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- A street corner fast-pitch salesman for something called "Hoak" stops a girl walking by to give his spiel. The miraculous attributes of "Hoak" would seem to cover just about anything you'd want, and the girl, though skeptical, samples some of the wondrous medicine. Unfortunately, he gives her the wrong pill, and she becomes a limp-jointed ventriloquist dummy, complete with a strikingly silly/scary wide-eyed expression. The man puts her on his knee and they do a ventriloquism act. (The "dummy" voice is obviously coming from off screen).
- In a rare filmed record, the famed songwriters and vaudevillians perform. One of De Forest's earliest experimental sound films.
- Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- The highlight of the picture will be the delivery of the Gettysburg Address and the singing of a number of camp-fire songs
- Film shows Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech nominating New York governor Al Smith as candidate for President at the Democratic national convention in New York City on 26 June 1924.
- Russian ballet company Le Chauve-Souris, led by Nikita Balieff, performs "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", part of their Broadway show.
- Vaudeville stars Weber and Fields perform their famous pool hall routine in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Spanish dancer Conchita Piquer performs in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Brooke Johns sings and plays ukulele and Goodee Montgomery sings and dances in this rendition of the song "I'm in Love Again" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Short film of Adolph Zukor, head of Famous Players-Lasky/Paramount, introducing the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.
- New York radio personalities Frank Bessinger and Frank Wright perform as "the Radio Franks" in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Modern dance group Sonia Serova Dancers perform to Grieg's song "To Spring" in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Film shows John W. Davis, candidate for president, during the Democratic national convention in New York City, which met from 24 June to 9 July 1924.
- Borrah Minevitch, billed as the World's Champion Harmonicist, performs in a short film made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- African-American gospel group The Jubilee Four perform in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
- Famous African-American singer Abbie Mitchell sings in an early experimental film made in the DeForest Phonofilm process.
- Film comedian Al Herman performs some of his material.
- Lee De Forest appears in an early film made in his DeForest Phonofilm process, discussing how the sound-on-film process works.
- Poet and writer Edwin Markham recites his poem "Lincoln, the Man of the People" written in 1900 and presented at the opening ceremonies of the Lincoln Memorial on 30 May 1922.