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- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandSpanky and Alfalfa do a show based on the "Aladdin's Lamp" story with Darla in the cast, but Darla doesn't want to participate.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandMatthew 'Stymie' BeardScotty BeckettSpanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater's amateur night.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsOur GangRobert BlakeTommy BondAn abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. Our Gang puts the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go". All is not smooth sailing, however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
- DirectorGordon DouglasStarsDarla HoodEugene 'Porky' LeeGeorge 'Spanky' McFarlandThe gang are having a wrestling match so Alfalfa can impress Darla. The problem is finding someone he can beat and they settle on Waldo. But rival Butch takes his place as the Masked Marvel and Alfalfa needs some help in the ring to win.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJackie CooperAllen 'Farina' HoskinsWhile on a camping trip, the gang comes across poachers.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsMatthew 'Stymie' BeardDorothy DeBorbaBobby 'Wheezer' HutchinsThe gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsSherwood BaileyMatthew 'Stymie' BeardDorothy DeBorbaThe gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyJames W. HorneJilted by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget, bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and under the harsh discipline of the Commandant. On a long march to reinforce remote Fort Arid, the boys get lost in the sands, finally reaching the Fort only to find it besieged by the fearsome Riffs.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardTwo homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.
- DirectorJames W. HorneJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardySpencer BellIn order to secretly attend a stag party in their honor, the boys urge their wives to travel ahead alone on a jointly-planned Atlantic City vacation by invoking Oliver's fake migraine as an excuse to remain behind.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are working as paperhangers in the home of Professor Panzer, a mad scientist looking for a brain to use in his experiments. The professor wants to put a human brain into a gorilla but has trouble finding a brain small enough, which leads him to select Curly (for obvious reasons) as the perfect donor. The stooges manage to foil the madman with the help of the Gorilla who befriends Curly.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardCon men hire the Stooges to sell memberships to a phony duck hunting club.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThree bumbling window washers are mistaken for dentists and run amok at an affair in the home of a rich socialite.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are living with their mother who persuades them its time to leave home and seek their fortune. After a con man sells them a phony deed to a lost gold mine, the boys head west to find the treasure. After some mishaps with Curly's gold finding invention, they locate the mine and strike it rich. When two crooked miners try to take their gold they hole up in an abandoned hotel and, although they get bombarded by dynamite, triumph over the crooks.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardTo escape the police, the Stooges pose as plumbers contracted to fix a mansion's plumbing, which inevitably causes destructive chaos.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardTo save their debt-ridden diner, the Stooges enter a cow milking contest.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges run a pet hospital and get an important patient, Garcon, a rich ladies poodle. When dognappers posing as reporters steal the poodle, the boys are in a tough spot. First they try to fool their client by disguising a mutt as the poodle. When that doesn't work, they use the mutt as a bloodhound to track down the crooks. When they discover the bad guys hideout, Curly defeats them in a fight and they find Garcon, only to discover that "he" has had a litter of puppies.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe three stooges employed as icemen attempt to deliver ice to a mountaintop house and are forced to cater for a birthday dinner there.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardA 17th Century English judge orders three miscreants to defend the new British colonies in New England against its residential Native Americans.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges make a whole batch of homemade beer, but get tossed in jail when Curly sells some to a policeman. Their minor indiscretion turns into a forty year sentence when a barrel of beer Curly has hidden under his coat explodes while the boys are being photographed. In prison, the stooges get into more trouble with the warden and wind on the rockpile when they try to escape. Finally released as old men with long gray beards, the first thing Curly wants is a bottle of beer.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are greeting card salesmen who are mistakenly inducted into the army after escaping from the jealous husband of one of their customers. In bootcamp their sergeant turns out to be the same man, whom they constantly vex and bewilder. When the boys are sent to the front lines and the sergeant is captured they must rescue him, which they do after doping themselves with laughing gas. At the end they get shot off into the sunset on a cannon shell.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardSet in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Adrift on a raft, they come upon a German battleship and by various means, such as Moe disguising himself as Hitler, and Curly and Larry as Goering and Goebbels, manage to capture the enemy ship.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe stooges are janitors working in the offices of Doctors Hart-Burns and Belcher. Some crooks arrive seeking medical attention after their boss has been wounded in a shoot out with the cops. Mistaken for doctors, the boys are forced to operate on the wounded crook, but instead they accidentally dump him out the window into a passing police car. The rest of the gang chases them into a store room filled with dummies where the cops finally catch the bad guys.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are small-time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers, including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are tossed off the train.
