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- Two love triangles intersect in ancient Pompei.
- Set in Sardinia, a barren and disconsolate land, where Rosalia, a poor young mother, entrusts her only son, Anania, to the natural father, who is well-off and already married. The years pass. Rosalia ages in misery, Anania becomes an adult and is about to marry. He returns to the country in order to find his mother and invite her to the wedding, but his fiancée does not appreciate this. Rosalia is abandoned once again...
- This is a bitter satire on the officials in a small place. A pair of legs is seen sticking out of water by a fisherman; he does nothing, but with immense fury summons aid, who in turn do nothing, but go for more help. At last there are men, women, gendarmes with drawn swords, a fire engine and even the Mayor, all gazing. Their united courage drags the body out only to discover it's a tailor's advertisement.
- Episode 2: "Zingo and the White Elephant" Zingo and his wife, Sari, who are returning from their adventures in Mexico, when Zingo learns from his newspaper that the Royal Elephant of Siam has been stolen and for whose return a large reward will be paid. Not content with settling down to a quiet domestic life, he persuades Sari and his good crew to aid him in finding this white elephant. In the Royal Square of the Capitol of Siam, he reviews the troops which are all comprised of women, which is the custom there. The Prime Minister bids Zingo and his men to visit the Royal Harem. Here they are captured by the troops and are about to be tortured to death when Sari, disguised as a colonel in the army, aids them in escaping. They find the province of Chokuff where the white elephant has been secreted, and catching the Prince making love to Sari, they demand the white elephant. He promises, but traps them all in his dungeon. They are all, but Zingo, placed in barrels with their heads protruding. Zingo files away the bars of his cage, and rolls the barrels by the guards, who are in a stupor from opium smoking. He swims down the river, towing his crew in the barrels. After a fierce encounter with the Prince of Chokuff's army, he attacks the Royal barge in the Blud River, and after a bitter struggle in which he disposes of the entire crew by throwing them overboard, he captures the white elephant and recovers his faithful Sari. He returns the sacred elephant to the King of Siam, and after a big reception by royalty and the populace, Zingo is awarded rich treasures for his noble work. Episode 3: "Zingo in Africa" After returning from Asia with his jolly band of tars, laden with gold and precious stones as a reward for his clever work in recovering the Sacred White Elephant of Siam, Zingo thought he would never again feel the call of the sea, and he didn't for several months. But the wanderlust fever soon returned, and taking his wife as his sole companion, he set out for the wilds of Africa in search of fresh adventures. From this point on, let us follow Zingo down the Nile, and record his hairbreadth escapes. Selecting a likely spot, Zingo and Sari, his wife, make camp. Hearing piercing shrieks just back of their tent, they don bear skins and hasten to the spot in time to prevent the execution of two beautiful native girls by a band of savages. The two girls now become members of Zingo's party, happy to serve their gallant protector. The next day Zingo puts on his armored hunting suit to battle with hungry lions, who have been prowling about the camp. After an hour's terrific struggle with a pair of lions, Zingo returns to find his party gone, and many evidences of a struggle. Suspecting that they have been kidnapped by roving gorillas, Zingo sets off through the forest and eventually comes to the bottom of a large tree sheltering the crudely made gorilla nest. Having a smattering of monkey chatter, he quickly gains an entrance to the nest, and there discovers his wife and the girls more frightened than harmed. The good-natured gorillas listen attentively while Zingo explains that they must proceed up the Nile in their power boat, and they bid the party an affectionate farewell. During an inspection of the Pyramids, Zingo and his party encounter some knavish artists, who drug him and make love to Sari and the native girls. Zingo is boxed up and sold to a London professor as a rare specimen, and does not regain his senses