Shorts 1927
All short movies I have seen from 1927 ranked from best to worst.
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- DirectorWalt DisneyUb IwerksOswald attempts to win the affections of another rabbit by pretending to be a beach life guard.
- DirectorWalt DisneyOswald battles a mischievous cat for possession of both his girlfriend and his bicycle.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe Country Rat visits his friend, the Town Rat, but finds that life in the great metropolis is rather too hectic (and dangerous - there's a live cat among all the puppet rats!)
- DirectorFred GuiolHal RoachStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyAnita GarvinA con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
- DirectorWalt DisneyOswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with limited success. They finally do get going, sailing around the barnyard offering milk to denizens of the farm. When kidnappers arrive and takes Oswald's girlfriend away, he and the cow set off to rescue her.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsCharley ChaseOliver HardyMartha SleeperIgnoring her father's attempts to counsel her, a young woman races off to a sale at a store. Chased by a motorcycle policeman, she eventually wins him over with the help of a friendly millionaire. Meanwhile, her father desperately needs to retrieve a compromising letter that he once wrote, and he will need help to do it.
- DirectorWalt DisneyOswald the Rabbit is the conductor on a runaway trolley.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJack AdamsA scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyChester A. BachmanAn escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.
- DirectorOtto Messmer
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix, working in a laboratory, inspects test tubes and finds Golf germs and Love germs, who are annoyed at his interrupting their romantic endeavors.
- DirectorWalt DisneyUb IwerksOswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund lifted into the air by balloons. Meanwhile, his peg-legged rival tries to cheat his way to victory.
- DirectorFred GuiolF. Richard JonesStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMae BuschCaught between a rock and a hard place, an honest man has to cover for his partner's shenanigans when an old flame threatens to destroy both his career and his marriage with a compromising photograph. Will she spare him?
- DirectorOskar FischingerExperience in animating a silhouette, with brief essays on three-dimensional dolls, charcoal drawings, cut paper. The main silhouette of the film explores the actions of two bellies in a tavern.
- DirectorDave FleischerBell Telephone instructional film shows how - and how not - to treat your upright desk telephone set. Don't wiggle the hook excessively, don't tangle the cord, keep away from water, etc.
- DirectorMan RayStarsKiki of MontparnasseJacques RigautA long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she's only fooling. Those were her eyelids.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix tries for a big money prize for the first solo flight to Timbucktoo. He makes a plane out of a barrel, flies over and under the ocean, fighting off sea creatures. Arriving in Africa, he encounters unfriendly animals and tribesmen.
- DirectorWalt DisneyOswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfriend is working.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix, bawled out by his wife and told to get some money creates ingenious methods for bringing money home.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMadeline HurlockTo flee from a tireless Forest Ranger, the shabby vagrants, Stan and Ollie, find refuge at a colonel's mansion that is vacant for the weekend. Soon, a couple of newly-weds arrive in hopes of renting the manor. Where is the rightful owner?
- DirectorJean RenoirStarsCatherine HesslingJohnny HudginsPierre BraunbergerShot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames FinlaysonThrown in prison for a hundred years, Little Goofy and Big Goofy finally break free, posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters. Soon, the boys wind up in a private party as visiting French dignitaries; however, who are they kidding?
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix is determined to win the fair Juliet for himself.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyChester A. BachmanPompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder, greets his nephew from Scotland, who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.
- DirectorOtto Messmer
- DirectorFred GuiolLeo McCareyStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames FinlaysonRich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. His lawyer (Laurel) is called in to straighten things out when a blackmail attempt is made. Wild chases through a dance hall and amusement park ensue.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix gets involved in some surreal Halloween pranks, then visits a fortune-telling owl who foretells romance. But can Felix find the cat of his dreams on such a spooky night?
- DirectorWalt DisneyStarsLois HardwickAlice is dancing aboard her ship with a veritable zoo of a crew. Meanwhile, in the galley, the chef (a cat) is preparing food while his assistant, a mouse, is peeling potatoes. When the chef complains that they need eggs, the mouse is enlisted to retrieve them from the crow's nest. The birds there give him a rough time, but he's eventually able to capture one and strong-arm three eggs out of it. When he returns, though, he finds the chef now wants some milk, and so he's off to find the ship's goat, with similar comedic results.
- DirectorOtto MessmerA hungry Felix fails at trying to catch a mouse, a chicken and a jumping bean, so decides to eat a shoe, which gives him weird and scary hallucinations.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames FinlaysonDimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyPriscilla DeanNeglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman to play a literary genius at a party and flirt with her.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyViola RichardThe Merry Maiden's tough captain sets his sights on the love-smitten Willie Brisling's charming fiancée and kidnaps her. Now, she is a prisoner of love. Will the adulterous sea captain get away with cheating?
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix tries to get into a snooty nightclub, and is told that only people of "unquestioned lineage" are allowed in. Felix then relates his family history, including how his ancestors taught the Egyptian pharaohs how to do the Charleston and another one who showed Columbus that the world was round. In the end, Felix brings his family tree--literally--into the club to prove his lineage.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix the Cat discovers that war is only heck; it's marriage that's hell.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix the Cat comes home late after a night of drunken revelry at a nightclub. He tells his rolling pin-wielding wife three ludicrous tales to explain himself.
- DirectorWalt DisneyStarsLois HardwickAlice and Julius are getting ready for their big performance at the circus while many of the other acts are being showcased. They are acrobats, with Julius balancing on a tightrope holding several stacked chairs, and Alice sitting atop the topmost chair. When Julius lights a cigar he accidentally throws the match onto the rope, burning it and sending them clattering to the ground.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMax DavidsonMishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
- DirectorHarry BaileyJohn FosterFarmer Al Falfa takes a strong drink at a speakeasy and floats up to the heavens, where he has crazy misadventures on weird planets.