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- An 84 minute collection of commercials, music videos and other stuff by the influential English video artist and filmmaker Chris Cunningham.
- Max Fleischer's pen drawing of a clown performs tricks with lifelike motion.
- As a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.
- Rare plagiarized version of Winsor McCay's animated short film "Gertie the Dinosaur" created by John Randolph Bray in 1915. It shows an animated dinosaur doing several shenanigans in a prehistoric natural setting.
- The Inkwell Clown battles a boxing kangaroo.
- Colonel Heeza Liar doesn't need to see a battle to write it up. Not he. He sits in the trenches, his trusty typewriter on his knees and rips off "eye-witness" descriptions that would make "our special correspondent at the front" blush for shame. His success is his undoing, though. He is given a camera and has to go out on the firing line to photograph the action he so vividly describes. The old Colonel can't see his way out of this, so he just goes. Setting up his camera in fear and trembling, he lets loose on the crank and all is well until the leaden hail starts imitating a snowstorm in Alaska. The Colonel is inspired with the courage of a man who knows there's no escape, and dodges the larger shot with an almost jubilant agility. His tripod is shot from under his camera, but the Colonel keeps on cranking. Hundreds of shots, any one of which carries sweet repose, sneak through his shifty legs, under his flapping arms, through his very fingers, but still he cranks. It would be most undignified to say that the Colonel was a "crank on pictures," so we'll leave that out. Suddenly Heeza feels himself hoisted from behind by a treacherous shot, and riding a cannonball through the clouds. He lands amongst friends, though, and surprises them with his sudden terror when told he is to be "decorated" for his bravery.
- Colonel Heeza Liar jumps off the drawing board and into the real world to track down a stolen rooster.
- After an organ grinder's monkey grabs a little girl's lollipop with his tail, the musician explains why monkeys are so clever with their tails.
- Dud's mother catches him breaking open a coin bank and spanks him. He runs away from home, only to suffer another spanking when he returns.
- Max Fleischer's first attempt to draw an animated cartoon by rotoscoping a boy-scout doing semaphore flag signals by moving his arms up and down. A Drawing Patent survives.
- Colonel Heeza Liar is the star of the first animated series featuring a recurring character. In this story he comes to the rescue of a baseball team and becomes the star pitcher and hitter.
- Pathe asked Max to come up with his own cartoon star. Brother Dave dressed in a clown outfit and Max asked him to 'clown around'. Max then rotoscoped his brother into animation and Pathe liked it, putting in an order for clown cartoons.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcomes him. Next our friend mistakes a bear's ears for a butterfly, and tries to net them, with the result that soon he is up a tree only a breath or two in advance of the bear. Things look very dark for him, especially as the bear energetically tries to shake the colonel from his perch like a ripe apple, but again his resourcefulness finds a victory. As a final grand windup he makes the biggest bag of game, all at one shot that anyone ever secured under similar circumstances.
- The titular nurse at a health resort may not be naughty as the title suggests, but one patient in particular is. Some trick shooting, an homage to William Tell, some bathing beauties and Gypsies all add to the madcap fun.
- Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.
- An artist draws a dog who comes to life and eats a plate of sausages.
- The current cartoon comedy shows that the famous Col. Heeza Liar has heard the "Back to Nature" call. He becomes a farmer and directs his genius toward making the farmer's life a truly simple one. In this, as in all other directions, he is successful. His first achievement is to train his bantam rooster to call him at dawn. Even the birds are taught to serve as an orchestra while Heeza eats his breakfast. The routine work of a farmer is play to Heeza for he has taught Fido, the Liar hound, to dig potatoes. Bill, the rooster, commander-in-chief of the barnyard, marshals the hens in a military array. Three flaps of Bill's wings and the scratching hens begin to till the ground. Rose, the Holstein cow, has also succumbed to Heeza' s teaching and each evening calls at the kitchen door as much as to say, "Bring on your pail, I'll fill it."
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- The stalwart adventurer, Heeza Liar marching on to Mexico City to quell the revolution single-handed, grows footsore and weary and, in consequence, meeting with a wandering burro, mounts his back. The jack objects to this imposition and proceeds to unseat the Colonel. He has taken on a more difficult task that he at first supposed for Heeza Liar is prouder of his horsemanship than of any of other accomplishments. But Jack finally dumps the Colonel on the street and with his heels sends him through a window and into a bed already occupied. The occupant, a rebel, is peeved at the intrusion and in the battle which follows Heeza emerges triumphant. Not only that, but he steals an aeroplane and with its anchor hooks Huerta and after depositing him on Mars delivers the Mexican's sword to President Wilson and receives the medal of the Legion of Watchful Waiting.
