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Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.

Follows the gentle and playful adventures of Kipper, a curious and friendly dog with a love for exploring the world around him.

Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attacks. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?

Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.

My Old Kentucky home is the first sound cartoon ever produced and finds a dog getting ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home".

Things look very bleak for Mrs. Marshall, an invalid whose ownership of a marble quarry depends on the delivery of a certain order to a cathedral. The shipment is ready and awaits only a confirmation of the order; but the awaited letter is being held by Power, a bank cashier who is determined to ruin both Mrs. Marshall and bank president Cooper by falsifying the bank's books. Cooper is jailed; his son, Charles, discovers Power's villainy and has several harrowing experiences in trying to get the marble shipment underway. In the end a tramp (The Wanderer) reveals himself to be a Secret Service agent and arrests Power. Her condition has kept Mrs. Marshall from accepting the love of Mr. Cooper, whose son loves Mrs. Marshall's daughter, Eunice; but now all are reunited, and Mrs. Marshall finds that she can walk.

In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.

Pompeyo Pimpollo and Rodolfo Bambolino, two lino-type artists from El Heraldo de Madrid, want to be movie stars, so they take a test conducted by the American filmmaker E. S. Carawa. When rejected, they decide to attract attention by planning a false murder that is complicated to the point that Rodolfo is sentenced to death.

Twin sisters, one good and honest and sweet, and the other given to totin' pistols and pulling robberies, keep confusing a detective about which one he his chasing for what, since he has different reasons for chasing both.

Ko-Ko the clown and his glee club lead the audience in an early follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-along.

Metropolitan Opera star Marie Rappold sings in one of the earliest short films made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

A dramatic radio play where Bransby Williams gives us his brilliant characterisation of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Ben Bernie and All the Lads band, featuring pianist Oscar Levant, perform songs by Vincent Youmans and George Gershwin in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.

The subject of this short film is taxation and tax reform

From the Minnesota backwoods, Rockuax is on the run to the North Pole after experiencing a dissonant creature open the sky. While ducking and dodging this looming static, that feels like "the end", hope remains - via voicemail.

Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

British entertainer Paul England sings popular tune "The Sheik of Araby" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.

A short film showing a Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny") biplane in flight.

The cathedral scene from Shaw's famous play.