- DirectorJack WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ruin a piano and generally make a mess of the party, but the hostess passes them off as vaudeville comedians and they are invited to join the guests on a fox hunt.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges escape from jail in order to save their father from gangsters and a beautiful gold-digger.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges find a crippled boy and his sister living in their dumpyard shack. To raise money to pay for the little boy's operation, they buy a phony treasure map from two con men. Thinking the treasure is buried beneath an old house, the boys start digging and wind up in a U.S. treasury vault where they are promptly arrested. The president (FDR) gives them amnesty and arranges for the boy's operation.
- DirectorJack CummingsStarsLarry FineMoe HowardCurly HowardTed Healy and the 3 Stooges are fired and evicted from a theatre because Ted annoys women working there. They then get jobs as waiters at a nightclub. Chaos leads to destruction of the business. At the end, Ted pursues another woman.
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsVictor AndréBleuette BernonA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
- DirectorBasil WrangellStarsDean StockwellConnie GilchristClancy CooperA policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.
- StarsRobert L. RipleyAlbert RousseauAugust WichmannRipley shows a legendary Japanese statesman, a strange fish with legs, the 'Rubaiyat' in a finger ring, how a deck of cards is torn up, and a giant typewriter in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsRobert L. RipleyLeo DonnellyIn this short film, Robert L. Ripley introduces narrator Leo Donnelly, who presents various "Believe It or Not" oddities from around the world as gathered by Ripley.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsRobert L. RipleyRobert Ripley draws and shows movies to train passengers. Highlights include an Indian guide who carried a piano on his back over Chilkoot Pass in Alaska, a Manchurian lady with very long eyelashes, a huge balancing boulder, a massive collection of horseshoes, a wooden flower garden, a merry-go-round lunch counter, chickens with featherless wings, and various curiosities collected from his North Africa tour, including a trip to the Great Pyramid. Also included is rare footage of a sand spider attacking a lizard.
- StarsRobert L. RipleySigmund ShusterTom GreenBilly falls asleep and dreams that Robert L. Ripley takes him on a tour of Believe-It-or-Not land to see many oddities.
- DirectorScott SidneyStarsNeal BurnsVera SteadmanLincoln PlumerNeal intends to marry the star of a musical show despite his father's protests. Father decides to win the girl from son, just to show son how fickle are women. But instead, he lets himself in for a heart-breaking romance, for he finds the girl good enough for father to marry, if not for son. Nevertheless, the son's agility is too much for the older man. Since father has bought the show in which the girl appears, son threatens to take his wife out of the cast and lose father a fat sum of money unless he behaves. So father does.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsRobert L. RipleyLeo DonnellyBen HodgeIn this entry to the documentary short series, a $5000 contest is revealed for fans. Robert Ripley presents to a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips: a 17-year-old grandmother in Africa, a French woman who left her fortune to buy clothing for snowmen she believed to be dressed immodestly, one of the largest books in the world (a huge Bible), a giant Boston tea pot steaming since 1873, two 119-year-olds in Missouri meeting for the first time before the cameras, truffle-hunting pigs in France, and Fritz the German Shepherd dog who walks on the high wire.
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsRobert BenchleyKing BaggotJack BaxleyA man and his wife have a less-than-enjoyable time at the movies.
- DirectorJean NegulescoStarsCraig StevensElisabeth RisdonKnox ManningThis entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsRobert L. RipleyLeo DonnellyRobert L. RatteThe second entry of the second series in which Robert Ripley does not present drawings and film clips personally: he just introduces Leo Donnelly the narrator at the beginning. This omnibus of film clips include a Savannah golf course made from Civil War trenches, wooden Indians used with cigar stores, a Sioux artist from South Dakota who paints upside down, the smallest residence house, a Bronx statue with mysterious origins, the Ocean Grove community in New Jersey that closes down on Sundays due to blue laws, a futuristic 18-story motorized parking garage, a violin made from matchsticks, a mansion on an Atlantic City pier, a paralyzed dog fitted with wheels, and a cemetery for dogs.