until weeks later. After startling the assembled professors out of their wits, he charters an aeroplane and flies back to Egypt overnight in time to punish the cringing artists and save Sari and her servants from further insult. Then with a last fond look down the Nile River, Zingo and his party board the aeroplane and sail back to Paris. Episode 4: "Zingo's War in the Clouds" Zingo, while working and studying over the prospectus of the Eldorado Mine in his library in Paris, is visited by his faithful crew, who are restless from lying in port and beg of him to put to sea in search of new adventures. Zingo agrees to their proposal, and decides to submit a gigantic scheme to the Eldorado Directorate for working their mine. Arriving in Mexico, he finds the mine operators are entertaining a scheme presented to them by one, Fileas Fogg. Zingo exposes Fogg's crookedness and is awarded the contract for working the mine. In order to study the country around the mines, Zingo and his wife, Sari, erect huts in a nearby river to live in. Fogg, enraged at Zingo for exposing him, with the aid of a savage Indian tribe, attacks Zingo in his river home, and after a thrilling encounter, captures Zingo and Sari. They are bound hand and foot and told they are to be executed the next morning. A pretty Indian girl sets Zingo free in the night, and rides off with him. Zingo calls on the Federal army and is honored by being given the rank of commanding officer, After reviewing his troops and submarine guards. Zingo attacks Fogg's troops, who use chloroform bombs and a special pneumatic sucker to repel his army. Zingo's submarine troops attack Fogg's deep water divers and after a severe encounter in the depths, Zingo's men are victorious. Vanquished under the sea, Fogg takes refuge in a huge motor balloon with Sari still in his power. After a most thrilling battle in which a dozen types of balloons are used, Zingo's dirigible manages to catch Fogg, and after transferring Sari, he cuts the ropes suspending the basket from the bag, and Fogg drops into eternity. Zingo sights his yacht directly below him and by lowering a rope and making it fast to the mast, they all descend and are joyously received by the crew. Zingo promises all to return home after settling up his business affairs in Mexico.
- Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But a love affair with a handsome Greek whom she meets in Byzantium leads to revolution and armed conflict in both Byzantium and Rome.
- Lieut. Rodolfi is very much in love with the Captain's daughter, who is, however, jealously guarded by her parent. Rodolfi is invited to tea by the lady, the Captain being expected to go out. To deepen the impression he hopes to make, the Lieutenant confines his somewhat corpulent figure in a pair of lady's corsets, which he finds extremely uncomfortable. Further annoyance awaits him at the Captain's house. His superior officer is at home, and Rodolfi is compelled to invent a story to account for his presence. While the Captain has left the room temporarily, Rodolfi hurriedly removes the painful corsets and hides them under a cushion. When the Captain's daughter enters she discovers them, and accuses her father of a love affair, flinging out of the house in a rage. The Captain implores Rodolfi to follow and pacify her, and the Lieutenant follows the lady. It takes him quite two hours to bring her to reason, and both the young people look happy when they return, after an enjoyable tete-a-tete dinner; but the Captain is satisfied as thing more is said about the corsets.
- A four chapter film including Satan vs the Creator, Satan vs the Saviour, The Green Demon/Satan during the Dark Ages and The Red Demon/Satan in modern times.
- A jailer is saved from financial embarrassment by his friend the engineer. The latter mistakes a railroad signal, causing a wreck, for which he is sent to prison, and finds himself in charge of his friend. The engineer's wife becomes very ill and his daughter writes him a pathetic letter which he shows to the jailer, who releases him for one night and the engineer reaches home in time to hold his wife in his arms as she expires.
- A sculptor leaves his model alone in his atelier. After initially being afraid of being alone in the atelier, the model falls asleep. In her dreams, the faun statue that is also present in the atelier comes to life. The two fall in love.
