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- Wealthy French farmer Lucien D'Artois (Adolphe Menjou) is fond of raising horses and married to Germaine (Virginia Valli), according to the terms of a marriage contract. When she finds his rustic interests unbearable, she leaves him. Determined to become a polished Parisian, Lucien goes to the city and diligently studies fencing and dancing but is unable to gain her favor. He embarks on a life of frivolity and free spending and to demonstrate his powers with women, he deliberately steals nightclub girl Fox Trot (Louise Brooks) from Lazarre (Noah Beery). Eventually Lucien's fortune is drained and everything he owns is seized except a suit of evening clothes. Living by his wits, Lucien imagines himself still a popular, wealthy count and returning to his bare flat. To his surprise, Germaine has returned to him.
- Eugenicist Harry J. Haiselden warns a young couple who are considering marriage that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly, and floats up into heaven.
- Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice, who is taken away from him by Al, who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.
- The Little Tramp pretends to be a dentist. A patient can't stop laughing from the anesthesia so Charlie knocks him out. At a drug store, he fights with a man who becomes another patient and pulls the skirt off the dentist's wife.
- The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will initiate the run for the best fields and claims.
- Brooke Travers, a young society man of a roving disposition and much leisure, gets into a cab with his valet and his trunks, to go to his yacht for a cruise. Arriving at the pier, the cabman demands an exorbitant charge for his fare, and, upon Travers resenting the charge, he is again soaked by the cabman, this time with his capable fists. Travers strikes back, and the cabman falls, his head hitting a curbstone. The ambulance surgeon arrives, pronounces the man dying, and advises Travers to flee. Taking the advice and the cab, Travers and his valet hasten for another wharf, and take ship for Central America. As they are landing at the little port of Porto Banos, the consul of that place, who is also an instigator of revolutions, offers to let Travers take his credentials and pose as Dictator in his place, pretending to be afraid of the yellow fever, but really because he has learned of a new revolution, and is afraid of his life. Travers, fearing the law is already on his track, eagerly accepts the offer, and goes ashore as the new Dictator. Then things happen with marvelous celerity, and Travers becomes the center of a small cyclone of trouble, the chief factors of which are the opposing faction of the revolution, the wife of the consul, a vengeful former sweetheart of the latter, and a pretty young missionary, with whom Travers has fallen desperately in love. How he finally comes unscathed from his many perils, and wins his lady love, form an interesting denouement.
- A woman finds herself torn between two men-her devoted partner and a passionate admirer. Consumed by jealousy and despair, the admirer commits a violent act that leads to fatal consequences, illustrating the destructive power of obsessive love.
- Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.
- The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cradle and decides to replace the departed soul with an orphan child upon whom she can lavish the love, the rightful object of which the Great Giver and Taker has taken from her. She goes to the orphanage and asks to be given a baby girl, and is given one of the twin baby sisters. Richard Golden, a wealthy shirtwaist manufacturer, has an only son, a little boy, who yearns for a sister and continually begs his father to bring him a little sister to be a playmate to him, and the father, to satisfy the child's persistent pleading, goes to the orphan home and brings home the other little twin sister. Years roll by and both girls have grown to young womanhood in their different stations in life. Jack Golden, now grown to manhood, and knowing that the girl is only a foster sister, asks her to become his wife. The girl consents only to end his stubborn importunings, but she really loves a chauffeur, with whom she plans to elope. The girl and the chauffeur get away in an automobile, but a mishap occurs which changes the destinies of all the characters in the incident. The car goes over a cliff and the chauffeur is killed while the girl is taken unconscious to a hospital, where being nothing on her person to disclose her identity. In the meantime, Lucy, now a seamstress and earning a livelihood for both her foster mother and herself, has been delegated by her union to call upon the Board of Directors of the shirtwaist organization to petition for shorter hours and higher wages. Mr. Golden and his son finding her there, the close resemblance to their missing one, makes them believe that she is none other. The surprised girl tells her story, but they conclude she must have lost her reason. They follow her to the home of poor old Mrs. Norton, from whom they learn that this girl is only a sister to the one whom they seek. After many fruitless searches, Mr. Golden advertises for his lost daughter and is informed by the house physician of the hospital that she is in his care. Mr. Golden hastens there only to find that she has expired. To fill the vacancy in their heart and home they offer a home of luxury to the poor twin and her aged foster mother, which offer is accepted and the spirit of the departed girl brings to her poverty-stricken the joys and ease she had enjoyed while on earth.
- Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information.