- StarsRobert L. RipleyLeo DonnellyThis entry of the Robert Ripley series does not feature Robert (who is away gathering material on his tours). Leo Donnelly narrates various odds and ends like a church service held on the Saint Lawrence River in boats, one of the largest sculptures in the world, sand art in bottles, and a man who pulls cars with his hair. This episode also has a greater amount of "critter" material: chickens learn to be aquatic thanks to a training duck, another hen adopts puppies as her own, the Australian platypus is discussed (not as famous then as today), and a couple of horse topics (a motorized blacksmith, a blacksmith shop adjacent to the Chrysler Building, and a horse with double-hoof).
- DirectorPaul VogelStarsPete SmithThis MGM short, part of the A Pete Smith Specialty series, focuses on the young men who have signed up to serve their country. Speed, teamwork and accuracy are the hallmark of all army units and this is demonstrated by different army squads - a rifle squad, a machine gun squad, a mortar squad, anti-tank gunners and shore batteries - all of which work with the fluidity of athletes and athletic teams.
- DirectorRobert ClampettArthur DavisFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancDave BarrySara BernerThe auditorium of a movie theater is crowded with animals in human clothes, eagerly waiting for the film to start. The show opens with a newsreel called Warmer News. It presents the implementation of war to peace time use. With the help of radar the father of a family can detect the approach of his mother-in-law, and hide the entire house before she arrives. During the newsreel a wolf in the auditorium falls asleep, but when the feature starts, he quickly awakens. The feature presents the two stars Bogey Gocart and Laurie Bee Cool in "To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have-To Have". When Laurie in the film asks "Anybody have a light?", the wolf in the audience gets randy. And when she continues: "You only have to whistle", the wolf starts whistling loudly. Full of excitement he jumps on to the narrow stage in front of the movie. Bogey Gocart sees the wolf and shoots him through the screen.
- DirectorLeRoy PrinzStarsBob WillsJoy BarlowBrooks BenedictThis short film provides a brief introduction to Bob Wills and the rise in popularity of his western swing music. Wills and His Texas Playboys perform a handful of songs in various set pieces, including their big hit "San Antonio Rose."
- StarsJames A. FitzPatrickThis travelogue starts in the Valley of the Kings at the tomb of King Tutankhamun, then it's on to the Valley of the Nile with the Colossi of Memnon, Luxor, Karmak, and the ancient city of Thebes. It concludes with a look at modern life along the great river where 13 million people live bordered by desert. The film's narrated thesis is that little has changed in these regions in more than 3000 years, from ancient times to present-day. Irrigation is performed using wheels and oxen as well as with the shaduf; also, women get water at a desert well. As the sun sets, a romantic song adds to the mood.
- StarsJames A. FitzPatrickThis entry in James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series looks at Budapest, the capital of Hungary, before World War II.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsShemp HowardDaphne PollardElmer BrownShemp Butler & Emmy Cook (Shemp Howard & Daphne Pollard) get hired as a butler and cook.
- DirectorDave FleischerGrim NatwickStarsMargie HinesBilly MurrayWilliam PennellBimbo the dog is initiated into a secret society in a sadistic 'fun house'; then Betty Boop (with dog's ears) takes a hand.
- DirectorFred WallerStarsCab CallowayCab Calloway and His Cotton Club OrchestraLena HorneCab Calloway performs two numbers at the Cotton Club, then takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsDuke EllingtonDuke Ellington OrchestraFredi WashingtonDuke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.
- DirectorFred WallerStarsDuke EllingtonIvie AndersonFlorence HillDuke Ellington and his orchestra play two jazz compositions plus 'Stormy Weather' (sung by Ivy Anderson).
