The Speed Spook

A Howling Success(en)

Fair Warning(en)

Gussle Rivals Jonah(en)

Gussle Rivals Jonah is a silent comedy

P.D.Q.(en)

In a bicycle race, Lee is continually stopping to help the girls, and when overtaken by the other riders, he leaps upon his trick bike and passes ahead of them.

Mickey's Battle(en)

A bantamweight boxer has moved to Toonerville with his sissy-looking but well-trained son. When he gets into a dispute with Mickey Maguire, nothing will settle the matter but a meeting in the squared ring.

Roaming Romeo(en)

Mickey's Little Eva(en)

Mickey McGuire is putting on a bad performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but first he has to deal with the competition; another boy is putting on a wild animal show -- house cats inflamed by the "tamer" having white mice in his trousers.

The Smart Set(en)

A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.

Satan in Prison(fr)

The title is vital, since the bulk of the action consists of a well-dressed man magically producing a series of items to furnish a bare room, culminating in his summoning up a charming lady to share his meal. Hearing the guards approaching, the man reverses the process, ending with a bare room when the two men enter.

Laughing Gas(en)

A woman goes to the dentist for a toothache and is given gas. On her way home on the subway she can't stop laughing, and every other passenger catches the laughter from her.

Female Conscripts(de)

A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited.

Scullion's Dream(fr)

When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work.

The Puppet's Nightmare(fr)

A nightmare, sketched out upon a living blackboard.

Drama at the Puppets' House(fr)

For a short comedy of rare merit this subject is unexcelled. A chalk line series of grotesque caricatures enacted in the land of puppets. A fickle maiden gets herself into numerous embarrassing complications with her host of admirers, but the artist with lightning rapidity overcomes all obstacles and brings the maiden out victorious.

The White Suit(fr)

The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him.

Les malheurs d'un photographe(fr)

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

The Chinese Shadows(fr)

At the beginning of this film two women come onstage dressed in Oriental fashion. They present a shadow play theatre.

Whimsical People(fr)

A moon-woman shakes a Pierot costume and manifests a Pierot clown. She does this four more until there are five Pierots crowded on the ledge of the moon. They fall to the earth and dance like tops turning one by one into Columbine maidens.

French Cops Learning English(fr)

The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.

In a Difficult Position(fr)

Max, a young man about town, splits his trousers while getting ready to go out one night. After applying some rather risky repairs without taking the trousers off, he gingerly heads off to a dinner party. Of course, disaster strikes almost as soon as he arrives, and he spends the rest of the film frantically attempting to hide the gaping tear in his trousers from the other guests.