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- "A lively winter scene in New York's famous park."
- Showing high-class equipages at the Seventh Avenue and One-hundred and Tenth Street entrance to Central Park, New York City.
- At the opening of the picture an enormous flock of gulls is seen resting on the ice at the edge of an open pool. A shot is fired, and immediately the gulls arise and take flight, swinging before the camera in circles as they mount upward.
- A bevy of happy children sliding down the well worn copings on either side of the stairway leading to the Obelisk [in Central Park]. A very pleasing and amusing subject.
- Showing thousands of young people enjoying their favorite Winter Sport.
- Showing a large number of people enjoying this favorite Winter pastime in Central Park. This scene was taken close by a large lake, and shows thousands of people skating in the background. A most interesting subject.
- Two feuding houses are united with the marriage and eventual death of their children.
- An early Biograph short in which two separate sequences of events collide and the leading man must save his lady from the villain. The first storyline involves a group of young-adult beach-goers, particularly focusing on one couple in love. The other storyline involves a criminal who escapes from two policemen. The con eventually makes his way to the beach where the other group is frolicking. He takes the leading lady hostage out in a rowboat, and it is up to her man to save her.
- After a makeover transforms him, a man flirts with his wife, his daughter and his son's girlfriend, none of whom recognize him in this early one-reel comedy of errors.
- A corrupt politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in wooing her.
- The story tells of the young widowed mother of two children who is forced by extreme poverty to part with one of her children, a baby girl, by placing it in a basket on the door steps of a wealthy banker. Before leaving the baby the poor mother takes one of its little shoes to keep as a memento. Returning to her cheerless home she is seized with a paroxysm and falls lifeless in a chair, with her little boy at her side. A neighbor hearing her cries runs for the parish priest, who finds the poor woman beyond human aid. Her soul has departed into eternity. She still clutches the little shoe which mutely tells the woman's sad story. The good priest takes the boy as well as his sister's shoe. Meanwhile the baby has been found by the banker and his wife and they decide to adopt it. Fifteen years elapse and we find the girl grown up in blissful ignorance of her origin, of course imagining the banker and his wife her parents, while the boy has gone through his collegiate course preparatory to Holy Orders. One afternoon while walking in the park the boy's attention is attracted by a runaway, and leaping to the roadway he seizes the bridle of a wild fractious horse and brings it to a standstill. Assisting the young lady occupant of the vehicle to a taxicab he escorts her to her home. A strong friendship between the two young people ripens later to love and the boy is seen struggling between the all-important questions as to his future, whether it be religious or secular. His love for the girl is so strong, so pure, that he determines to gain the old priest's consent to his marrying instead of entering the priesthood. What a blow it is to the good old father, but he feels it may be for the best and consents even to marry them. Now the banker's wife thinks it only just to the young people to reveal the truth about the girl, telling how she found her fifteen years before, and that one of her little shoes was missing. At this intelligence the old priest is staggered, for he sees at once that the marriage cannot take place; they are brother and sister. He raises his head in thanksgiving for the grace of God that brought about this timely revelation. However, brother and sister find "The peace that passeth all understanding." She becomes a nun and he goes to his ordination into the priesthood, giving their future lives up to the honor and glory of the Divine Master whose guiding hand showed the better way.
- After being jilted for another, a woman sends her lover's old letters to the new fiancée and looks forward to the reaction. But when she spots her old lover's glove left behind, she has a change of heart and repents.
- Central Park is considered by travelers that have been the world over to be one of the most beautiful city parks in all the world, only one or two being larger. A rural gentleman and his pretty nieces add a human interest to its scenic attractiveness as we follow them through this beautiful park. At the Fifth Avenue entrance, the first thing they see is the magnificent statue of General Sherman by the great sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Then they stroll up the East Drive to the menagerie. We follow them to the different paddocks where we find hoofed animals from all over the world. A star among them is "Toby," the largest buffalo in captivity. Next come the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History and the great obelisk popularly known as "Cleopatra's Needle," erected by order of Thotmes III, 1585 B.C., at Heliopolis, and brought to this country in 1879 from Alexandria, Egypt. The panorama of the frozen reservoir and boys playing hockey on the Mall prove attractive sights. Block House Number One is of especial historic interest, as it was erected in 1812 for the defense of the city and is one of a number that were built by its citizens. The picture closes with two really remarkable scenes of the frozen lake and the merry skaters.