- DirectorDave FleischerThomas JohnsonStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelKoko and Bimbo visit Betty Boop's penny arcade, Bimbo to flirt with Betty; but his turn at the shooting gallery becomes a hunting trip.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMichael JacksonAnjelica HustonDick ShawnCaptain EO and his space crew are on a mission to save the world from the evil queen by giving her a song and dance.
- DirectorLee De ForestStarsEddie CantorThis experimental talking short shows Cantor in his vaudeville act.
- DirectorGus MeinsStarsThelma ToddPatsy KellyJohnny ArthurThelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.
- DirectorAlice GuyStarsFraunie FraunholzMarian SwayneA married couple decide to "live separately together."
- DirectorRay CozineStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenChester CluteGeorge registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
- DirectorMort BlumenstockStarsJack BennyEstelle BrodyTammany YoungJack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJack BennyJune O'DeaWalter WilsonIn an erudite driver's taxi, Jack Benny shares a ride with a very pretty and delightfully flirtatious young lady.
- DirectorBobby ConnollyStars11th Naval District United States Coast Guard BandRudy ValleeSinger Rudy Vallee, a Coast Guard Reserve officer leads the Coast Guard Band in a salute to all the uniformed services.
- DirectorVan Campen HeilnerStarsHarry WismerAn RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsMickey RooneyLewis StoneRand BrooksJudge Hardy teaches his son Andy a lesson about charity while used car shopping.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsKathleen FreemanHoward NegleyRuth LeeIn this entry in the Passing Parade series, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Annie Swenson, who worked as a cook/housekeeper in the Nesbitt home when he was growing up. Annie was one of thousands of Scandinavian immigrant girls who came to America in the early years of the 20th century in search of a better life.
- StarsJohn NesbittThe saga of the Normandie is recounted from her life as a luxury liner, the horrific fire that nearly destroyed her, and her resuscitation to join in the war effort
- DirectorLeslie PearceStarsBing CrosbyMarjorie KaneFranklin PangbornBing Crosby as himself in a comedy of romance and mistaken identity.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsJohn NesbittShepperd StrudwickBarbara BedfordThis Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medical community believed that the condition was caused by a virus, Goldberger proved that a healthy diet was the cure.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsAddison RichardsWolfgang ZilzerHugh BeaumontThis short film portrays the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to capture a ring of smugglers who prey on desperate immigrants waiting entry by convincing them they have influence with the Immigration Service if they just pay a fee.
- DirectorDave FleischerSeymour KneitelStarsThe Royal SamoansBilly MurraySatini PualoaOn a south sea isle, Bimbo meets Betty in the guise of a hula dancer.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsThe Vitaphone KiddiesJudy GarlandMary Jane GummA Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of 'make believe' where they sing and tap dance. Marjorie Kane sings an introductory song.
- StarsGeorge MurphyLauren BacallCharles BoyerThis MGM short introduces some of the movies the studio will be releasing in 1955. Presented by George Murphy they include Jupiter's Darling (1955) with Esther Williams, Bedevilled (1955) with Anne Baxter and Steve Forrest, The Glass Slipper (1955) with Leslie Caron, Interrupted Melody (1955), Hit the Deck (1955), The King's Thief (1955), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), Moonfleet (1955), The Prodigal (1955) and It's Always Fair Weather (1955).
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsStanley RidgesJohn EldredgeLouis Jean HeydtShows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.
