After being passed over in the succession, Absalom rebels and raises an army to depose his father, King David.

During the Mexican Revolution, a female spy for the Mexican guerrilla fighters falls in love with an American lieutenant. When he is captured and threatened with execution, she turns to the Americans for help by climbing a telegraph pole, tapping the wire, and sending out a distress call.

Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her up, a fight breaks out in the engine, imperiling everyone aboard the train.

Algie must prove himself to be a man before his sweetheart’s father will consent to their marriage. He travels west to become a miner under the tutelage of Big Jim but it is not long before Big Jim comes to rely on Algie as much as Algie does on him.

Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father’s rich friend.

On their honeymoon, Tammas and Mary have a bit too much to drink. The next thing they know, they are crash landing a balloon on a South Sea island. They are swarmed by cannibals, but the menacing headhunters back away in awe when Tammas begins playing his enchanted bagpipes.

Two Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives meet in a head-on collision in this 1904 short.

A thief notices a large amount of money in a woman’s purse when she opens it to pay her cab driver. He follows her onto the train and waits for her to doze off before snatching the cash. When she wakes up, finds her purse empty, and sees that the man is the only other person in the compartment, t...

Ira and his son-in-law Harry pretend to enlist in the 13th regiment where they have “drills” every Friday night. When the 13th is called to the front, the two take a fishing trip, only to learn that “their” regiment has been wiped out.

A listless patrician in Rome is awakened by the love of a dancing slave, angering his jealous wife.

Lucie Manette discovers that her father is not dead, as she had always believed. He has just been released from the Bastille, where for decades he was being held for offending the Marquis St. Evrémonde. A short time later, Lucie meets and falls in love with Charles Darnay. The two marry, with Luc...

A fortune hunter is thwarted in his scheme to marry an heiress and becomes a beachcomber in the Philippines. When he learns that she is on her way to Manila, he takes desperate measures to get rid of his Filipino wife.

A dog unites a man and a woman at the beach and reunites them when they grow jealous of the picture in each other’s locket.

A wagon train of pioneers is ambushed by hostile Indians in this short home movie abridgment of Pioneer Trails.

Poor Jaime goes to sea to earn enough money to marry Jenny, where he is believed to be lost. Left to support her parents, Jenny is persuaded to marry old Robin Gray.

Rich Auntie Flora sends a portrait of herself to her niece and nephew-in-law, who consign it to the attic as Auntie is not expected to visit any time soon. When she arrives unannounced the next day, they have to scramble to hang the picture on the wall, lest they offend Auntie and risk being left...

A staged robbery to win over his girlfriend’s father goes horribly wrong for Larry.

A woman tries to break into being a stage hand at Charlie’s studio by disguising herself as a man. Meanwhile, hostile strikers plan to blow up the set.

Latude effects escape after legendary escape while he is pursued by Siki for stealing all the farm’s eggs in this early Dippy-Doo-Dad comedy with an all-animal cast.

Jerusalem is in a state of rebellion against its Roman overlords. During a Roman procession, Judah Ben Hur wounds Valerius Gratus when he accidentally shakes loose a roof tile and it falls on the procurator. Messala — once Ben Hur’s friend, now a Roman legionary — betrays him and he is sent to th...

Billy tries to win over his girlfriend’s father, who imagines himself to be a great hunter, by disguising himself as a man-eating bear.

Blackbeard and his pirates sack the island of Martinique, forcing the governor to walk the plank and making a prisoner of his wife.

After being stiffed on the laundry bill, washerwoman Kate hijacks Tim’s hansom cab in lieu of payment, although her driving skills prove to be somewhat lacking.

The enchantment of Cinderella’s fairy godmother allows her to attend the Prince’s ball but the spell is broken at midnight. In her haste to flee, Cinderella loses a slipper. The Prince, having fallen in love with the mysterious lady, vows to wed whosever foot fits the lost slipper.