- An old millionaire was extremely fond of children. Years ago his wife and infant daughter had died, and despite his great wealth, he was lonely. One day a young business man called at his office to ask an extension of time on the note the millionaire held. At the first the old man refused, later he promised to "think it over." It was a Saturday half-holiday in May, and the old man closed his desk early, and went for a walk in the park. There he ran into a children's May Party, and stopped to watch them. One little girl came to him, and made friends immediately. On the following Monday morning the child's father received a letter which the millionaire had written. In it the father was told that the creditor could not grant any extension of time and that he must pay up what he owed by the following day. The child saw the tears in the eyes of her parents. She picked up the letter which they had dropped on the floor, and took it with her into the park. Luckily a hand organ grinder came along about this time, and the problem was solved. Hurriedly she went home; hastily she prepared a sign like that of the organ grinder. It read, "Please help the pore." Then the child took her toy piano, hastened back to the park prepared to entertain the passing public. She had all of four cents when her "kind old man" happened along. He had hoped to see her, but was to note her occupation. In response to her questions she told him her troubles and confidingly displayed the letter. He read and understood. Then he explained that he would act as her agent, took the pennies and sent a note to the parents explaining that their "talented daughter's successful concert had supplied funds sufficient to induce him to grant them all the time they wanted to settle the debt." He was a close-fisted old millionaire, but the child had touched his heart. And the promise he made to look after her he kept.
- This magnificent park, in the center of Manhattan island, is the Mecca of all visitors to New York City. In our journey through the park we visit the world-famous Metropolitan Museum. Nearby we are attracted by Cleopatra's Needle, a gift from the Egyptian Government to New York City. We see the keepers feeding the hippopotami; children feeding the swans in the beautiful lake; the Columbus Monument at the Fifty-Ninth Street and Eighth Avenue entrance; the Sherman Statue at the Fifty-Ninth Street and Fifth Avenue entrance; the Casino; the picturesque lake; a lady visitor feeding the squirrels; the crowds on The Mall; Webster's Monument; the Cave: the Pilgrim Fathers' Monument: the Playground; McGown's Pass Tavern; the Old Stone Fort; the donkey ride; the trick elephant going through his paces under the instruction of a keeper; a Saturday concert; and many other interesting sights greet our eyes.
- Amidst impressive ceremonies and in the presence of hundreds of thousands of people, a superb monument dedicated to the heroes sent to destruction when the "U.S.S. Maine" was blown up in Havana Harbor, February, 1898, was recently unveiled at Central Park, New York City. This extraordinary feature gives a splendid view of the proceedings, which included a parade in which the Army and Navy participated and the unveiling of the beautiful monument. It will hold the interest of the photoplay patrons from beginning to end.
