Mabel’s Bear Escape(1914)

A growing number of onlookers disrupt an archeologist as she tries to work.

Mai and Cañas, a couple of small-time criminals, see their luck change dramatically when a winning lottery ticket lands in their laps.

A newly arrived guest of a Hollywood hotel charms and amazes the regulars, and they decide to invite him to their Christmas dinner.

A very old woman wants to have dinner with her friends. As they are all dead, the butler has to play the role of every guest.

Bimbo becomes a long distance accordion champ and comes through with a load of credit.

Three witches are trying to lower the water level in their flooded house. However, a dramatic incident occurs.

A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.

A black comedy about a man struggling to make a living by helping people kill themselves.

A young man’s surprise birthday dinner for his girlfriend is not met with the response he was expecting, which leads to the most frightful night of their lives.

From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home, an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.

At the start of his career Harry Depp appeared often in short comedies, and was employed by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Company in 1916-17. Very little information is available on The Bookworm Turns but, as Depp was particularly well-known for appearing in movies that required him to don female clothing, we might expect to see him in drag at some point in this one.