Tom Shirley

Mrs. Mulligan, although in poor circumstances, taken the child of her neighbor, who has just passed into another world, to live with her. Dolly becomes quite chummy with Tom, one of Mrs. Mulligan's sons, and during the child's saddest hours Tom comforts her. Tom proposes that Dotty write a letter to her mother in heaven asking her to come back.

Tom and Dick, young boys of the country, are chums. Their sorrows and joys are shared; what belongs to one belongs to the other. One beautiful summer morn, Eleanor, a pretty young miss from the city, comes to the small town to visit a relative. Tom and Dick cease to be friends; jealousy coming between the two lads.

Jack Lane is returning from the East after an unsuccessful attempt to obtain a loan to pay off the mortgage on his father's ranch. On the train, he meets Ellen Rand, who is smitten at the sight of her first real cowboy. Later he learns that she is the nurse who is to care for his paralytic father, growing weaker at the prospect of losing his ranch. Jack plans to enter the local rodeo to earn the money, though Morton Kane, who holds the mortgage and has secretly discovered oil on the ranch, plots with his son Ross to keep him from the events.

Little Red Riding Hood leaves home with a basket of sweets for her grandmother, who lives on the other side of the great forest. Along the way, she meets the wolf, who suggests a race between the two of them to her grandmother's hut. The wolf arrives first, of course, and after throwing her grandmother under the bed, he puts on the old lady's nightwear and waits for Little Red Riding Hood. He's about to eat the little girl when the woodcutters arrive and kill him.

Following the birth of the helicopter, from the imagination of Leonardo da Vinci through the advent of helicopter technology in the early 1952.

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.