Six sketches, featuring off-screen human voices and on-screen chimpanzees in men's clothing, illustrating six aspects of movie making: script writing, using a camera, working in a darkroom, editing, art and animation, and shooting a scene with special attention to sound. The screen goes black between each sketch. The narration is straightforward with the chimps providing comic, contradicting subtexts.
In a conflict between reason and impulse, a machine and an ape struggle for control of Chris Harding's brain.
"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and goes through a series of queer antics. The part of the monkey is taken by a skilled acrobat; and his work in this scene is of a particularly clever sort." (AMB Picture Catalogue)
Things might get a little too curious for George!
Santa Claus arrives at the home of two children and proceeds to tell them stories about monkeys and the nature of his existence.
A hunter is exploring through the rain forest and stumbles upon an orangutan. The hunter is approached by an angel and a devil, who both try to convince him on what action he should take. All while the poor orangutan begs for his life. What will the hunter do?
An Aesop's Fables cartoon with monkeys monkeying around.
A robust housekeeper loses control of her new pet monkey, and it quickly trashes her middle-class employer’s home.
Story of a little Javanese boy who adopts a monkey.
A pioneering effort in bringing shadow puppetry to the cinema.
A group of conservationists take on the task of revitalizing the Balancán, Tabasco, research station and protect the howler monkey.
Bigorno gets a visit to his seaside estate from a traveler, who brings a monkey and bric-a-brac for his wife and mother-in-law, and some opium for him.
After discovering that his two money launderers, Cleveland and Carlos, had been stealing portions of the money they'd been given to launder over the years, Don Ramos hunts them down.
This very brief cartoon from Japan whose title translated means "The Monkey Fleet" and runs little more than a minute has the Asian monkeys battling octopuses as they both go underwater with the simian animals riding in submarines shooting their torpedo bullets at the sea creatures.
The oldest surviving animated film from Brazil. The only animal in a zoo, a monkey, escapes its cage, causing a lot of trouble.
A man is listening to music when he hears yelling from downstairs, he runs downstairs to see a toy monkey, then a second version of himself dies
Wachiwi and her little brother Peopeo live alone inside a fenced garden. While Peopeo dreams of novelty, Wachiwi determines the boundaries that should ensure their protection.
The Farmer is abducted by a capering Jungle Goddess. As pre-Code as a Terrytoon ever got. Most animation is by Frank Moser; with him are Art Babbitt, Jerry Shields, Bill Tytla and others.
Another of the "Variety Views" continuing adventures with Shorty the Chimp getting loose and running amok. Tired of waiting at the fire house for a blaze, Shorty sets one in the building himself. At another fire, Shorty makes a jungle-style rescue by climbing hand-over-hand on wires leading into a building.
A hitchhiking pirate gets caught up in a life of crime with a gang of small people.