Polly Tix in Washington (1933)

Director:

Charles Lamont

Writer:

Charles Lamont (writer)

Release Date:

4 June 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Short

Plot Keywords:

Diaper

Cast

Shirley Temple	...	Polly Tix
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eugene Butler	...	Country Politician
Gloria Ann Mack	...	The Little Sister
Georgie Smith	...	Corrupt Politician
Philip Hurlic	...	Dynamite (uncredited)

Directed by
Charles Lamont

Writing credits
Charles Lamont		(writer)

Produced by
Jack Hays	....	producer

Cinematography by
Dwight Warren

Film Editing by
Arthur Ellis

Sound Department
W.C. Smith	....	sound director

Music Department
Alfonso Corelli	....	musical director

Production Companies

• Jack Hays Productions
• Educational Films Corporation of America

Distributors

• Fox Film Corporation (1933) (USA) (theatrical)
• A-1 Video (????) (USA) (DVD)
• GoodTimes Home Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Grapevine Video (????) (USA) (VHS)
• Mill Creek Entertainment (2011) (USA) (DVD)
• Passport Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

USA:11 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Jack Hays Productions

Trivia:

The script required Shirley Temple to take a ride in an ostrich drawn card, but the frightened ostrich ran and almost crushed Temple.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Country Politician:I promise if elected, I will go to Washington as a servant of the people and not as a puppet! And furthermore, my fellow Americans, this practice of castor oil consumption must be defeated!

Movie Connections:

Featured in My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

An enlightened look at Shirley Temples Cinema beginnings

At first I thought the little darlings were cute but my heart sunk, feeling like some old pervert who had money had taken advantage of innocence and the poor. Then I found it to be of great value to me. We are a spoiled society in a time when we have so much and appreciate so little. These films were made during the great depression… very harsh times when people were starving, broken, lost everything and the films are a peek into what life was like. The comments say a great deal about that time in history, and although it seems distasteful at first, you still can't help but appreciate how talented Shirley Temple was at such an early age!

Why would anyone even allow someone to depict the little ones in such a way? Child porn, incest and other abuses were handled differently then and usually considered nobody's business as well. We didn't have the laws we presently have and I think we should be appreciative of the lessons that show us just how far we have come in both our technology and our laws of humanity in less than a century. We should also be grateful to those who pioneered the whole process, both the victims and the heroes. A picture speaks a thousand words and I see these little films as a valuable piece of our history.

The time that most of us know Shirley Temple best for was during World War II when she gave us all hope (Such as "The Little Princess"). Shirley Temple gave us what we needed most in a time when we had so many devastating losses. She was America's Little Sweetheart who later became an ambassador to the United States since she had spent her life knowing how to deal with dignitaries from foreign countries. We owe her respect and a thank you in a big way and these early films show us that her successes and contributions were not from easy beginnings or for free!