- Count Almaviva, the well known hero of Rossini's Barber of Seville, after the romantic marriage with Rossini, the ward of Doctor Bartolo, of which that opera treats, had settled down quietly upon his estates. Figaro, the barber has been awarded the post of major-domo of the castle by the Count for past services. Figaro, while in his new station, had conceived a passion for Susanne, the pretty and cunning waiting woman of the Countess, and they were shortly to be married. Unfortunately for the gay ex-barber, he had, while in a state of less prosperity, given a written promise to an old but rich spinster Marcellina, to marry her on a certain day, upon which promise he had been furnished with various snug sums by the would-be Mrs. Figaro. When fortune smiled upon him, however, he forgot his old attachment entirely, and by an ill choice, fixed the date of his union with Susanne on the same day on which he was to have married Marcellina. This venerable dame, with the assistance of Doctor Bartolo, who owed Figaro an old grudge on account of his ward Rosina, who had been snatched from him principally through the instrumentality of the barber, made secret preparations to interrupt the nuptial festivities with a tremendous thunder shower. The Count since he enjoyed the quiet possession of his most excellent wife began more attentions on the female portion of his household, particularly on Susanne than were absolutely necessary, evincing at the same time an unreasonably jealous disposition towards the Countess. The Count had in his services a lad, by the name of Cherubino, a young scapegoat, passionately found of the opposite sex, always in love, in truth a Don giovanni in embryo. This Berubino, when our story opens, under orders to leave for the army immediately, in punishment for a misdemeanor of which he had been guilty. Figaro, who was extremely annoyed by his master's behavior, towards Susanne, and truly sorry for his groundless jealousy towards the Countess, bethought himself of a plan to bring the Count back into the bounds of propriety. In the first place, he sent a letter to the Count informing him that the Counts is had made an appointment to meet somebody at the evening's ball. Arousing thus the Count's suspicion and disturbing his peace of mind, Fiagano calculated better to prepare him for the snare which had been laid. Susanne was to get a message to the Count that she would meet him in the Garden that night. Cherubino, kept back in the castle against the Count's orders was to act Susanne's part and the Countess to surprise the frail husband with the supposed Susanne. In order to effect the necessary transformation for his character, Cherubino was admitted to the room of the Countess, where Susanne under the superintendence of the Countess began to make the change of wardrobe necessary. While this was going on and Susanne had just stepped out into her room- to the left- to take away the page's coat and fetch him one of her dresses, the Count tried to gain access by the principal - middle - entrance, and finding this locked - an occurrence against all precedents - he began to knock vehemently. Cherubino quickly fled into the chamber of the Countess- to the right and the Countess opened the door. The Count who had just received Figaro's anonymous letter, could not help noticing the confusion of the Countess. He had heard voices in the room when he approached it. The Countess protested that she was talking to herself. The Count showed her Figaro's letter. Here unfortunately Cherubino in the adjoining chamber upset a chair. Up started the Count, demanding who was in there. Nobody but Susanna insisted the Countess. The Count called to Susanne to come out, his wife commanded her to stay in. But Susanne was listening from the door opposite to these strange proceedings and of course came not, nor the frightened page. At last The Count went out to get a crowbar with which to open the door of the cabinet, the Countess accompanying him. He securely fastened the middle door after their exit. Now, Susanne quickly released the page, got him his coat, made him jump out of the window which opened upon the garden and then went herself into the chamber just quieted by Cherubino. When the Count and Countess returned and the Count had wrung from his wife the confession that the page was there, half undressed, the sudden appearance of Susanne in the door of the apartment took both by surprise. But the Countess quickly gained her composure and the two women now turned the table upon the Count who ruefully asked his wife's forgiveness for his unjust suspicions. The Countess granted it in good grace. Figaro came in, to accompany Susanne to the wedding. A little while after him, as his unlucky starts would have it, Antonio, the gardener half intoxicated, made his appearance in the room. He insisted he must see his master. He wanted to lodge a complaint against someone who had jumped out of the Countess' window, broken some of the flower pots and escaped through the garden. Figaro with great difficulty quieted