Catch

A hungry lion is captured, shortly after being tricked by a hunter. He escapes his cage and robs a hot dog stand. A chase ensues when the police pursue him.

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime.

An obnoxious cat, wearing roller skates, leads Al Falfa on a merry chase. The frisky feline then puts skates on the unsuspecting farmer, propelling him right into a mean canine traffic cop.

Jumping the Blanket.

A lad from a butcher shop is carrying a tray laden with a roast or a leg of lamb. A hobo grabs it and runs. The boy gives chase, ed by dogs, as neighbors watch the spectacle. The hobo jumps into a lar…

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

Fatty and his domineering wife visit the park, where they encounter a pair of pickpockets.

Felix is hungry, but his owner won't feed him until he's finished his crossword puzzle! Only one word left -- a 7-letter "chiefly found in Russia." Felix goes all the way to Russia to find the answer, but…

Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Pha…

Four men stand holding what appears to be a blanket, while one wearing a hat stands watching. A sixth man then runs towards them and attempts to jump into the blanket.

A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have ed the pursuit. But the chase does not turn out as the policemen expect.

A tramp kills a generous woman. In revenge, her husband tracks down and lynches the tramp.

When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent o…

A man, holding a baby up in his hands, is standing next to a fishbowl. The baby is trying, in vain, to catch a goldfish with her bare hands.

Mistaking a tiger's tail for a snake, Colonel Heeza Liar puts himself in wrong with a big tiger, who gives him a very bad quarter of an hour, until the matchless courage and ingenuity of our hero overcome…

Mice sold into slavery and driven to pick cotton by whip-cracking cats plot their escape to freedom.

A woodsman leaves a hut followed by a woman with their baby. Nearby some men chop down a tree. The baby is left outside the hut, but an eagle flies away with it.

ELEANOR'S CATCH is a delightful short, directed by and starring Cleo Madison. A successful actress, Madison was one of many women who directed films at Universal, particularly in the mid 1910s. In this tw…

Max draws a tattoo of a cat on his coworker, and Fitz chases the cat around when the tattoo comes to life.

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.