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- The children set a trap for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, knowing he has to come through the window because their estate has no chimney. Their father, who abandoned them and his wife before she inherited her fortune, plans to burglarize that very house, unaware of the occupants or the trap.
- A training film stressing accuracy for Western Union's keyboard operators, who were mostly women.
- Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.
- A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
- Robert L. Ripley shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second. He demonstrates this by giving her a 200-word tract she reads in 24 seconds. Next a woman telephones to question his assertion that you can walk through a hole in a cigarette paper, but he demonstrates how when she arrives. Other oddities follow, including a miniature bedroom set built in a bottle; statements that the biblical Abraham wasn't a Jew, but a Babylonian and that Einstein once flunked mathematics. He draws a picture of an African with a big projection growing out of his forehead and has a photograph to prove it. An animated sequence demonstrates how a porcupine fish can kill a shark. Finally, he brings out a small Chinese boy who sings "Hello Baby".
- Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels.
- At the request of a television experimenter who needed items to broadcast, Robert L. Ripley states unsubstantiated oddities including that a Spanish lady had her husband's portrait tattooed on her tongue as penance for nagging him to death. He also shows a house and the blind man who built it by himself in Wayne, New Jersey. The longest word in the world (184 letters, from a work by Aristophanes), is written on a blackboard and pronounced and translated by a professor. There are animated sequences of a rifle fish, which shoots at flying insects for food, and how a strange home run was hit in 1890, when the ball bounced off the outfielder's head and over the fence. Ripley demonstrates his skill as an artist by drawing several items, such as a Chinese man who had fingernails 22.75 inches long. Finally, in the most amazing sequence, Ripley introduces Carl Vaughan, who demonstrates how he picks up 12 pocket billiard balls with one hand and without touching the table or the balls with any other part of his body. There are scenes intercut throughout showing a family watching the show on television.
- Robert L. Ripley presents various oddities to members of the Believe-It-or-Not Club.
- A negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
- A woman becomes a successful singer, but can't do as well in love.
- A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.
- In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Henry Smith convinces his wife, Ellen, that they should take separate one-week vacations, with no questions asked. He tries to sow some wild oats with a show girl and a paid escort, while she reacquaints herself with a childhood friend, now a famous explorer. Both get more than they bargained for.
- A snapshot of life in the jungles of Northern Siam.
- A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.
- A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
- Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. Stephen Kildare, he returns to his parents home to help him with his excessive workload. Dr. Kildaire Sr. is servicing a wide area ever since the doctors in neighboring towns moved elsewhere. Noting that three doctors at Blair General are doing menial jobs because they can't start their own practices, Kildare conceives the idea of building a clinic in Parkersville to be serviced by the three doctors and financed by the townsfolk paying ten cents a week to subscribe to the service. But influential men in Parkersville provide serious opposition to the plan.
- The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.
- A carnival huckster and his 17-year-old foster daughter try to be accepted by the townspeople when she and a handsome lad fall in love.
- Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
- The short has four seemingly unconnected sections, except that a certain conveniences for the user are involved. In "Bowery Beautician", a beautician shows how he hides a hideous black eye until it is barely noticeable. In "Chutes", the proper way of packing a silk parachute is shown and a man jumps from a plane, and presumably lands safely. In "Home Brew", the pleasures of making your coffee from whole coffee beans and a grinder, is demonstrated. In "Girth Control", a lovely lady exercises and uses reducing vibrating machines to help her lose weight.
- Because the Stanislavsky method of playing bridge has no rules, it promotes marital harmony for those who stick with it.
- Dan Curly sends two hitmen to kill double-crossing Flicker Hayes, who retreats to a small village with ex-prostitute Rose to hide.
- Judge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy.
- Three apparent murders and a pair of imposters disrupt the lives of an engaged couple.
- They smash through skylights, tumble down staircases, drop from a high rooftop into a waiting convertible - the only fall Skipper Clark and his pals won't take is to fall in love.
- A teenager plays cupid for her widowed father but picks the wrong woman.
- Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
- The story of a female German spy who willingly sacrifices her life for her country.
- Gangsters come out West to hide out and the locals, led by a newcomer (William Boyd), fight them in self-defense before the local authorities arrive.
- Fanciful account of how Mendelssohn came to write "The Wedding March."
- Push-cart vendors are told to move on by a policeman.
- A small town electrician becomes a hit singer in New York and gets involved with a gold digger, a thief, an opera singer and the woman he loves.
- After Hildegarde proves that the accidental riding death on a Central Park bridle path is really murder, she's faced with a plethora of red herrings and a real killer.
- A private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot.
- An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren.
- A businessman enrolls as a college freshman in order to break up his son's relationship with a gold-digger.
- A young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe.
- Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, but they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps our equals, in morality.
- Judge Hardy goes to his friend's Arizona ranch to help her in a legal dispute, and he takes his family with him.
- A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
- A maid helps her employers climb the social ladder and has a secretive interest in one particular socialite.
- Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.
- A man's pregnant second wife gets upset when he decides to go overseas to his young son, who may be dying of typhoid fever.
- A burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Meanwhile, a deranged Russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is actually Princess Anastasia, last survivor of the Tsar's family--but she seems to behave strangely in the presence of flowers.
- When a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.
- A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
- Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
- Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
- An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
- A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.