Fresh from the Farm 1921
Harry comes to the city as a hick, and immediately runs into a silk hatted slicker who relieves him of his valuables. Soon Harry gets suspicious of everybody, and thinks that every accident is a plot to ruin him.
Harry comes to the city as a hick, and immediately runs into a silk hatted slicker who relieves him of his valuables. Soon Harry gets suspicious of everybody, and thinks that every accident is a plot to ruin him.
This is the story of the heartless mother whose burdens are such that she would be rid of her two children. The henpecked father is compelled to take them to the woods and there lose them. Gretel drops bread-crumbs to find her way home, but wild-fowl eat the crumbs and they are truly lost. The babes wander to the home of a witch, who would fatten them up to make ginger-bread of them. As they are about to be thrown into the blazing furnace Peggy outwits the witch, and, in turn, the witch is thrust into the roaring flames, as the mother, repentant, heads the neighbors in the work of rescue.
A feisty homeless orphan girl struggles with winter cold and hunger.
George working at a construction site.
A Baby Peggy two-reeler
A pint-sized Mountie pursues a gang of moonshiners.
Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.
Weazel Tail Bend was so crooked it couldn't see straight, but one day the town was brightened considerably by the arrival of Miss Betsy Beautiful, whom the School Trustee sent to relieve the sheriff of one of his duties teaching school.
The 'secretary' of a busy newspaperman is revealed to be a cherubic small child, Baby Peggy. When a rich woman's pearl necklace is stolen, Baby Peggy's employer promises to make the reporter who cracks the case Editor-in-Chief. The little girl seizes the opportunity, and - several disguises and chases later, with the grudging aid of the office-boy - duly returns with the jewels to achieve promotion, with all the adults scurrying to serve her.
18th episode in the Newlyweds and Their Baby 2-reel comedy series and Snookums compile a list of toys he wants from Santa.
Al is the assistant shipping clerk. He plants himself on top of a mass of crates and fishes valises up with a line attached to a rod and reel. He accidentally catches his boss and the latter runs him ragged before he escapes. Al discovers a crate marked for a Mrs. Wilson - a police dog from Germany. He opens the crate. The hound runs free. Al pursues.
A Universal Pictures comedy short
Trimble, Pete and Mary Jane take in a movie and then decide to go out west by riding the rails. When they get off, they run into a movie company shooting a western.
Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the boys across the ferry mop up Bill Hohenzollern's place, tries very hard to join the Red Cross. After various tests she is finally rejected. Since this plan didn't work out she decides to join the kaiser-killers herself and so enters the recruiting station right next door. Here she is again rejected because of a flat head. Having failed twice she goes home feeling that she needs a little training and uses poor delicate little hubby as the goat. While Magnolia is still hard at work training with some dummies, hubby gets a note from Nicholas Nutmeg inviting him to a game of poker, but also inviting his little bank roll. Magnolia sees the note, becomes furious, and here follow some lively chases which end with hubby in jail and Magnolia trying hard to enlist in the army.
Incidental to the business of getting married and living scrappily ever after, Charlie and Louise are engaged on a flivver jaunt. Charlie has invited Louise along, never dreaming that she would invite the family. But the girl has asked dad, and dad asks mother, and mother invites grandpa and grandma, and they in turn invite the children.
A 1921 American silent short film directed by Fred Hibbard for Century Film Company and starring Baby Peggy and Brownie the dog. It was rediscovered in Switzerland in 2010.
Second Episode in the "Mike and Ike" two-reel comedy series and Ike is about to get married, wanting Mike to be his best man.
Pal the dog saves a kidnapped baby from raging waterfalls and hungry alligators. (MoMA)