Short Subjects
Lost from the company are a series of four short subjects titled Violet's Dreams, which starred Violet MacMillan and Fred Woodward. This was the whole of the company's new output in 1915 prior to the name change.
- A Box of Bandits (based on Baum's short story, "The Box of Robbers" from American Fairy Tales)
- The Country Circus
- The Magic Bon Bons (based on Baum's short story, "The Magic Bon-Bons", also from American Fairy Tales
- In Dreamy Jungleland (working title: "The Jungle")
Each of these films depicted Violet's interaction with animals (played by Woodward), and magical opportunities to do things she is otherwise not allowed to do, such as visit a country circus prohibited to her because of her gender.
George Cochrane produced a film in 1917 based on these materials titled Like Babes in the Woods. This film should not be confused with The Babes in the Woods, an adaptation of the Hansel and Gretel story made by Chester Franklin and Sidney Franklin, also from 1917. The Babes in the Woods has been released on videocassette; Like Babes in the Woods is a lost film.
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