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poster Onesime, Clockmaker

Onesime, Clockmaker

8mn - Sci-Fi, Comedy

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activity on earth, hyper-animates men and machines, and telescopes the human life-cycle.

poster A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm

An office worker takes desperate measures in an attempt to get up on time in the morning.

Perfect Profile

Brad Johnson is a successful young manager who owns a millions dollar heavy company. He believes the key to his success was trusting in the forecasts of his computers. So he wants to use the same method t…

poster Anything Once!

Anything Once!

ANYTHING ONCE! is a Cinderella story. Mabel works in a tailor shop, pressing clothes and dreaming of a better life. We're told that she's taken a lot of bumps in life and doesn't know where the next bump …

poster The One-Man Band

The One-Man Band

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy, Music

A band-leader has arranged seven chairs for the members of his band. When he sits down in the first chair, a cymbal player appears in the same chair, then rises and sits in the next chair. As the cymbal p…

poster Max's First Job

Max's First Job

Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max is summoned to Joinville studios. His first role is that of a husband who comes home late.

poster The Sawmill

The Sawmill

28mn - Comedy, Romance, Action

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

poster Behind Office Doors

Behind Office Doors

82mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.

poster The Show

The Show

25mn - Comedy, Action

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.

poster The Midnight Limited

The Midnight Limited

0mn - Action, Adventure, Mystery

poster Hector's Hectic Life

Hector's Hectic Life

6mn - Animation, Comedy

Hector is a dog with an easy life and the run of the house when the lady of the house gives him a warning...one more mess and you're out. Hector would be okay if not for the fact that three little puppies…

poster A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

11mn - Fantasy, Drama

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that await…

poster The Yawner

The Yawner

A top-hatted man gets dressed in the morning, and starts to yawn, causing his housekeeper to yawn as well. He sets off down the street where he proceeds to make others yawn as well, including a shop keepe…

poster Stick Around

Stick Around

A paperhanger and his helper arrive at a sanitarium to do a job. The chubby paperhanger leaves most of the work to his thin assistant, who tries gamely but usually makes a mess. Various patients at the as…

poster Next Aisle Over

Next Aisle Over

A salesman takes a job at a department store to impress a girl and winds up stopping a kidnapping.

poster A Hundred Tricks

A Hundred Tricks

poster Oranges and Lemons

Oranges and Lemons

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside …

poster In the Barber Shop

In the Barber Shop

One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.

poster Scullion's Dream

Scullion's Dream

7mn - Comedy, Fantasy

When the entire kitchen staff falls asleep from exhaustion, a dwarf appears and animates various objects via stop motion -- including their hands, which he cuts off while they snooze -- to do their work.

poster Matrimony's Speed Limit

Matrimony's Speed Limit

A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

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