- The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
- Pierre, the artist, in his garret, sits reading two letters. One is from his old mother, begging him to come back home as she needs his loving care. The other is from Maurice, a millionaire chum, urging Pierre to come and live in luxury in return for teaching him how to paint. Pierre murmurs. "My poor old mother," drops a tear on the words she has written, and promptly accepts his rich friend's offer. Then he turns. Standing in the doorway is a slender, dark-complexioned fellow, with a pointed beard. The stranger regards him with a smile. At the millionaire's home, both young men fall in love with Mariette, the beauty of the neighborhood. She prefers the artist because he is "so romantic." But when the millionaire proposes she says "yes." "For love in a cottage," she tells herself, "has positively gone out of date." The artist sorrowfully resigns himself to her choice. He feels no better, however, when he happens to see the black bearded apparition. Pierre escapes to Monte Carlo, where he loses all his money. M. Nick (for this is the name of the apparition) lends him funds. The artist sagely wins back his losings, pays his debts and departs. He has no intention of giving the devil first mortgage on his soul. Again in Paris, he finds that Mariette has jilted the millionaire, for, after all, she loves the poor artist. Pierre would do anything for his bride. So he hastens to M. Nick to borrow money for the wedding trip. Arriving at the home of his peculiar guardian spirit, he is not a whit dismayed by the growling of the thunder and the blinding flashes of lightning, which seem to warn him against this reprehensible step he is taking. And then he discovers that M. Nick does not hail from the lower regions, after all. He is really Pierre's long-lost uncle who intensely approves of his nephew because he will not consent to go and live upon the savings of his old mother, because he has left the gaming-table when he has won back his money, and particularly, because he was unselfish enough to give up the girl he loved. Everything considered, M. Nick decides to make Pierre his heir. And so, it is shown, that very often a man who looks like the devil is not a devil at all.
- A banker in a country town, ambitious and unscrupulous, craved more power and wealth and determined to steal the funds entrusted to his care. The dishonest cashier proved to be a ready tool, and agreed to flee to South America and accepted the blame for the bank's shortage in return for a share of the spoils. The plan was carried out, but despite all efforts of the police, no clue could be found of the missing man. One person in the town suspected the banker of complicity in the crime. It was the old editor of the town newspaper. With only suspicion for justification, yet feeling morally sure of his right, he conducted a series of attacks upon the banker, until the rich man sent an emissary to the editor with pretended expressions of sympathy. The emissary pressed upon the editor a sum of money sufficient to keep the paper going for several months and secured in return a promissory note which would enable the banker to seize his opponent's plant at any time he might desire. The editor's daughter left town to visit her aunt in New York, while the banker received a letter from the guilty cashier, who calmly stated that instead of going to South America he had stayed in New York and that unless the banker met him in New York the following day that he would confess to the police. The banker left for New York at once. The editor's daughter visited the park with her little cousin. The youngster was the proud possessor of a small camera and insisted upon taking the girl's picture. Then be wandered off and took other snapshots of famous spots in the park, one of these chanced to also show the banker handing money to his confederate, for the two men had met in the park for their conference. All would have been well, but the boy, putting down his camera for a moment, mislaid it, and later picked up a camera which he thought was his, but belonged to a young man who was taking pictures in the park with a friend. The two cameras were mixed, and when the films were developed there was bewilderment all around. The small boy was much disgusted, but his girl cousin found much to admire in the young man's picture on the film, while the young westerner who beheld her picture was much impressed. The girl left for home, and the young westerner saw her just as she was about to pass through the train gates. He rushed forward, but the gates shut, and the guard said he didn't know the girl or the station she was hound for. When he found her, the picture of the banker handing money to his accomplice was sufficient to save the old editor from losing his newspaper and to secure punishment for the guilty men. The young westerner's wife isn't a bit jealous of "the girl in the picture," because she's that girl.
- The civilized inhabitants of a formerly "wild" western town scramble to recreate the town's rough and rowdy heyday in order to indulge the fantasies of a rich newcomer.
- When Marcel, a waif, saves master crook Burke from the police, Burke adopts the youngster and teaches him his profession. Years later, Marcel has become a master crook himself, working under the name of Michael Lanyard. His clever work baffles the Paris police, who dub him "The Lone Wolf". The Pack, a gang of criminals, notifies The Wolf that unless he joins them, he is marked for destruction. Lucy, an undercover agent masquerading as a crook to expose the gang, helps The Wolf escape. This inaugurates a series of adventures in which Lucy and The Wolf are pursued by the gang, finally making their escape to England by plane. The Pack follows, only to meet their death in a plane crash. Liberated from his tormentors, The Wolf vows to go straight and marries Lucy.
