The films range from 3 to 20 minutes in length. Blanch Sweet plays a telegraph operator who outwits a pair of robbers attempting to hold up the railroad station. An inventor demonstrates his gadgets. A house is rigged with innumerable electric gadgets none of which seem to work right. An example of hand-coloring, the classic trick film is complete with strange Faustian characters.
Amusing microbes do tricks, fascinating a bewildered scientist.
In a drunken state, Chaplin disrupts a series of music hall acts creating a few of his own. Butterfly hunter has the tables turned on him in this early fantasy, accented with hand-coloring and special effects. All films are from UCSD s Film and Video Library, curated by Stephen O Riordan. A window display about silent film music and the pit orchestra is featured in the Music Library, directly below the Seuss Room. On display are pit orchestra instruments, film equipment, books and holdings from the library s collection about silent movie music and movie scores.