- StarsJames A. FitzPatrickA Technicolor travelogue celebrating San Francisco - past and present
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsJohn NesbittOscar ApfelWilliam BaileyStory of Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsLee DixonVirginia GreyPeggy RyanThe scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936. The show had its last performance and the cast doesn't have much hope for their careers in Hollywood or New York. A chorus member suggests that Rose (played by himself) produce a show of his greatest numbers. Without missing a beat, Rose tells the cast to report for rehearsal the next morning. The constantly bickering dance team of Mason & Dixon (Virginia Grey and Lee Dixon) does not look forward to working together so soon. Grey explodes when she learns that Dixon has a new, younger partner. She later learns that the new partner is the adorable Peggy Ryan, a mere fourteen-year-old hoofer. They become a brilliant trio in the show. Fiction aside, the short serves to preserve the colossal aspects of the John Murray Anderson-directed show, with the enormous chorus and some of its original stars, such as the Stuart Morgan Dancers and Harriet Hoctor. At the time the largest theatre-café in the world (they seated 4,200), the revolving stage was 130 feet in diameter and took one minute and forty-five seconds to turn one revolution. Between the 4,264,000 pound revolving stage and the audience was a lagoon that measured 131 feet wide by 175 feet long. The costumes were created by Raoul Pene Du Bois, the sets by Albert Johnson, lighting by Carlton Winkler, and dances directed by Robert Alton. Nearly all the principal technicians, including composer Dana Suesse, would become Rose's staff for his Casa Manana nightclub, which he opened in Manhattan's Paramount Hotel a few years later. In this short, authentic footage was taken in Fort Worth, recording rehearsal and performance of the show's largest production number, "Oriental Yogi" and the show's finale, "It Can't Happen Here" (both by composer Dana Suesse with lyrics by Billy Rose and Stanley Joseloff). In the thrilling finale, sixteen elevators suddenly rose out of the floor, bearing ten drummers and six trumpeters. In the center of the stage, "Miss Liberty," wearing the largest gown ever created, marches up a flight of chromium stairs. In the original program she is listed as Mary Dowell. Once at the top, an elevator propels her to an even higher pinnacle. Carried by twenty-eight men, the gown's train consisted of 1,200 yards of spangled satin. The film short cleverly inter-cuts close-up footage of its contract players with long shots of the original Texas production. While the enormous cast performs its finale, "It Can't Happen Here," the MGM Orchestra is cleverly over-dubbed, playing an instrumental version of "Swingin' The Jinx Away" (Cole Porter) from the 1936 Eleanor Powell feature, "Born To Dance." Missing from the film are original Fort Worth cast members Everett Marshall and The California Varsity Eight.
- DirectorDouglas SinclairStarsPeter RobertsAt carnival time in Quebec, Canada, it's also time for racing with sled dogs, horse-drawn sleighs, hockey competition, the carving of ice statues, obstacle races by youngsters, fireworks, and also the selection of a queen for the carnival.
- StarsJohn Teal Jr.Dave FloydJohn KelsawThis RKO-Pathe short film follows an expedition to study the musk ox in Northern Canada and to safely capture young calves for further study. In the past, the usual way to capture young musk ox was to surround a herd and simply kill all of the full-grown animals. On this expedition, however, they are forbidden to hurt any animals, so they must find a way to trap them, something no one thought could be done. Having captured three calves, they travel to a farm near Burlington, Vermont where the program of domestication begins.
- StarsEarl RobinsonFrank WhitbeckShort documentary pitching sales of U.S. Defense Bonds and Savings Stamps.
- DirectorBryan FoyStarsRose MarieRose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers in the Vitaphone sound stage decorated as an elegant drawing room. "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho," "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You," and "Don't Be Like That." She sings the first in a polka-dot sailor suit and the other two numbers in a frilly white dress. She's animated throughout, acting as well as singing. She scats in both "Heigh Ho" and "Don't Be Like That." At the end, she curtsies twice.
- DirectorJacob LeventhalJohn NorlingStarsPete SmithAfter the audience is instructed how to use the 3-D glasses they received, demonstrations of three-dimensional films are presented. Various objects move towards the camera, including a ladder being shoved out a window, the slide on a trombone, a woman on a swing, and a thrown baseball.
- DirectorHarold AutenStarsPaul Gerard SmithIn a husband deferring to his wife's wishes, a couple takes a driving trip to Mexico as a vacation. Their trek takes them across the wide open desert. They report on the rather odd things they see along the way, including: an abandoned junk of a car which obviously could not make the desert crossing; a community populated solely by Russians speaking only Russian and adhering to their Russian customs mixed with local flavor, such as the young boys embarking on the sport of cactus apple fishing; what is supposed to be a battle to the death between two turtles by flipping the opponent onto its back, that death without human intervention saving the otherwise "doomed" loser; and close encounters with two other species of wildlife, namely a lizard and a probably venomous snake. They encounter that snake again later at a nearby farm, it which gets into battles with with a cat, then with a German Shepard.
