Edwin R. Phillips

Short anti-war film in which a French musician turns out to be a German spy.

Helen, an heiress and the ward of Martin Talbot, is interested in charity and rescue work; she is vice president of the League of Mercy. Talbot's son makes love to her and her riches. In her visitations among the sick and poor she finds a young girl with a child. She takes the young mother to her home, aid and comforts her; tries to restore her to health. While she is thus engaged young Talbot, to whom she becomes affianced, enters. The young mother recognizes him as the father of her child.

The picture opens with Napoleon at Malmaison after the battle of Waterloo. He visits the room where Josephine died, enters slowly, walks sadly around, looks at her portrait, then sits in a chair and falls asleep. In successive visions he sees Marengo: The Austrians' charge. Napoleon, with his generals, passes. The "wall of granite" is impregnable. Napoleon, Emperor: The Coronation scene. Court assembled in Notre Dame. The Pope blesses Napoleon. (imdb)

A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory. (eyefilm.nl)

PART I. The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and lending up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. Tom is a peculiarly extraordinary character, possessing all the virtues and none of the bad qualities of his race, a possession brought about by a gradual realization, absorption and practice of Christian principles through a close study of the Bible.

One of Phil's most redeeming qualities is his love for children, which is easily seen when the poor fellow is in a railroad coach being taken handcuffed to prison. In the seat next to him is a little child, Dotty. The train stops and the sheriff and his prisoner leave the car and the convicted man is next seen in stripes, working in the prison shoe shop--until he jumps out the prison window, plunges into the river, and starts his long swim to freedom.