There are plenty of series of shorts, both animated and live-action, you can discover in the silent era. One I was unfamiliar with until recently was the Bobby Bumps series by Bray Productions from 1915-1925. I came across them by accident on the Internet Archive. While inspired by R.F. Outcault’s Buster Brown there is also a bit of hand-of-the-animator didacticism which was present in a few animated silent shorts. Enjoy!

This is just what’s available at the Internet Archive. There are others on YouTube and elsewhere online. For a full list of titles go to the Wikipedia page.