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  • The Great Outdoors

    The Spats go on a camping trip that begins with the destruction of their cabin and ends with them being pursued by bandits, a railroad bull, and the police.

  • The Haunted Hotel; or, The Strange Adventures of a Traveler

    On a dark and stormy night, a traveler takes a room at a spooky hotel in the forest. As soon as the proprietor leaves, the room comes alive with ghosts and poltergeists who torment the man as he tries to unpack, eat, and go to sleep.

  • The Heart of Doreon

    Doreon, a French-Canadian trapper, is in love with Babette, but she favors bad-boy Blake, who has skipped town to avoid arrest. Doreon vows to find Blake and bring him back.

  • The Helpful(?) Sisterhood

    Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters.

  • The Last Cartridge, an Incident of the Sepoy Rebellion in India

    A group of British soldiers are caught off-guard by Indian mutineers during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. Their numbers dwindle until only the commander and his daughter are left alive. The only hope is that the man they sent out for reinforcement returns. Otherwise, the commander saves the last c...

  • The Last Man

    A man and a woman are captured by a mad scientist and kept like caged animals in his personal zoo in a South American jungle.

  • The Little Country Mouse

    Country girl May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué’s loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.

  • The Lost Messenger

    When her father dies of the plague, Kate sends her servant to Charles Clancy, in Africa catching animals for a circus, but the message is lost when Wamba is killed by a lion.

  • The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton

    Looking to shore up his failing practice, a small-town doctor hires a young assistant. An instant hit with the ladies of Cuddleton, they begin faking illness to attract the new doctor, little realizing that he is married.

  • The Making of a Man

    A girl falls in love with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe and the two elope, but her disapproving father annuls the marriage as she is still underage. The girl runs away before her father discovers that she is pregnant. The man is lead to believe that she is dead, and the girl as...

  • The Men Haters Club

    When a letter from another woman falls from her boyfriend’s pocket, Florence and her friends form the Men Haters Club. The boys quickly arrange into the Follow the Girls Club in the hopes of winning them back.

  • The Military Air-Scouts

    When war is declared between the United States and Europe in the future year of 1914, Lieutenant Wentworth accepts a hazardous air-scout commission.

  • The Mysterious Black Box

    Bill catches Fogg, his former boss, in a compromising situation with the stenographer, and Fogg did not fail to notice the small black box in Bill’s hands. Bill must have taken a picture, and Fogg is so focused on preventing that photo from reaching his wife that he fails to notice the romance bu...

  • The Pit and the Pendulum

    Pedro, jealous of Alonzo, joins the Spanish Inquisition to get rid of his rival.

  • The Power of Innocence

    Lucy leaves her small Indiana town to find employment in New York City where her naïveté may lead her to a life of prostitution.

  • The Runaway Coach

    A runaway stagecoach speeds along a dangerous mountain trail in this short home movie abridgment of Pioneer Trails.

  • The Sacrifice of Abraham

    God tests Abraham’s faith by demanding he sacrifice his only son, Isaac.

  • The Sawdust Ring

    Janet sets out to find her circus ringleader father, who her mother abandoned believing him to be unfaithful. Along the way, Janet and her friend Peter join Colonel Simmonds’s circus, she as a trick horse rider and he as a clown, but Janet cannot help but wonder why she finds Simmonds so familiar.

  • The Sawmill

    Dumb-bell Larry Semon gets into scrapes at the sawmill while the owner and his daughter are taken hostage by disgruntled former employees.

  • The Smoking Out of Bella Butts

    Anti-smoking campaigner Bella Butts enlists the help of the mayor’s wife to enact a ban on tobacco, much to the chagrin of the town’s cigar-addicted menfolk.

  • The Soilers

    In this parody of The Spoilers, Bob Canister strikes it rich in the Alaskan gold rush only to find himself plunged into a tumultuous battle with Smacknamara, a claim-jumper who, with the aid of the underhanded sheriff, has stolen Canister’s find.

  • The Step-Daughters

    Mr. Burton spends six years abroad as Consul to China, leaving his five daughters behind. He returns with a new wife but has forgotten that the girls have grown up and might not want a new mother.

  • The Timber Queen, ep. 12: The Abyss

    After the death of her lumberman father, Ruth Reading inherits one of the most valuable forests of the Far West. Her cousin, James Cluxton, hopes to exploit a strange provision of his uncle’s will to claim the forest for himself. In this episode, Ruth finds herself speeding to what could be an un...

  • The Victoria Cross

    Ellen’s father refuses to allow her to marry Lieutenant Cholmodeley until he has proved himself to be a brave soldier. When war breaks out between England and Russia, the Lieutenant is called to the Crimea and Ellen follows as a nurse under Florence Nightingale. There, she witnesses her lover cas...