Cinematic Discoveries Resonating with the Themes of Uncle Tom Witho...

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Bobby hires himself out as a pet monkey to an organ grinder who has an attractive dancing girl for an assistant. A monkey of about Bobby's size and build escapes from a cage in the city hospital, where it was being held for an experimental operation. Bobby is taken for the escaped monkey and instead of giving him pennies, everyone runs away from him. Finally Bobby hides in the cage in the hospital that held the escaped monkey. He lands on the operating table, but an orderly breaks a tube of laughing gas and the operation has to be called off.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Heretofore running a shoe store has been considered a quiet, respectable business, but Ben and his partner make the interior of their emporium of fashionable footwear look like the finish to a feature number at a smart cabaret. They also put new life and the joy of winning into a gambling joint, until they are discovered cheating. This so shocks the proprietor and his regular customers that they lose their faith in human nature and send for the police. And so the merry game is kept up.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Convict 13 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.

Dir: Edward F. Cline

When a hotel orchestra leader starts to flirt with a girl in the audience, her fiancé is very displeased. Then the orchestra leader finds out that the hotel flower girl is really a rich heiress, and he shifts his attentions to her. Now the flower girl's boyfriend is unhappy, and soon there are even more complications.