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Alice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards which then come to life to engage in a parade and dance with Alice.

A video reconstruction of the lost film 'Cleopatra' starring Theda Bara, utilizing the last surviving clip and more than five hundred still photos taken during the original production.

In this 10th episode, Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate by night 'The Gables' house where two mysterious deaths happened: two servants died of fear. Inspector Weymouth thinks they are connected to Fu-Manchu.

To a rooming house which has fallen on hard times comes The Stranger, an unknown but gentle man who is given the back room on the third floor. His arrival marks a change in the lives of all the boarders, from the girl resisting her parents' pleas that she marry the lecherous Mr. Wright, to an architect and a pianist, both of whose dreams are near destruction from their own discouragement.

The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.

After a strenuous set-to with his domineering spouse, Rip Van Winkle is driven from his home and seeks solace in the neighboring mountains. He meets some dwarfs and helps them push a huge cask up a steep hill only to find, after his labor, he has given a free ride to some lazy dwarfs concealed therein. He engages in a game of bowls with them, but they bewitch the pins and he loses. Consoling himself with quaffing some of their potent ale, he falls asleep and wakes up twenty years afterwards. He and his dog - both with beards - seek out their former haunts. They find times have changed. Mrs. Van Winkle is still a flapper, the children are full-grown and the village is a thriving town. He is welcomed back to the family hearth, however, and all ends happily.

This animated insight into silent cinema-going is more fanciful than factual, and relishes in poking fun at the films of its time. Ever wondered what it was like to run a cinema in the 1920s? Well it was probably nothing like how it is shown in this film, but who cares when it is such great fun? Dudley Buxton was a comic illustrator and postcard artist who started making cartoon propaganda films in WW1. His "Memoirs of Miffy" series was an attempt to continue his success into the 1920s, but like most other British animators the competition of American animation proved too strong. Dudley Buxton's contribution to the development of film cartoons in Britain is sadly little known. He tried to move the industry on from cut-out animation to using the cel technique so common in the US. However lack of investment in the UK and favourable distribution terms for American series like Felix the Cat made it impossible to compete on level terms. Buxton continued as a key but anonymous figure in British animation into the mid-1930s, but is today better known for his saucy postcards.

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.

An Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his drinking problem.

Lord Shiva blesses Bhasmasur with the power to burn anyone by placing his hand on their head. When the demon decides to misuse it against the former, Lord Vishnu decides to teach him a lesson.