1922 in Film

Snub writes a scenario and goes to the local theater to see the picture. After a good deal of trouble he and his wife succeed in getting into the house, but are unable to find two seats together. The center aisle is built very steep, and the ushers are dressed like Alpine climbers. This provides a great deal of action for those who must climb up, and those who slide into their seats. Then comes the film. The main title tells that the picture is made by the "Shameless Film Co." As Snub's seat is up against the screen he sees the picture greatly distorted. The picture shown on the screen satires the current melodrama, and will bring a laugh in itself. The comedy ends in a free-for-all fight.

The owners of a movie studio are having problems with a temperamental director, and they promise an actor on one of his pictures that he can have the job if he can find a way to make the director leave the picture.

Snub is employed in an office. The boss is to dine with him and wants a little "nip." Snub goes home and proceeds to drop the precious bottle. Then begins a wild chase for another one, which, when procured, meets with like disaster. Wifey comes to the rescue, and all is hunky dory with Snub guarding the valuable liquid with a shot gun when word comes that the boss cannot come.

A couple is seeking a divorce. In court, the wife tells her story of how the husband comes home intoxicated and while she is working over the washtub, treats her brutally. The husband then tells his side, which is exactly opposite, how he came home tired, found nothing to eat, piles of dirty dishes, etc., and men hidden under tables and in closets. The matter is finally settled, when the landlady is called to the stand and tells the truth about the matter, which ends in a reconciliation.

Women rule the world in this vision of the future. Men wearing frills and lace, women in charge is the least of the zany future envisioned in this film, sure to be banned in Tennessee.

The governor's (Snub) life is in constant jeopardy because of the bomb throwers who use every conceivable means to get him.

Stage-door-Johnnie Snub worships Marie. She's the star of a second rate stage show, a civil war melodrama. When they come up an actor short, Snub is pressed into service to play the part of a Confederate General.

Snub is the chief engineer of a peanut and fruit stand. Bad boys steal his peanuts and the cop on the beat helps himself to his fruit. He is facing ruination when he decides to undertake a plan of action. Securing a policeman's uniform, he raids his competitor's stand. Everything is doing well when he meets the real cop and a chase follows. Reckless Rosie, dashing down the road, smashes into Snub's peanut wagon and splinters it to bits. She helps him to escape from the cop and leads him to the "Mission House"." Here a good deal of comedy business follows and in the end Snub shows his credentials and arrests the cop; he is the prohibition officer of the district.

Snub puts over some amusing hokum in his efforts to be arrested. He attempts several ideas to locate behind the bars but fails miserably because his actions are accepted as heroic feats. Then by accident he is arrested and confined in the same cell with a notorious jewel robber. The governor visits the prison on a tour of inspection. He looks over the convicts and approaching one quite closely is brushed aside. Whereupon the crook says, "Pardon me." The governor, not to be outdone in politeness, replies, "Certainly." So the prisoner ceases work and runs for dear life.

Snub, as a dog catcher operating without a net, uses a fishing pole and a hunk of liver as bait. Marie's father buys a new dog, but it runs away straight to the noble Nimrod. Snub takes the animal back home and incidentally starts a mild flirtation. Marie enters her pet in the dog show, but a villain happens along and clips his hair. Snub is ingenious enough to hoodwink the judges. He places the dog through Marie's muff and the pet wins the prize.

Valuable jewels have been stolen by the owner of the paper where Snub works. Snub recovers the jewels, gets the reward and a scoop on the story.

Snub goes to visit his bride's people. Marie has four husky brothers who shoe horses, spit fire, and play ball with an anvil. They take Snub right into their family and treat him like a brother; but the anvil that they throw nearly kills him. A good laugh is produced when Snub is sent flying and you see him cross the state lines of Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. His last stop is the Pacific Ocean. He manages to return, however, and again joins his four brothers in the anvil chorus.

Snub has a lot of fun trying to get rid of his job. He does everything he can to torment his boss but still is not fired. At length he knocks him down and serves notice upon him. But just as he does this along comes a telegram which tells about a large sum of money that Snub is to inherit provided he still has his job.

The scene is set in the time designated by the title, with the performers costumed appropriately in animal skins and existing under contemporary living conditions with just enough modern appurtenances to make it laughably absurd.

The monkey gland operation is about to be performed upon Snub. A flash-back shows how the lack of pep has affected his spirits. While under ether he dreams that he has become an ape and is forced to swing upon the chandeliers and walk up the sides of the buildings. He wakes up just before the operation is performed and takes the chance to beat it out of the hospital. The horror of the dream gives him more pep than monkey glands.

Snub takes a job as handy man to one of the pests who is ever saying - "this is going to hurt a little" - and his work is pulling teeth. A heavy weight is attached to pulleys and the forceps hooked onto a cord. Thus the tooth is pulled automatically. Naturally such effective treatment spoils the business of a rival dentist. So the latter plots to discredit his colleague. His scheme is to use tooth cement to keep the teeth firm and foil the pulley machine. Snub gets a real inspiration, by attaching the rope to a trolley car and then to the door knob and as the police enter the tooth is extracted.

Snub, securing a wishing carpet, is carried through the air to a mythical land where he gets into all sorts of scrapes and is glad to get back home.

Snub and Marie purchase a house guaranteed to be on a dry spot, but which proves to be when it rains a real floating home.

Marie's inebriated husband refuses to go to bed, so she asks Snub, a homeless man she finds sleeping in the park, to assist.

Eddie suspects his wife of having an affair with Snub. Snub, meanwhile, just wants to get to work on time.

A visiting New Yorker inspires the hotel keeper toward improving his establishment.

Looking back on his younger days, Snub recounts how he outwitted his rival for Marie's affections. In the present day he gets back at his rival, who is now suffering from gout.

Newlyweds have a baby wished on them as a wedding present. Someone steals the baby along with all of the furniture and the chase to recover the little tot when its mother demands its return begins.

An old man, with many branches to his family tree, attempts to make the quarrelsome crew live in harmony by promising them his money if they will all build houses on the same plot of ground and live peacefully for one year. Not having room on the lot, one family takes to the air, hitching its home to a balloon. This creates a disturbing element by reason of the things that fall overboard. But when the year is up, and there has been a reasonable amount of peace, the old man starts to divide his fortune, but is mistaken by all the heirs except one for a "faker," and the lucky one is rewarded with the entire estate.

Snub is the pilot of a ferry boat who has not renewed his license since 1891 and must pay up or lose his boat.