- John Grant, an American, is visiting in England with the family of Sir George Latimer, in a fine house near London. Prince Narr, of the royal house of Numidia, is also a guest with his retainers. Prince Narr is possessed of a strong hypnotic power, which he demonstrates in the course of a reception. After a few days Prince Narr falls in love with Sir George's daughter, Beth, and asks for her hand in marriage. Sir George does not believe in intermarriage between the white and dark races and refuses the prince's offer of his hand. This arouses the latter's displeasure and he also becomes intensely jealous of Grant, who has saved Beth from death during a ride behind the hounds. To avenge himself Prince Narr presents Sir George with a jeweled dagger, and through hypnotic suggestion commands Sir George to commit murder. The crime is really committed by a servant of the Prince, but Sir George is made to believe himself guilty. He is forced, while under the spell, to write a confession across Beth's forehead, which confession is in indelible ink. This at first fades out, but later reappears and can only be removed by a solution concealed in the dagger. The latter weapon is stolen by Claypool, a notorious criminal, and brought to America, where the chief characters follow in due time.
- Individual photographs of the running of a buffalo shot in rapid succession.
- A former captain joins a cargo ship's crew, finding it commanded by the man who stole his vessel, wife and daughter. With a fellow sailor in love with his daughter, he rallies the shanghaied crew against the brutal captain and first mate.
- The third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.
- Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
- Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.
- Wealthy, spoiled society girl Judith Stafford accepts a marriage proposal from rich European Count Henri and adopts his arrogance and contempt for American "barbarians". This angers her father Tobias, who arranges for Judith and a cowboy friend of his, Larry Saunders, to be marooned on a South Sea island to teach her a lesson and break her spirit. At first the "test" has no effect on her, but she soon begins to warm to Larry--until her snobbish fiance' shows up.
- A woman runs a birth control information bureau until police intervene. Though wealthy have access to this knowledge, the poor don't. She defies speaking bans, gets arrested, and wins over her doctor husband and a judge.
- Tarzan's son, Jack, escapes captivity and retreats into the jungle with an ape, where he finds love in unexpected places.
- A devil conjures up a dancing woman from a mystical flame.
- Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25, 000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty.
- Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
- A man who is used to depending on his mother to solve his financial debts becomes involved with the daughter of a lender.
- Ryoichi and Chikako are brother and sister. They live together. Chikako works during the day in an office and at night she prostitutes herself to fund her brother's studies at the university. Ryoichi doesn't know about his sister's secret life, but he is dating Harue whose brother is a policeman.
- Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
- Sherlock Holmes enters his drawing room to find it being burgled, but on confronting the villain is surprised when the latter disappears. Holmes initially attempts to ignore the event by lighting a cigar, but upon the thief's reappearance, Holmes tries to reclaim the sack of stolen goods, drawing a pistol from his dressing gown pocket and firing it at the intruder, who disappears. After Holmes recovers his property, the bag vanishes from his hand into that of the thief, who promptly disappears through a window. At this point the movie ends abruptly with Holmes looking "baffled".
- A doctor's monkey escapes from its cage, and causes mayhem about the office.
- Dictation of the statement of Captain Dreyfus in reference to the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that rocked France from 1894 to 1906.
- An innkeeper murders a wealthy guest to pay off his debt, but his conscience will not allow him to get away with the crime so easily.
- After the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the mystery.
- A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
- Tore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgården on the other side of the river, where beautiful Berit lives. Tore falls in love with her, but her father has promised her to rich Gjermund. As her wedding to Gjermund draws near, Berit runs away and seeks refuge with Tore and his parents. She soon falls deathly ill but recovers, asking for, and getting, her father's permission to marry Tore. Jealous Gjermund is determined to prevent their wedding, however, in a dramatic climactic scene playing out around the rushing river.
- A Lithuanian immigrant falls into financial hardship in Chicago when he loses his job due to cutbacks.
- Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- "Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.
- Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.
- Richard of Gloucester uses manipulation and murder to gain the English throne.
- Alice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards which then come to life to engage in a parade and dance with Alice.
- Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
- An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.
- Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.
- A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.
- A leader of New York society leaves her ship bound for Europe ,in disguise as a maid, to prevent her son's marrying into a lower class. Also converging on her home are a crook also disguised (as a deacon) several reporters and the police.
- Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family to write about.
- A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down stairs grinning. Others leave the same door and walk down the same stairs: a shabby man, a cop, and, several times, the same dandy. The man in blackface hangs himself; the dandy continues to smile. A bell tolls, a grave beckons. In the dark, the dandy plays the piano. Is he Death?
- In Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.
- A man comes onto the stage through the fireplace, divides himself, and sits on stools on either side of a table. He places a woman's head on the table and a hat on her head. She speaks to both men, turning her head as she talks. One man crawls under the table to demonstrate that no body is hidden there. The second conjurer produces the rest of her and both men seek her affections. A Mephistophelian figure enters and dispatches the woman in to thin air. The first two conjurers leave, and the devil removes his disguise, bows, and exits.
- After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck-- but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable.
- A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is unjustly accused of having turned killer.
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