the Count's newly arisen suspicions by avowing himself the culprit. At this moment, Marcellina, duly accompanied by her counsel, appeared and lodged a complaint with the Count against Figaro for breach of promise. Almaviva, inwardly rejoicing at the turn affairs took and thinking to profit by it, evinced great interest in the case. When it came to the trial, however, it was dis covered that Figaro was the child of Marcellina and Doctor Bartolo, by which timely discovery every obstacle to Figaro's and Susanne's union was removed. Accordingly, the festivities took their course. In the meanwhile Susanne upon the advice of the Countess, and without the knowledge of her betrothed, carried on the intrigue originally plotted by Figaro. She sought an interview with the Count and expressed her willingness to conform to his wishes. Afterwards, she wrote a note to him dictated by the Countess appointing time and place of a meeting. Of this appointment Figaro, through the simplicity of a peasant girl entrusted with the Count's answer to Susanne got wind and forthwith collected a number of stout villagers who were to administer to the Count a sound cudgeling under cover of the darkness. When evening came around, the two ladies, the Countess dressed as Susanne and Susanne dressed as the Countess, repaired to the spot appointed in the letter, a secluded part of the park with a pavilion on either side. Figaro lay already in waiting, of which the ladies were well aware. Susanne then withdrew into the shade of the thicket leaving her mistress alone waiting for the Count. Suddenly Cherubino came in who, it seems had made an engagement with Barbarina, the Garnder's daughter on the same spot. Mistaking the Countess for Susanne he dallied with her, kissing her much against her will, till at last the Count interfered when the boy ran into the pavilion to the left where Barbarina was already waiting for him. The Countess now received graciously by the passionate wards of her husband, intended for Susanne. Figaro, who was duped as much as the Count, then made a noise and the Count sent the supposed Susanne into the pavilion on the right expecting to join her ere long, Susanne managed to meet Figaro. But the cunning barber soon looked through her disguise and then took an active part in the joke, by addressing her as the Countess in passionate language. This was well done for the Count overheard him and seized him by the collar. Susanne ran into the pavilion at the left. The Count then without releasing his hold on Figaro, called his servants and guests, who came in large numbers with lights and torches and bade them be witness of his dishonor. After disposing of the Cherubino and Barbarina, who were also in the left hand pavilion, he dragged out the supposed Countess, who fell down on her knees before him, imploring his forgiveness. But the Count acted the part of the enraged husband in good earnest. Suddenly the real Countess appeared from the pavilion on the right. Before the Count could fully realize his awkward position, the Countess, with the assistance of Susanne and Figaro, hushed matters up and hurried the witnesses of this most extraordinary denouement off to the festivities in honor of Figaro's marriage, which were going on in the castle. The Count must be supposed to be forever healed from his jealousy and become more faithfully attached than ever before to his Rosina.
- Aeneas and his companions, flying from the destruction of Troy, are stranded on the coast of Africa and captured by Amazons, and brought before Dido, Queen of Carthage, who is greatly struck with the bearing of Aeneas; finally choosing him as her husband, and rejecting the offer of a neighboring king. War follows, Dido's army is defeated, and Aeneas, obeying a vision, secretly embarks with his friends for Rome, leaving Dido to confront the angry populace.
- The city of Naples is in the grasp of the plague, and the terrified people are mowed down by the awful disease. The king with his court flees to a distant castle, where death is mockingly defied, behind locked doors. Death, a shadowy specter, carrying his scythe, stalks into the castle, presenting a weird and awe-inspiring sight, and casts the plague upon all except a poor woman and her two little children, whose pleadings moved the king to take them along, and who, alone, prayed to be spared.
- The Story of the gallant knight Sir Parsifal (Percival) of Arthur's Round Table and his quest to find the Holy Grail.
- Pantea, a famous courtesan, wins Orseola away from a dogeress who loves him madly. The dogeress in revenge invokes the aid of a famous sorceress, who molds a wax image and by the power of witchcraft causes pain to Pantea as the figure is pierced with pins and otherwise tortured. The dogeress in her unreasoning resentment and rage finally decides, through the figure, to burn Pantea, but to her horror discovers that Orseola suffers with her. The lovers are incinerated in a spectacular blaze of fire, and the dogeress, overcome with the enormity of her action, falls lifeless.
