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- A street corner fast-pitch salesman for something called "Hoak" stops a girl walking by to give his spiel. The miraculous attributes of "Hoak" would seem to cover just about anything you'd want, and the girl, though skeptical, samples some of the wondrous medicine. Unfortunately, he gives her the wrong pill, and she becomes a limp-jointed ventriloquist dummy, complete with a strikingly silly/scary wide-eyed expression. The man puts her on his knee and they do a ventriloquism act. (The "dummy" voice is obviously coming from off screen).
- Vaudeville stars Weber and Fields perform their famous pool hall routine in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- Russian ballet company Le Chauve-Souris, led by Nikita Balieff, performs "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", part of their Broadway show.
- Film produced by the Cuban government, which was released in October 1926 in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, and which was the first sound film made in Cuba.
- Spanish dancer Conchita Piquer performs in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech nominating New York governor Al Smith as candidate for President at the Democratic national convention in New York City on 26 June 1924.
- The cathedral scene from Shaw's famous play.
- Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Vaudeville stars Sammy Fain and Artie Dunn perform their song-and-dance act in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Former U.S. senator Chauncey Depew, age 91, gives his recollections of President Abraham Lincoln in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- U.S. senator Robert LaFollette, running for President on the Progressive Party ticket in 1924, gives a campaign speech in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Married vaudeville stars Eva Puck and Sammy White perform excerpts of their act for a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Poet and writer Edwin Markham recites his poem "Lincoln, the Man of the People" written in 1900 and presented at the opening ceremonies of the Lincoln Memorial on 30 May 1922.
- Famous African-American singer Abbie Mitchell sings in an early experimental film made in the DeForest Phonofilm process.
- Modern dance group Sonia Serova Dancers perform to Grieg's song "To Spring" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Lee De Forest appears in an early film made in his DeForest Phonofilm process, discussing how the sound-on-film process works.
- Vaudeville stars Jack Pearl and Ben Bard perform one of their routines.
- Brooke Johns sings and plays ukulele and Goodee Montgomery sings and dances in this rendition of the song "I'm in Love Again" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Demonstration film of Henry Cass filmed by Lee DeForest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film system on 12 April 1923 and premiered at the Engineers Society Auditorium in New York City on 15 April 1923.