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Three cavemen court Miss Araminta Rockface. She favors the one who apparently slew the Missing Link ... but a dinosaur did the deed.

Harry Burnhart, who has inherited the Eclipse Tool Company, leaves the running of the company to efficiency expert Carl Vibert. When Vibert gives Pop Grinell, the company's oldest employee, two weeks' notice because he is slowing down on the job, the firm's advertising manager, George Extell, appeals to Burnhart to reinstate Pop. For his efforts, George himself is dismissed. Bidding farewell to his sweetheart Muriel Clemm, George heads West where he secures a job in a competitor's tool company, soon becoming the star salesman. His success leads Burnhart to offer him complete charge of the Eclipse Tool Company, and the salesman returns triumphantly to exact revenge on Vibert by giving him "the customary two weeks." However, his conscience gets the better of him and George relents, rehires Vibert and marries Muriel.

A caveman falls victim to a prehistoric prankster, but he is avenged by his pet chicken.

Two prehistoric suitors, one a mailman, compete for the affections of a prehistoric maiden and a dinosaur.

Chris, a student, ambitious in his own way but resisting tutors, was always in trouble until, at an auction sale, he purchased an old Oriental lamp because of its odd design, not dreaming that it was possessed of magical powers which he discovered when he began polishing it. A huge slave appeared, told him the lamp was his master and that he was prepared to obey any command that its owner, Chris, might give. As a test Chris bade the slave to transform himself into another Chris. He then sent the double of himself to school, where he was made to take the thrashings intended for Chris and to serve as the butt of many jokes and experiences meant for the real Chris. When the genie finally decides that he does not relish serving as Chris' double, the real trouble and fun begins, involving Chris' father and mother, teachers, family doctor, and farcical mix-ups develop with great rapidity. The doings of "Chris and the Wonderful Lamp" in the days of the Twentieth Century rival the best of Arabian Night tales.

A duel in France in which the Chevalier de la Roche kills the Vicomte de Valdeterre, results in an ongoing feud between the two families. Years later, in New Orleans, Valdeterre's son Henri arranges a duel with the son of the Chevalier de la Roche, known as the Little Chevalier. Overwhelmed at the swordsmanship of the Little Chevalier, Henri faints and, upon regaining consciousness, leaves the de la Roche estate. Later, at a ball held at the governor's mansion, Henri meets Diane, the daughter of the late Chevalier and, smitten, begins to court her. This arouses the jealousy of Delaup, who is the governor's secretary and an ardent suitor of Diane's. Delaup discovers a royal proclamation sent to Henri, granting him the power to seize the de la Roche estate, and attempts to use the document to force Diane to marry him. In response, Diane sends for Henri, and when he arrives, he finds the Little Chevalier waiting to duel. Henri's refusal to fight is met with the Little Chevalier removing his cloak to reveal that he is really Diane. The long term feud between the two families is then ended with Diane and Henri's marriage.

Two cavemen invent the wheel, but when they are frustrated in their attempts to have a dinosaur pull a cart, conclude that the device is useless.

A grotesque comedy of the prehistoric age. Mannikins are used with novel effect.

Mulius Caesar, a great Roman Emperor, owes an odd number of millions to Liarus Bunko, the royal soothsayer and money-lender. He could pay off his debts by selling the royal garage, but this is too desperate a means to be given a moment's thought. Bunko is willing to content himself with Myria, the emperor's beautiful daughter, and call it "square." Myria hates Bunko, but is willing to sacrifice herself if she can save thereby the royal garage. At the betrothal banquet, Bunko presents her with a lazy slave, called Plento Morpheus. Plento falls at once in love with Myria, and flirts with her in the presence of Caesar and Bunko. He is sentenced to be eaten up by Leo, the terrible lion. Cast into the arena, he succeeds in outwitting his tormentors, and in substituting Bunko for himself as food for the lion. The lion offers no objection, as Morpheus is lean, while Bunko is fat. Caesar gets back his I.O.U.s, Myria and Morpheus are united and live happily ever after.

A rare sport in countries where steep hills and much snow make this dangerous game possible.

1861 Kentucky is divided North v South. Seventeen-year-old Gum and Skinny like Susie. The boys join opposing armies. In the war, Gum takes Skinny to hospital. Skinny escapes to Susie's house; Gum takes him prisoner. Susie makes her choice.

This historic and rare footage of Palestine focuses on the holy Christian and Jewish sites of Jerusalem.

A Native Woman dies, and a town of men take in her orphaned daughter.

Photographed at a New York aquarium under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society. Fish breathe oxygen from the water. If a fish is placed in a small amount of water he soon exhausts the oxygen and dies of suffocation. The New York Aquarium has solved the question of supplying the oxygen on long journeys even when fish are placed in small jars. The jar is first filled with pure sea water. The fish to be shipped are placed in it and the jar is inverted in a tank full of water. Sufficient oxygen is then admitted to force out one-third of the water. The jar is tightly corked under water and hermetically sealed with waxed linen. The jar is then packed in a barrelful of sawdust or excelsior, addressed and shipped to its destination. The fish will live for more than fourteen days in a jar of small size. It is therefore possible to ship them from New York to any part of the United States and to most parts of Europe.

