Minions & Monsters
This is the rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true story of how the Minions conquered Hollywood, became movie stars, lost everything, unleashed monsters onto the world and then banded together to try and save the planet from the mayhem they had just created.
Hell's Angels
As the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Karl is ordered back to Germany. As a love triangle develops involving Monte, Roy, and Roy's girlfriend, Helen, the brothers' disparate personalities, and Monte's cowardice in the face of war soon threaten to compromise a top-secret bombing mission over German territory.
Nervo and Knox In Their Famous Dance Scene: The Love of Phtohtenuse
A vaudeville sketch act set in Roman era. A servant woman dances but is sent away by Emperor Caesar, who is continuously hailed by his personal assistant. Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox (later of The Crazy Gang comedy team) come in to entertain the emperor by performing a slapstick comedy dance. An early sound film, using Phonofilm with spoken gags by Caesar and his entourage take place largely throughout. The BFI print appears to be edited with parts in the wrong order. The surviving film is also incomplete.
Love's Old Sweet Song
A two-reel synchronized-sound dramatic playlet starring Una Merkel, made using the De Forest Phonofilm system.
Waring's Pennsylvanians
Three musical numbers performed by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians for Vitaphone.
The Lard Song
A song scene of a vaudeville act starring Tommy Lorne as a shopkeeper with a daughter vying for his attention while he is attempting to serve two well-to-do female customers. An early Phonofilm sound film.
Das Leben Auf Dem Dorfe
An early Tri-Ergon sound film depicting an idealized day in German village life through bells, animal calls, dialogue, music and a wandering singer.
The Serenade
An early De Forest Phonofilm performance short exhibited as part of a sound-film presentation at Riesenfeld's Rivoli Theatre in New York.