Défilé d’un escadron de cuirassiers, puis du carrosse du prince de Galles acclamé par la foule.
Belgradian parades and everyday street scenes.
The arrival of the Norwegian king in Copenhagen is documented in this early short film.
The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
A wicked king has taken over the Emerald City, and wants his daughter, Princess Gloria to marry the horrid courtier Googly-Goo, though she loves Pon, the Gardener's Boy. The camera follows two farmers placing a Scarecrow upon a pole in a cornfield. Pon rescues a Kansas girl named Dorothy from the evil witch Mombi, whom Princess Gloria has been taken to by King Krewl to freeze her heart so she will no longer love Pon. An Indian princess has a ceremony to bring the Scarecrow to life. Pon rescues the cold-hearted princess and they flee for help, discovering the Scarecrow, who promptly falls in love with the princess, and Button-Bright, a lost boy from America. They come to the castle of the Tin Emperor, Nick Chopper, and after oiling him, he falls in love with Gloria. After a bit of a chase aided by the Sawhorse and the Wizard, Mombi turns Pon into a Kangaroo, and a slough of Fred Woodward's animals battle it out.
Miss Ledyia, daughter of American millionaire Mr. Katson, vacationing in A Toxa (Galicia, Spain), will try to abort an Anarchist assassination plot against the King and Queen of Suavia.
The Roman setting provides ample opportunity for a very high concentration of gag titles, many of which are quite witty and many of which are quaint for deriving their humor from the juxtaposition of having ancient Romans use a lot of hip 1918-era slang. The whole thing is an excuse for a good send-up of how the Roman Empire has been depicted in "serious" plays, movies, &c.
Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.
Hérode a emprisonné Jokaanan qui l'avait attaqué pour son mariage avec sa belle-sœur Hérodias. Cette dernière cherche un stratagème pour se venger du prophète, et songe à inclure sa fille Salomé dans sa vengeance. Salomé, de son côté, est amoureuse de Jokaanan.
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king of the mythical European nation of Bulgravia visits an American health resort. Hero Tim Dugan appoints himself the king's unofficial protector, saving him from the larcenous designs of crooked gambler Arnold Bookstein.
The Portorican prime minister asks British detective Sherlock Holmes to find a twin for King Fernando XXIII, a weak and frightened man who fears anarchists and does not want to show himself in public. Holmes finds in the Czech newspapers a photo of the perfect double, František Lelíček, a daring bon vivant drowned in debt, so when Holmes offers him money, Lelíček decides to travel to Portorico and play the role.
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!
Warner Bros. animated short featuring the song 'Let's Put Out the Lights (and Go to Sleep)'
Comment après avoir usé et assassiné plusieurs femmes, le terrible Henry VIII se laissera mener par le bout du nez jusqu'à un âge avancé par Catherine Parr.
Le bienheureux roi Pausole règne paisiblement sur le royaume de Tryphème, qui n'a ni histoire, ni géographie. Chaque nuit, il choisit l'une des 366 épouses (une par jour, plus une pour les années bissextiles) pour partager sa couche. Toutes vivent dans l'attente de cette unique nuit annuelle. La vie s'écoule calmement jusqu'à l'arrivée d'un sémillant aviateur, Giglio, qui, tombant sous le charme de la fille du roi, la jeune et naïve Princesse Aline, vient bousculer les habitudes du palais et du harem de Pausole, qui finit par se rebeller sous la férule du Grand Eunuque Taxis et de la gouvernante du harem, Dame Perchuque.
On Christmas Eve, the Little King sneaks two tramps into the castle. The next morning, the three men are thrilled by the presents Santa left behind.