The eggs of the silkworm, called graine, are hatched out by artificial heat at the period when the mulberry leaves are ready for the feeding of the larvae. The moth of the silkworm lays about two hundred eggs. A view of the eggs hatching is shown. The silkworm molts about four times. When the caterpillars are mature they cease eating and ascend the brushwood branches or echelletes provided for them, in which they set about spinning their cocoons. They complete their cocoons in from three to four days, and in two or three days thereafter the cocoons are collected and the pupae killed to prevent further progress. Such cocoons as are selected for the production of the graine are freed from the external floss, and preserved at a temperature of 66 to 72 degree Fahrenheit. In about two weeks the moths appear.

This picture presents the most sublime of earthly spectacles. Most of the views were made shortly after the heaviest fall of snow at the canyon in recent years. Clouds form in the canyon and give to the scene an ethereal aspect. Tourists are seen descending into the canyon, some on foot and others astride burros. Passing Hermit's Rest, the party descends through the Devil's Corkscrew, a dangerous and precipitous pass in the side of the mountain. In the canyon the party rests at the river, and then returns to the starting point by way of the Bright Angel Trail.

Newspaper clerk wants to be a detective, uses a missing finger clue to catch a murderer.

A young man wanders into the park and filled with the calling of spring steps on the grass and admires the flowers. But a cop scares him away. He throws himself down on a bench to rest, and slowly his heavy eyelids close. Nature sleeps in sunlit peace, likewise does our bright young man. Dreaming dreams of ancient Greece with himself the young God Pan. With a vision of himself as Pan playing on the pipes there comes to him a maiden of rare beauty. They romp about the open fields of old Greece, the maiden fleet of foot and ever elusive. Pan pursues the maid, and they seat themselves upon a rock and whisper delicious nothings to each other.

On a desolate rock, only three hundred yards square, off the southern tip of South Africa, there live almost half a million strange unusual birds, of different species with a code of unusual laws and strict observance of caste. The black cormorants, little known outside of Malagas Island. Between them and the white solan geese, a strict "color line" is drawn. In the silence of the African night and the splendor of the moon, each cormorant and each solan hies to the clan crevice in the rocks and pays a wordless graceful courtship to his mate. The strangest birds on the island, however, are the penguins. They cannot fly, but their wings help them in diving. The eggs of the penguin are a great delicacy and thousands are sent to the London market every year.

T. Haviland Hicks contracts an intimate friendship with Theophilus. They are freshmen. Hicks is saturated with good humor. Theophilus' main characteristic is timidity and the least excitement makes him faint. The sophomores, indignant at Hick's abuse of the banjo, prepare to haze him. Theophilus overhears their scheme and warns Hicks. Hicks hurls a defy at the sophomores to the effect that they are welcome to haze him, but if they fail to do so, Theophilus and himself are to be secure from hazing for all time. They accept the defy and on the appointed night repair to his room wrapped up in pillow cases. Hicks smashes the drop light against the wall and the room is steeped in darkness. When a light is secured, Hicks is not to be found and the sophomores conclude that he has dived through the window. In fact, he is right among them, wrapped up in a pillow case. The duped sophomores plan to avenge themselves. Hicks gets wind of their scheme and awaits developments with absolute calm. On the fated night the sophomores drag Hicks out of bed and carry him off to their lair. They proclaim him to be the original "missing link" and urge him to do an imitation of a monkey; but he dives through a window into a tennis net held ready for the purpose by a number of freshmen. The pursuing sophomores encounter a superior number of freshmen and are roughly handled. Thereupon the sophomores post a defy, daring Hicks and his class to substitute the freshman colors for the sophomore colors, which will be found floating from the flag pole at a stated hour. Hicks dons a coat of mail, disguises Theophilus as a gorilla and succeeds in routing the sophomores and hoisting the freshman colors. Hicks becomes the most famous man at college. Moving Picture World, September 1, 1917

This famous poem by Tennyson is made the subject of a scenic comprising a tableau of pictures that interpret the mood of the poem. We follow the falls bickering down the valley and the brook as it chatters over stony ways in little sharps and trebles, as it steals by lawns and grassy plots and murmurs under moon and stars in brambling wilderness, as it hurries down the hills past town and under bridges, winding in and out with here and there a foamy flake until it joins the brimming river.

This film shows that many schools have complete courses in woodcraft for boys. Two-day canoe trips are part of the course. While out camping, the boys enjoy the simple life, living in tents, taking their daily swim and cooking their own meals. Matches are not needed, and it is a treat to watch the boys starting a fire without them. The flapjacks they turn out would arouse the envy of a Broadway chef. Their bodies are hardened by such sports as racing, swimming and spear throwing. In the evening they dance around the campfire and indulge in such simple games as knocking each other off the stool. The ending of this split reel shows a boy blowing the bugle and the camp breaking up.