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Doom of an Obsolete Coastal Fort

1924 • 1 min • United Kingdom

It looks so formidable, but the diver just fires the mine and up it goes like matehwood!

The Galloping Fish

1924 • 45 min

Freddy Wetherill and his bride, Hyla, quarrel at her mother's beach cottage, and Hyla sends her new husband home alone. Seeking distraction from his troubles, Freddy enters a vaudeville theater where Undine, "the diving Venus," and her trained seal, Bubbles, are performing. Outside the theater, Freddy meets Undine's fiancé, George Fitzgerald, and becomes involved in George's effort to hide Undine's seal from a bill collector armed with an order of attachment because of an unpaid hotel bill. Complications arise when Freddy Wetherill's dying rich uncle, Cato Dodd, notifies him that he wants Hyla to nurse him. To insure he stays in his uncle's will, Freddy substitutes Undine for Hyla and takes George along to act as his "valet." Naturally, Bubbles comes along, too. This movie is presumed to be lost.

The Stranger Of The North

1924 • 50 min • Canada

Laddie Ferguson arrives from overseas and gets work in a lumber camp in Nova Scotia. He becomes a rival with Ed Spencer for the hand of Mary, the foreman's daughter. Spencer is turned down and he calls a strike. Laddie calls upon the Cape Breton Highlanders, camped nearby, for assistance and they go to the camp and break up the strike, which clears the way for a happy future for Mary and Laddie.

Alice Gets in Dutch

1924 • 10 min • United States of America

Alice misbehaves in school and is forced to sit in the corner. She falls asleep and dreams, but schoolwork intrudes even into her dreams. Alice dreams of dancing dogs and donkeys until her fun is interrupted by three walking schoolbooks.

Black Oxfords

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

In this Mack Sennett comedy, a mother and daughter fear foreclosure because their mortgage payment is due and they're unable to pay it. Meanwhile, the family's son Jack, who's in prison, unexpectedly finds himself free of captivity.

The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece

1924 • 8 min • France

A documentary on the Olympic games of ancient Greece, made during the 1924 games.

Hold That Thought

1924 • 7 min • United States of America

Animals learn how to do tricks by concentrating. Eventually, Farmer Al Falfa wants to try.

Stupid, but Brave

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

Impoverished "bum" gets a close shave from a menacing barber, then gets tangled up with a banana king, escaped convicts and marathon runners.

George Washington, Jr.

1924 • 60 min

A senator is trying to get his niece to marry a foreign count. The senator's teenage son finds out that the count is not only a phony but an international criminal. The boy sets out to break up the impending marriage and save his father from ruin and his cousin from marrying a man she doesn't love.

The Danger Line

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

While her husband is away on a secret mission, the Marquise Yorisaka is Americanized by Mrs. Hockey and becomes the object of Captain Fergan's affections. Warned of the captain's activities, the marquis obtains a post for him on his battleship and forces him to take command when he himself is wounded. The death of the captain brings about a reconciliation of the couple and resumption of a life in keeping with their tradition.

Up and at 'Em

1924 • 10 min

A 'Dippy Doo Dad' comedy with an all-animal cast.

Three Miles Out

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

Molly Townsend is on the eve of her marriage to Luis Riccardi, a steamship man who secretly is a bootlegger. She follows John Locke, the man she really loves, on a steamship bound for Rio. He is thrown overboard, leaving her at the mercy of a crew full of bad men. She is nearly their victim when she is rescued by John and her mother. When the police come aboard, the leader of the band reveals the true character of Riccardi, leaving Molly and John happy together.

The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu

1924 • 30 min • United Kingdom

Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.

Romeo and Juliet

1924 • 10 min • United States of America

A burlesque of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy.

Brother's Heart

1924 • 59 min • Italy

The Garden of Weeds

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

The title refers to the estate owned by Flagg, a man of great wealth and few morals. He installs chorus girls there until he grows tired of them

The Goofy Age

1924 • 20 min • United States of America

The hero's loved one is threatened with marriage with a rival, due to the machinations of her mother. The simplest solution of the situation is to marry her, and upon being reminded of it, the hero lays plans for a hurried ceremony in the goldfish store where he works. But as it is a case of true love, things don't move smoothly. Customers interrupt and so forth, as the justice of the peace tries to spiel off the fateful words. The culminating disaster is when firemen smash in the door, but a simple solution presents itself and the lovers, justice of the peace and witnesses make off with the hook and ladder wagon and the knot is tied before they are caught.

Robes of Sin

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

Ruth Rogens (Sylvia Breamer) is married to policeman John Rogens (Jack Mower), whose work causes him to neglect her. Her neighbor Adelaide Thomas (Gertrude Astor), the mistress of bootlegger Cyler Bryson (Bruce Gordon),invites her out on a party and loans her a gown. Before long, Cyler, the cad, is buying Ruth fancy clothes and forgets about Adelaide. The latter, in revenge, leads Cyler's wife Grace (Helene Sullivan), to believe that Ruth is her husband's mistress. John makes a raid on the bootlegger's warehouse and finds his wife in Cycler's company at a roadhouse.

Blackpool Promenade

1924 • 12 min • United Kingdom

This captivating early film - by an unknown filmmaker - offers a glimpse of glorious Blackpool and the many delights it offers holidaymakers.

The Man Without a Heart

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

When Rufus Asher suspects that Barbara Wier is plotting with his sister's husband, Edmund Hyde, he abducts Barbara and takes her to a lonely mountain retreat. Mistaking Rufus for a vagabond, Barbara shoots him, then nurses him back to health, explaining that she and Edmund were trying to stop an elopement of Edmund's wife with another man, Hugh Langley.

The Story Without a Name

1924 • 60 min • United States of America

Alan Holt is a radio expert who has invented a death ray machine for the U.S. government. International spy Drakma wants to get his hands on the invention and he sends his henchmen to attack Holt in his laboratory.

Hold Your Breath

1924 • 31 min • United States of America

When her newspaper reporter brother is taken ill, a young woman takes over his job. Before she knows it, she's involved up to her neck in a plot involving stolen jewelry and a very agile monkey.

Hot Stuff

1924 • 7 min • United States of America

In the 16th episode of Hal Roach's Spat Family series, the Spats order a fire engine from a mail catalogue-- and soon they'll need it!

Wonderful London: Known London

1924 • 11 min • United Kingdom

A whirlwind tour of London's best-loved visitor attractions, bustling thoroughfares and public spaces, including Threadneedle, Bond and Fleet Streets, Cheapside, the Strand and Piccadilly Circus, amongst others.