Visionary Picks In Alignment with the style of Monkey Stuff: Cult G...

Dir: William Campbell

Snooky lives with a family and when one of the children is carried off by an escaped bunch of balloons Snooky goes about rescuing the baby from multiple dangerous situations.

Dir: William Campbell

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Campbell

In Babyland the babies are made of clay and baked in ovens until done. When they are overdone they come out brown, and when they are burnt, as it sometimes happens when the elves play a little game of African golf, then the babies come out Black. But they all seem just as happy regardless of the shade of their skin. The master of the factory keeps a stock room and in each pigeon hole he has a child. They are classified, indexed, and ready for delivery, so that when a little boy asks his mother for a brother he can get permission to call up on the 'phone and the master will deliver by stork. But this time the stork makes a mistake and picks a Black one instead of a white, which causes much trouble. The master himself rides a high-wheel bike through the air, overtakes the stork, and sees that the right baby is delivered.

Dir: William Campbell

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Campbell

A young girl, with the aid of a sagacious monk, saves a baby heiress from the evil designs of two villainous kidnappers, and smuggles the infant to New York aboard a freight train, to secure the fortune.

Dir: William Campbell

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

A rare film from C.L. Chester Productions. The wealthy and now-dead Mr. P. Nutt, in revenge upon his, bequeaths estate to his lovely niece-on the condition she marry a genius whom the world calls crazy. The search is on for a crazy genius.

Dir: William Campbell

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: William Campbell

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Tray Full of Trouble perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Jackie and Tom are assistants in a nursery. Their job is to take care of the babies which tired mothers leave there while doing their shopping. Their duties are numerous, for the nursery is equipped with cubby-holes in which each baby is stored and a machine which bathes and dresses the infants. -The Mayor lives next door to the nursery and the noise and the tricks which Jack and Tom play on him annoys him so that he decides to spend the rest of the summer at Restwell Springs. Hardly has he become settled there before the nursery forces, accompanied by a few of the babies, arrive on the scene. Jack and Tom don't lose any time in starting mischief. Finally the Mayor in desperation calls the council together and proposes an ordinance prohibiting babies being born under twenty years of age. Their deliberations are interrupted by the kids, who have succeeded In substituting a hornet's nest for a roast and the hornets successfully break up the meeting. The Mayor chases the kids into the woods. Determined on revenge they procure a bear skin and attempt to frighten the Mayor who sees through the trick and lays for them with his cane. But a real bear emerges from the woods and chases the Mayor back to the hotel. The sick guests of the sanitarium suddenly regain their health and discard wheelchairs and crutches in a wild scramble for safety. The bear follows and soon clears out the hotel. Jackie and Tom are enjoying the fun hugely when the bear catches sight of them. They climb into their daschund-o-mobile but the dog refuses to pull until he sees the bear headed for them and then he dashes off down the road at express-train speed.

Dir: William Campbell

A group of children put on an imitation circus in the backyard.

Dir: William Campbell

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.