Genre Short

Bell Boy 13

Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde. He causes so much confusion that Uncle Elrod buys the hotel so that he…

No Noise

Entertaining Our Gang comedy has poor Mickey in the hospital being fed castor oil when his friends stop by to pay him a visit. As you’d expect, the kids start making all sorts of noise so the doctors decide to…

Oranges and Lemons

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing…

The Gown Shop

Here we have ‘The Gown Shop’, very much in Semon’s usual style but with fewer laughs than usual. Semon plays his default character, a grotesque hard-working incompetent. (I’m going to be using the word ‘grotesque’ a lot in this particular…

Horseshoes

A boxer offers $50 to anyone who can stay in the ring with him for an entire minute. Larry, through a series of mix-ups–including hitting the boxer in the face with a tomato–winds up in the ring with him but,…

Giants vs. Yanks

The gang, after a premature end to their baseball game, find themselves quarantined in an elegant home, which they proceed to destroy.

A Man About Town

A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady– so he follows her all over town.

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