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Benny Rubin is a Messenger Boy who gets into trouble with everyone.
Jun 1931
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.
Nov 1932
When a woman models for an artist they fall in love. Can the artist overcome the beauty's recent past as another man's mistress?
Jul 1931
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
Dec 1931
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Sep 1931
In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of the Royal Academy of Physical Education in Stockholm, Sweden, supervises the children's activities.
Nov 1956
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.
Oct 1931
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to help residents survive a nuclear attack. Through a network of volunteers, makeshift hospitals would be set up, auxiliary police officers would maintain order, and other elements of the civil defense program would be put in place.
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Apr 1932
A short film about Mardi Gras in New Orleans from the point of view of those who make Carnival happen.
Jan 1947
Made by RKO-Pathe, in Pathe color and three-dimension, in observance of the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase from France at a cost of $15,000,000 (more than the annual income of the U.S.A. at the time). After a short narrative showing U.S. Ambassador Robert Livingston (Val Winter) negotiating the purchase with Napoleon and Tallyrand, the rest of the film, guided by Livingston's spirit, visits the 1953 territory of the purchase and shows the growth of such former outposts as Minneapolis, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Most of the footage is given to New Orleans, Louisiana and its Vieux Carre, docks, business district and museums, ending with the preparation for that city's annual Mardi Gras.
Oct 1953
A showcase of bullfighting in Portugal, explaining how the country's version of the sport differs from those in Spain and Latin America and helps define the national character. After showing the training techniques for the bulls and horses, a bullfight is presented.
Oct 1956
Richard Fleischer provides a funny twist and amusing narrative commentary by Ward Wilson on two re-edited silent films in this RKO short film.
Oct 1945
This Screenliner short looks at the dress and customs of Nazaré, a fishing village on Portugal's Atlantic coast.
Jan 1957
In the third of Pathe's Gay Girls comedy series, Harry Myers is a married man who strings one of them along until his wife Isabel Withers, comes along. Later one of them gets a job as a co-respondent in a divorce suit, and Myers is the divorce-seeking husband.
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.
Jun 1932
A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
This short film looks at the history of gold, and how the less expensive gold filled process is used to bring glitter to the masses.
Oct 1955