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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.
- 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".
- 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.
- Vaudeville stars Weber and Fields perform their famous pool hall routine in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- During a dinner party at the Brookfield family estate, private detective Craig Kennedy relates a story of one of his unsolved murder cases. What Kennedy knows, and the other guests do not, is that the person who was the killer in the unsolved mystery is in the room, and Kennedy makes plans to expose him.
- 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.
- A dramatic radio play where Bransby Williams gives us his brilliant characterisation of Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge.
- 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.
- Spanish dancer Conchita Piquer performs in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- 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.
- Ko-Ko the clown and his glee club lead the audience in an early follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-along.
- The Victoria Girls, appearing "in their famous dancing medley" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, sing and dance to popular songs "Diane" by Erno Rapee, "Rain" by Eugene Ford, and "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Francis Wheeler.
- The sextet from opera "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Donizetti, based on novel "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Sir Walter Scott, in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
- The subject of this short film is taxation and tax reform
- Koko and Fitz face surrealistic hijinks aboard their train in the cartoon world, before entering the real world and taking control of the train on which Max is a passenger.
- Brooke Johns sings and plays ukulele and Goodee Montgomery sings and dances in this rendition of the song "I'm in Love Again" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Blake plays the neoclassical piece on the piano. The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.
- A short film showing a Curtiss JN-4 ("Jenny") biplane in flight.
- Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators perform in a film made by Lee DeForest for the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- 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.
- Five minute experimental short sound film of politician Al Smith, filmed by Lee De Forest in his De Forest Phonofilm process.
- Actor Bransby Williams appears as the miser in an excerpt of Dickens' novel Bleak House.
- British music hall star George Jackley sings "Everyone's Going to the Dogs (Bow-Wow)" by James Walsh and Val Watson.
- A scene at a train station leads to a sing-along of the title song, followed by an amusing cartoon sing-along of humorous new lyrics about spotting a "married man".
- British music hall star Norah Blaney plays piano and sings "He's Funny That Way" and "How About Me?" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Lee De Forest appears in an early film made in his DeForest Phonofilm process, discussing how the sound-on-film process works.