- Tweedledum is witness of a boxing bout between a white man and a [black man], in which the latter is successful, and, full of anger at the indignity to his own race, the comedian challenges the black [man] to a fight to a finish, and straightway goes into training. His work with the ball is so heavy that he shatters the walls of his gymnasium, punches off the head of inoffensive pedestrians, causes others to explode by a terrific body blow, sends a tram hustling back the way it has come by a sturdy thump, and when he gets into the ring causes the [man] to shrink with fear, and easily puts him out.
- A young man named Leandro tries to force himself onto his love interest, but she already has another man, and while escaping punishment for his rushed actions, he enters an alchemist's house and releases the lame devil that was being held there. Together they make some mischief.
- This film shows the realistic battle scenes of the Siege of Moscow, with the sensational defeat of Napoleon, with the belching cannon, the battling soldiers, scenes of heroism and daring reproduced in the most exquisite photography.
- In the year 1522, Soliman, Sultan of Turkey, decided to take complete possession of the Island of Rhodes, so strongly guarded for many centuries and through many wars by the valiant Knights who were of the highest nobles of Europe. Before assaulting the strongly defended Island, Soliman sent an intimation to the defenders notifying them of his intention and asking for the peaceful surrender of Rhodes. Their answer was a flat refusal. The Great Master of the Knights of Rhodes, the Frenchman Philip Villier de l'Isle Adam, a nobleman very well trained in the use of arms, sent to the Sultan one of his Knights, the Venitian Andrea Vendrann a clever young man and a good politician,to discuss this matter and try to dissuade Soliman from his designs against the Island. Vendrann was affianced to a beautiful girl Marina who also resided in Rhodes, and with great sorrow they parted. Vendrann was kindly received by the Sultan and although the refusal of the Knights had angered him, still he was very courteous to his visitor and displayed all the splendors of his palace and all the numerous ships of wear which were ready to invade Rhodes. While thus engaged, a message was handed to Soliman stating that the pirates had laid siege to a village in Rhodes and that many prisoners and slaves had been taken. Soliman asked to see them hoping that seeing the prisoners would frighten Andrea. Great was Vendrann's sorry when among the captives he discovers his fiance Marina, but knowing well the sentiments of the Sultan he stifles his grief so as not to awaken any suspicion, and his one desire now was the freedom of Marina. Soliman, fascinated by the beauty of the young girl, and not knowing of the relations existing between Andrea And Marina, informed him of his intention to take her into his harem. Among the wives of the Sultan was one called Cadina, who seeing the new arrival, became intensely jealous and tried to kill her but was prevents# by the intervention of Soliman who made her kneel down in front of Marina. Vendrann was informed by a faithful slave of all the happenings in the harem, and from the garden he threw a note into Cadina's room proposing to steal Marina and soliciting her aid. Cadina, only too willing to dispose of her rival, answered in the affirmative, and at night allowed him to enter a small pavilion. In the meantime the Sultan had desired to approach Marina, and while he was on his way to her Vendrann from his hiding place, stealthily approached and the Sultan taken unaware was completely overcome by him. Andrea then escaped with Marina to the sea where a sailing boat had been in waiting for them. Furious, indeed, was Soliman and he again sent a message requesting the surrender of Rhodes and also the return of Marina, but once more was answered in the negative. Preparations were then started to strengthen the defenses of the Island by the Knights. The Turks arrived in a body of 100,000 and besieged the town in which the Knights and the inhabitants had taken refuge. For six months the Island of Rhodes held out against their attack, and wonderful indeed wore their deeds of bravery and courage. During this time of hardship Marina, now married to Andrea, had dedicated herself to nurse the wounded, but the day at length arrived when further resistance was impossible, and the brave Knights were compelled to surrender their long cherished land to the Turks. Suffering from the hardships and self-sacrifice of these long months, Marina's health at last gave way and she died in the arms of her husband before the Turks took possession of Rhodes. Before leaving the island forever, Andrea requested the Sultan to allow him to give burial to the body of his beloved wife, but Soliman not having forgotten nor forgiven the insult he received a few months before, ordered his soldiers to assault the church where Andrea and a few others were with the body, and they lay fire to the place, the Knights being killed one by one by the cruel arrows of Soliman's servants.