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Dir: Louis J. Gasnier

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

Dir: Frank Urson

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

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

Dir: Charles Reisner

A wealthy young man disguises himself as a gardener to be near the woman he secretly loves. He discovers that the butler is an enemy spy who plans to steal military secrets, and has to find a way to stop him.

Dir: Charles Reisner

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Man on the Box perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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

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.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

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

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

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.

Dir: Charles Reisner

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

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

Dir: Charles Reisner

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Charles Reisner

A greenhorn immigrant arrives and enters quarantine. Getting in is easy, but getting out is another thing. He makes several flying exits, but returns with equal velocity. While he is going from one department to another, like a regular immigrant, there are two assassins on his trail. They attempt to stab him, bomb him and in other ways to do away with him, but he outwits them with his lack of wits and manages, though not quite plausibly, to get into a closeup with a sweet little nurse who is kept busy around the place.