The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays

The Bugle Call

August 1927 •English

Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.

The Marriage Maker

September 1923 •English

A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuade a poverty-stricken nobleman to marry the commoner he loves.

The Miracle of Life

October 1915 •English

A young bride takes a drug that ends her pregnancy, and her husband divorces her. In the future, she is visited by the ghost of her "Child-That-Might-Have-Been" and taken to see her ex-husband (happily married with children), a land where the children of the future wait to be born, and her future damnation to hell.

Les incohérences de Boireau

January 1913 •French

Boireau is sleeping in his bed, floating in the air, when a fire wakes him. So he takes his gun and shoots a fish down from the sky...

Beauty and the Beast

January 1899 •French

She

April 1917 •English

A centuries-lasting relationship between Ayesha and her oft-reincarnated true love. She, H. Rider Haggard's fanciful novel about the immortal queen of a lost tribe, has been filmed at least 10 times, with seven versions emerging between the years 1910 and 1930. A lost film.

The Gaucho

November 1927 •English

A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich with gold from the grateful worshipers. Ruiz, an evil and sadistic general, captures the city, confiscates the gold, and closes the shrine. But the Gaucho, the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws, comes to the rescue.

The Spider and the Butterfly

February 1909 •French

Surviving fragment of a longer film. A magician makes a butterfly woman appear, and a woman in a star. Exhausted, the magician falls asleep and the star woman turns into a spider, dragging the butterfly into her web.

The Call of the Circus

July 1910 •English

A circus girl must decide to stay under the big top or marry the minister who loves her.

Love's Stratagem

November 1909 •English

Nell Connors is in love with Jack, a sailor, but is unaware that he was shipwrecked and is facing trials. Meanwhile, her father is saved from drowning by Captain Tom. Captain Tom, long in love with Nell proposes, and her father encourages her to accept, believing Jack has forgotten her.

The Troubadour

September 1906 •French

On an elaborately decorated stage, the titular troubadour of the title bows. He then proceeds to pull several cards out of mid air and arrange them on the floor. Then, taking a banjo he multiplies himself into seven different troubadours, each playing a different musical instrument. A moment later, they all vanish and we are left with the troubadour who we were first introduced to at the beginning of the film. He explodes in a puff of smoke, and an enormous fan appears and unfolds. On it appears a vision of a castle tower with a maiden in it, and the troubadour outside the tower window, talking to her. The vision dissolves, and the troubadour bows, thus ending his performance.

The Judgment of Paris

August 1902 •

Three goddesses, Venus, Juno and Minerva each of whom claims to be the most beautiful, call a shepherd "Paris" and ask him to decide the question and to give an apple which he holds in his hand on the one whom he considers to be the prettiest.

The Cup of Life

August 1921 •English

Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chinese merchant Chan Chang for his daughter Pain, a young white girl he had adopted. Warren Bradford, Brand's ward, returns from college and falls in love with Chang's daughter.

The '?' Motorist

October 1906 •English

A magical glowing white motorcar ignores policemen, drives up buildings, flies through outer space, and can transform into a horse and carriage.

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain

November 1918 •English

In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.

The Dark Star

August 1919 •English

A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications...

Diabolo Nightmare

October 1907 •English

A clerk, unable to stop playing the game of Diabolo, strays in and out of precarious situations while playing with the toy.

King of Dollars

April 1905 •French

A magician shows tricks with money.

The Prussian Spy

March 1909 •English

Lady Florence hides her lover, a Prussian spy, from the French troops who are hunting for him. One of her other suitors, a French officer, discovers the hiding place and threatens to kill the spy.

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

September 1995 •English

A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.