Movies: Jackie Lynn Taylor

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home....

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison....

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne....

The gang decides to build their own fire engine....

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters....