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One of only ten made, starring The Cabin Kids a musical quintet made up of five black brothers and sisters. They were ushered in to show business by their aunt and legal guardian and appeared in several motion pictures before vanishing from the public's consciousness, not much is known about them and even less is known about their life after their time in the spotlight. This short, directed by esteemed comedy producer Al Christie, also stars silent comic Toto The Clown in one of his last film appearances and one of his only talkies.
Sep 1936
Felix can't afford to get in to the theatre so he makes a hole in the wall to peep through. There are two wrestlers. A small Japanese mans overthrows an enormous opponent. Inspired, Felix ties a know in a lamppost and is chased by a policeman. He tries to karate a goat who head butts him. He lands in a Japanese garden where two Geishas are kneeling. Inside a hut another Geisha kneels.
Mar 1928
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Dec 1932
Hollywood Luck is a 1932 Comedy short.
Mar 1932
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
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
Feb 1937
A man gets hit on the head and decides to give his fortune to artists.
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
Mar 1934
Three young girls live together in a one room apartment just scraping by while dreaming of Hollywood stardom. When one refuses a small role because they the producers won't meet her price the newest of the trio whose fresh off the bus from Omaha takes it and finds success.
Jan 1931
Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price -- by dancing and juggling!
Feb 1936
A pseudonymous Roscoe Arbuckle directs this comedy short about a man who goes insane because of his wife's bridge addiction.
Feb 1932
Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?
Aug 1933
Stepin Fetchit in the Educational Pictures short "Slow Poke," doing the shtick that made him a millionaire in the 1930s.
Sep 1933
Crashing Hollywood is a 1931 Comedy short.
Two criminals hear about a woman who has won a prize in the lottery, and decide to kidnap her to force her to give them the money. Unfortunately, they don't know that the prize she won amounted to $50.
Jan 1935