- In Bray Studios' first color cartoon, a young kitten's father teaches him how to catch mice, but the kitten has a difficult time mastering the skill.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Unable to finish his cartoon, Max sends a drawing of the Clown by messenger directly to the projectionist. Upon receipt the Clown comes to life on the page, performing a circus horse act that's truly to die for.
- Mrs. Dinge, having decided to take a half holiday, provides her squalling half-tone production with the liquid nourishment that gave Milwaukee a place on the map. She then departs for her raid on bargain counters unknown. Another infant, of the bleating bovine variety, likewise deserted by a mother who carries the nourishment with her, endeavors to scrape up an acquaintance with Dinge, Jr., but the miniature chocolate cream drop finds that the calf's tongue produces on his calabash complexion the soft, soothing effect of a coarse-grained emery wheel, and registers his objections to this sort of facial massage at the top of his lungs. The Police Dog hears sounds of distress, and rushes to the rescue. But the calf has it on the pup, and doesn't take any pains to conceal it. The "K-9" sends out a signal of distress. But sleeping is the thing that Office Piffles does beat, and it takes more than a police whistle to wake him. The pup finally gets the cagey sleuth to realize that something's amiss. Piffles manages to rope the cussed calf, who, as soon as he realizes he has Piffles on the string, starts gaily forward at a speed that finally lands the luckless officer down a chimney and onto the furnace griddle. Meanwhile, the Police Dog exercises his talents as a peacemaker, with results that would make the Hague Tribunal green with envy.
- Since the Colonel's trip to Africa he has wonderfully developed his muscles and gives a remarkable exhibition of his strength. Reading of the troubles in Mexico he decided to sail thither, stop the war and make himself emperor. So he embarks on an ocean greyhound superbly confident in himself. But misfortune pursues him. His vessel is wrecked and the gallant Colonel finds himself adrift upon the raging main astride of a spar and with the mighty waves threatening to tear him from his perch. Finally the sea becomes calm and our hero drifts on, hungry and thirsty. He sees a bottle floating near him and thinks to have a drink, but the bottle contains nothing but a paper containing a few lines of writing from another wrecked mariner and that is all. A mighty whale then engulfs him in his yawning maw and carries him to a tiny island, where he throws him up on the land. Our hero finds to his great delight a fine cocoanut palm growing there and refreshes himself with food and drink from one of the nuts. Then he lays himself down to sleep content. But he is not destined to be left in peace. He is kidnapped by a stork, which flies with him to Mexico, where he meets with further surprising adventures.
- Max Fleischer draws the upper and lower halves of the Clown's body, which dance around separately before coming together. Max interacts with his creation before ultimately washing the Clown off the page with water.
- A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
- Animated scientific diagrams show how oxygen is carried to cells in the human body (and carbon dioxide is carried away) through blood vessels, and how blood is pumped by the heart and purified by the lungs.
- The extraordinary intelligence of this particular police dog will "get the film over" with any audience to the accompaniment of roars of laughter. While the particular cop to whom he is attached is taking him, securely fastened by a leash, on his rounds the dog spies a suspicious character in the shape of a cat. At once there is a grand uproar and pursuit. The cat goes like a streak, and so does the dog, dragging with him the poor cop. Through a sewer pipe into a muddy pool, over the rocks, the strange procession dashes. After this unfortunate "faux pas," the dog wisely keeps at a distance from the cop. A little later, seeing a beggar seated on the sidewalk with a card saying, "help the blind," the dog sees his opportunity. Holding up the beggar's hat in his teeth, he "begs" the passersby for alms. The "fake" blind beggar sees the resulting harvest with joy. But vengeance is near. The cop approaches and confiscates the ill-gotten gains. There are other amusing experiences which the dog goes through. Mr. Bray certainly had a pleasing flight of fancy when he made these pictures.
- An animated interpretation of a rocket voyage to the moon demonstrates the scientific principles at play in theoretical space travel (such as gravity).
- When a journeyman boxer's gal is attacked by a rival boxer, his manager says he is not ready--so he comes up with a plan to get revenge on the bully.
- The Judge needs a present for his wife's birthday, so Harry suggests a new corset. They go to the shop, but he's so embarrassed to ask the saleslady he hides in a phone booth.Harry goes in, but finds a GUY wearing one, and runs out.They both dress as women to get back in, but Mrs. Rummy gets there and chases him out.
- Bratty Bobby Bumps tells his friend that he's starting a lodge in order to trick him. But Bobby soon gets his comeuppance when they encounter a bear!