- Prominent New York magazine publisher Frank Clayton visits Paris, France,with his wife Elinor and young son Dick. He is shown around the city by Benjamin De Lota, an art critic who is a contributor to Clayton's magazine, and among the people he introduces to Frank is model Mimi Chardenet. Frank is immediately taken with the young beauty, and they begin an affair. When Elinor happens upon her husband and Mimi walking together, he introduces her as a new writer for his magazine. However, when they return to New York, Elinor learns of his fling with Mimi. Complications ensue.
- On an ocean liner returning to America, Alison Landis, an actress, avoids paying duty on a valuable pearl necklace by hiding it in the lining of a hat which she sends to Benjamin Staff, a playwright. The necklace is being trailed by a crook who is related to another passenger, Eleanor Searle, who also has a striped hatbox similar to the one recovered by the unsuspecting playwright. The crook bears an uncanny resemblance to Eleanor's father. The two bandboxes are inadvertently switched at the dock. The crook discovers the switch, and pursues Eleanor to a cabin on a deserted island where she fights for her life, but is saved by her father and Benjamin. The crook is killed, the jewels are destroyed, and plans for marriage between Eleanor and Benjamin ensue.
- Man tries to make a comeback after getting out of prison.
- Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle's ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
- Sadie Hermann, employed in a big New York fur store, dreams of escaping from the early-morning alarm clock and the twice-a-day subway crush. One night in a subway jam she is catapulted into the arms of Herbert McCarthy, a subway guard. It is love at first sight and Herb asks her to marry him. Then her boss announces she is going to be sent to Paris for a fashion show. Sadie has a problem...marriage or Paris?
- Gangsters posing as police officers offer a woman a chance to make money if she helps them out.
- To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at Mr. Weber's (the gangster's) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back.
- In the depth of the Depression, Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. It seems that the clients are tiring of the regular hard-and-fast women, and this would be a change that would allow the girls to go out to dinners and see shows. Tom does not want his fiancée Flo, to go out with clients--until he needs her to close a contract with Daniel. After that, she finds that Tom is two-timing her with Birdie, so she goes out again with Daniel. Everything is going well for a time until Daniel needs her to close a contract with Haines.
- The first 3 minutes of this Vitaphone Melody Master feature Phil Spitalny's orchestra playing popular music. The band's singer then fantasizes about her experience when she first arrived in America, looking for "Uncle Phil." As she wanders through the various ethnic neighborhoods of New York City (the Bowery; Hester Street; Mott Street; Harlem), music associated with each area is heard. She finally hears music from her homeland being played in a restaurant and is united with her relatives.
- While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
- An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.
- An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.
- The fascinating Grace Herbert has many years' experience as a professional gold-digger. Her finances at a low ebb, she finds her mature beauty less effective than of yore, and takes on impoverished 19-year-old Ellen Daley as an apprentice: "between your youth and my spirit, we can do it." The initially reluctant Ellen soon gets the hang of it. But after the cowboy she falls for proves to be a wealthy rancher, she feels an odd reluctance to mix business with pleasure...
- A successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.
- A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.
- Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
- In Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.
- Although not officially an entry in the Traveltalks series, the same production crew was used for this two-reeler, and the opening credits have the same appearance. The film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Temple Emanuel, the Central Park Zoo, and the Rockefeller Center complex. The film ends in with a visit to a dining room in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra entertains.
- Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
- A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals money from the office of a shady lawyer--with catastrophic consequences.
- After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.
- The body of a Jane Doe turns up in an abandoned car in New York and the police's only clue revolves around the tattoo she has on her arm, and the fact that someone tried to destroy the corpse to erase the fingerprints.
- A reluctant soldier, Peter, serves in Italy during WWII. He marries a local girl named Teresa and brings her to the US.
- Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing, the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had, hoping that the marriage can be saved. Starring Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray as Florence and Chet.