- DirectorVan Campen HeilnerStarsHarry WismerPervis HebertRaquel Romero HeilnerIn this Sportscope entry, naturalist Van Campen Heilner and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose. They first use a motorboat and see the local Cajuns trapping muskrats for fur. They later switch to a marsh buggy. After their guide picks out what he believes is a good spot, the three of them set up a blind and set out decoys to lure the geese.
- StarsThe MGM Symphony OrchestraJohnny GreenJohnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the title work.
- DirectorBud PollardStarsStepin FetchitFrancine EverettLou SwarzA wealthy young society man is dating a beautiful young woman who he believes is also in his "class" because of her beautiful, classically trained singing voice.
- DirectorJames A. FitzPatrickStarsJames A. FitzPatrickA visit to Athens, Greece and the island of Rhodes.
- DirectorLarry O'ReillyStarsAndré BaruchVal PetersonMarguerite OsmondThis RKO-Pathe short film promotes the need for cooperation and neighborliness in the event of a nuclear disaster and associated civil defense procedures. After preaching the power of modern (for 1956) atomic weapons, civil defense is what saves everyday citizens. The scene shifts to Reading, PA where 8,000 volunteers contribute to the civil defense effort. They may take first aid classes or firearms training for auxiliary police. The national alert system and local communications systems are all in place. All that is needed, the film suggests, is for everyone to be alert.
- DirectorRoy MackStarsAdelaide HallThe Nicholas BrothersThe 3 WhippetsBlack vaudeville acts are featured in this Vitaphone Pepper Pot short. In addition to those listed in the credits, acts include The 3 Whippets, a group of acrobats; and The Five Racketeers, a band that initially backs up Eunice Wilson and then sings "Tiger Rag".
- DirectorBen StassenStarsJohn BoyleBouli LannersPierre LebecqueAliens arrive on Earth and explore an amusement park thinking it it is a modern city.
- DirectorChris WedgeStarsBosmuend PikeAn elderly widowed rabbit grieving her husband's death is encountered by a moth who invites her into the afterlife.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIzzy SparberMyron WaldmanStarsJackson BeckCecil RoyLulu plans her revenge against a distressed golfer who refuses to give her a lollipop after he promised her one for caddieing for him.
- DirectorCal DaltonBen HardawayStarsMel BlancDanny WebbSome canine prisoners attempt to make a break from prison.
- DirectorIzzy SparberJames TyerStarsJackson BeckCarl MeyerArnold StangHerman the mouse attempts to break up the smarmy friendship between the cat and dog of the house in order to raid the icebox.
- DirectorWill FinnJohn SanfordStarsJudi DenchRoseanne BarrJoe FlahertyDisney's Home on the Range (2004) spin-off short where Mrs. Caloway attempts to tell the tale of Three Little Pigs to the four piglets, but Maggie, Buck, and others keep interrupting her and adding story elements they want to hear.
- DirectorGary D. RhodesStarsMichael CamfieldBob AndersonAnita HillA documentary that covers the 1997 Oklahoma confiscation of the film "The Tin Drum" due to a judicial ruling of child pornography, and the six years of legal wranglings that ensued.
- Four nude young women are interrupted by an intruder.
- DirectorArthur H. WolfStarsDan PalmquistAt Thanksgiving, the Johnson family is awaiting the dinner hour, but Mom and Dad have some bad news--because of increased expenses that month, there's no money to buy a turkey. However, instead of feeling bad that they don't have a turkey for Thanksgiving, the family begins to think about all the things they do have to be thankful for.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsEthel WatersSouthernaires QuartetHamtree HarringtonA family play on the nerves of a hard working housewife, but they soon get busy when a rich relative is due to arrive.
- DirectorHans BurgerStarsLena HorneAlbert AmmonsPete JohnsonAfter hours at a nightclub, the hired help have a jam session, which proves to be just what a couple of belated customers wanted to hear.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisNoah YoungBlase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the 'wild west ' by his father.
- DirectorSam WeissStarsClaire BloomJames Earl JonesMichael York