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Walter MacIntosh and Abe Salisbury are filmmakers in the process of viewing their swashbuckling romance epic, 'The Loves of LaVorees', starring silent screen idol, Romaine Salisbury, hotly contested within Hollywood and part of an expensive silent film production, only for Bovine Productions to switch to sound production and reveal to them for the first time, Romaine's real all-talking, all-singing voice.
Apr 1931
A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies.
Oct 1934
Krakatoa is a 1933 American Pre-Code short documentary film produced by Joe Rock. The story describes how the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa on the island blew half of the large island into the air that produced a tsunami, and an air wave that was felt seven times around the globe. The eruption also emitted tons of dust that dimmed the sun all over the world for many months. It won the Academy Award in 1934 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).
Apr 1933
Elmer answers an ad for a handyman job and starts working for an older woman and her niece. He gets the impression that his employer wants to marry him, even as he finds himself falling in love with her niece.
Mar 1935
A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Feb 1932
A smallpox scare caused by a misunderstanding, antics ensue.
Apr 1926
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
Jan 1937
Buster, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
Mar 1937
Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
Mar 1932
When a dance instructor is tricked into facing a prize fighter in the boxing ring, his girlfriend devises a plan to turn the odds in his favor.
Dec 1932
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, which is proving to be a harder task than he anticipated.
Oct 1933
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
Feb 1937
In this short from Educational Pictures, teenaged Sonny is working hard for the upcoming boxing match against his rival, Harry. Much of the film consists of his preparing for the match as well as his little sister's antics. When the match finally arrives, Harry is beating the snot out of Sonny and the only hope for Sonny is if he cheats...which he does without realizing it!
Dec 1935
Bog Boy is no longer the baby of the family and is jealous of his newborn brother.
Sep 1926
Shirley acts as a rich "gold digger" trying to elect a cowboy politician to the office.
Jun 1933
Elmer attempts to elope with his fiancée, but they escape her parents by driving off in a car that's actually owned by a wanted gangster. When they hear on the radio that the police are looking for them, they dump the car and hide out near a farmhouse. But the farmer's radio also broadcasts the couple's description, so they run away and start hitchhiking, only to be picked up by two policemen. They manage to flee into a railroad yard and hop a train that turns out to be refrigerated. Finally they decide to turn themselves in -- just as they learn that the real crooks have been apprehended.
Aug 1935
Moran and Mack ends up house watching a potentially haunted house.
Dec 1933
Monte is running for mayor of Hollywood against a crooked gang member. When the mob kidnaps Monte, it's up to the Hollywood Actors Club to save him.
Scoutmaster Elmer Brown loses his heart to the pretty carhop who works in a drive-in diner. Complicating his romantic longings is her policeman fiancé. When he tries to eliminate Elmer by giving him traffic tickets for every conceivable violation, the girl takes pity on the martyred Elmer and they drive off together. She informs him that she is also fending off another suitor, Oscar; and to make matters worse, her father is backing the cop while her mother promotes Oscar. Eventually all three men wind up competing for her hand at a chaotic wedding ceremony that ends with Elmer winning his beloved.
Jan 1936
Niela is tired of her children's hour radio program and with the help of Lee they frame the station's top executive so that she will get a break on a big time program.
Jan 1938