“Mammy is washing her little pickaninny. She thrusts him, kicking and struggling, into a tub full of foaming suds.” (Edison film catalog)
An up to date idea and a great picture. The professor sits in his laboratory with his newly invented baby incubator. A mother who is anxious for the growth of her child enters, places her baby in care of the professor, who promptly places it in the incubator. An alcohol lamp is lighted under the apparatus, but the professor evidently gets his machine too hot, for in a few seconds the top is opened and the baby taken out. To the great anger of its mother it has grown about two feet in height and has long hair and a full beard. (Edison Catalog)
It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.
Alice au pays des merveilles est un film muet britannique réalisé par Cecil Hepworth et Percy Stow. C'est la première adaptation filmée de l'œuvre d'Alice au pays des merveilles, le célèbre livre de Lewis Carroll. Le film est notable par son utilisation d'effets spéciaux élaborés, comme la chute dans le terrier du lapin, les changements de taille d'Alice ou la transformation d'un bébé en cochon.
A magical woman and her magical eggs.
The story begins with the finding of a wonderful peach which comes floating down a small stream and is brought to shore by a little Japanese woman, who takes it to her home. It there transpires that she and her husband are still mourning the loss of a baby, and the wonderful peach when it is cut brings healing to their sorrow, for as the father's hands separate the two parts of the luscious fruit, between them miraculously appears the figure of a tiny baby.
A widower becomes infatuated with his daughter's governess, to the displeasure of the child and her nurse.
The adventures of Baby Peggy in her own house.
Dans une île, une jeune femme est convoitée par deux hommes, Peter, pêcheur mysterieux et Philip, riche avocat. Il lui faudra choisir mais aussi assumer la maternité et réagir à l'hostilité des habitants de l'île.
A young man trying to win the attentions of a pretty lady gets lumbered with another woman's baby, beginning a cascade of misunderstandings, close shaves with trams and a humorous policeman…
A man believes that the baby in his livingroom is the "surprise" his wife messaged him about, and must contend with the real father's attempts to get his daughter back.
On the day before his second wedding, a man finds out that his bride-to-be has had a baby.
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp, and clash over which is to be "father." They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own adjacent ranches. Bill, the foundling whom Cash has raised to young manhood, wants to end the feud and extends an olive branch toward Jeff, who now has a lovely daughter. But during a mining venture, the bitterness escalates. Is Bill to be set against his own adoptive father?
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.
After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform. Caricature celebrity depictions include George Arliss, Eddie Cantor, Sonja Henie, Benito Mussolini, Ignacy Paderewski, Edward G. Robinson, Will Rogers, and Ed Wynn. A robbery sequence features bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the case. King Kong also makes an appearance. A Merrie Melody cartoon.
Un bébé avec un doudou en forme de chien tombe dans un monde imaginaire. Les objets y sont animés, les couleurs impossibles. Dans le "Pays de Nullepart", il assiste à un défilé de bouteilles d'huile de castor, de chaises hautes. Ensuite dans le "Jardin Interdit" il y voit des fleurs-marteaux, des fruits-montres, des fontaines-crayons, des oiseaux-ciseaux, et autres objets affutés… Des panneaux "Bébé pas touche" pendent à des arbres… Heureusement, le marchand de sable vient à la rescousse du bébé et l'aide à s'endormir/revenir.
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
Lorsque Popeye emmène le bébé se promener dans la poussette, le petit ne sera pas tranquille s’il ne dort pas. Bien sûr, il n’y a pas de fin au bruit. Cela comprend un sosie de Harpo Marx jouant de la harpe; une école de musique avec de nombreux étudiants pratiquants à l’intérieur; un navire soufflant son klaxon; une radio à l’extérieur d’un magasin de radio; un chantier de construction; et des klaxons de voiture dans la circulation. Popeye n’hésite pas à les faire taire.
Un étudiant en médecine s'éprend d'une serveuse. Il ne peut malgré tout se détourner d'elle.