Rudolf Carlsson, who works at a department store, dreams of making movies.

Conscript Fridolf and his sergeant, Göransson, both try to win the love of sweet Mary. According to an older relative's last will, she will inherit a fortune if she marries the unfortunate Dick Carter. A con man comes to the little town, claiming to be the legitimate Carter.

In the Swedish small town Kungshamn the journalist Fridolf Svensson writes for the local newspaper Allehanda.

A quick overview of Swedish film history, featuring a breathtaking cavalry of scenes from about 170 films.

In a sham ceremony at the city hall, the dimwitted Fridolf is married to Margit. It doesn't take long, however, before he is arrested for bigamy. His first wife left him a few years ago, but Fridolf isn't very bright and he thought that she was dead when she wrote a letter to him saying that. She ran off to join a circus. By a coincidence, the circus is visiting Fridolf's home town and Fridolf goes to the circus with a free ticket. But at the circus all he can do is make a fool of himself.

Early sound film. Quirky Fridolf, with the benevolent help of an "amateur singer", prefers a couple of accordion couplets.

Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been lost and the only surviving fragments can be found in this film.

A tribute to Swedish film, which was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of film in 1995 and consists of about a hundred clips from Swedish film history with many of its stars.

It's Walpurgis Night in Uppsala. The students sing the Student Song, put on their white caps, cheer and have drinks.

The Sjölund family on Lillholmen in the archipelago of Stockholm is quite religious and is considered suitable for dealing with odd specimens of wild youth placed there by one of Stockholm's youth associations for young girls.