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Dir: Charles Reisner

Arthur Wells (Syd Chaplin), an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to animals...tame or wild.

Dir: Charles Reisner

Lillian who owns a cat and dog store, "cans" Charlie, her clerk, when in an altercation with a street sweeper, a brick breaks the front window of the shop. Charlie then gets a job to post bills announcing a "Dog Show" in the Auditorium with $10,000 in cash prizes. While posting the bills, he notices Brownie and a pup and decides to enter pup for a prize. The dog show is a gala event. Lillian also enters a dog, her favorite poodle. She snubs Charlie when she sees him. Lillian's poodle is picked as a blue ribbon winner. Brownie grabs hold of him and hides him, substituting the pup in his stall. Villains enter to steal the prize dog and steal the pup. When Lillian comes to the dog's stall she finds him gone and is frantic Brownie produces the poodle for her and Lillian is overjoyed with Brownie and Charlie, his owner. Thus Charlie and Lillian are brought together again. The directors of the show decide that Brownie is a clever dog and award him first prize. Then Charlie and Lillian, being on an equal footing, get married and all seems to be well with them.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Blue Ribbon Mutt perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Manuel Noriega

A woman who arrives Madrid fleeing from their abusive stepmother tries to help her cousin, who has an illegitimate child, pretending to be the real mother.

Dir: Charles Reisner

The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Alma de Dios perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: James A. FitzPatrick

A Scots lass parts regretfully from her lad as he goes to make his mark in the world. The lad meets an old man who warns him against leaving his beloved. He returns to her and they are married. Then the old man, who loves the girl's mother, asks that she be his wife. Thereafter another marriage is arranged.

Dir: Mikhail Fokine

The last moments in the life of a swan.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Better 'Ole perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away.

Dir: Charles Reisner

Chuck is one of a band of fake cripples for whom the police are searching. He accepts employment with a taxidermist, who is disposing of illicit liquor through the medium of stuffed animals.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Songs of Scotland perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: James A. FitzPatrick

An innkeeper's daughter loves a shepherd boy and will not listen to her father's plea that she marry a rich young Londoner. The Londoner pleads with the girl, but she will not hear him. He goes back to London and the girl is happy with her shepherd.

Dir: Frank Urson

A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.