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1. The Live Ghost (1934)
Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy
A gruff sea captain, who absolutely detests the word "ghost," is having trouble manning his ship because of the rumor it's...well...haunted. He inveigles Stanley and Oliver into helping him... See full summary »
Director: Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Walter Long
Votes: 1,570
2. Good Morning, Eve! (1934)
Approved | 19 min | Musical, Comedy, Short
In this short musical comedy, Adam and Eve go on an adventure through time that leads them from the Garden of Eden, to the Roman Empire, King Arthur's court, and a beach resort in modern-day Florida.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Leon Errol, June MacCloy, Vernon Dent, Maxine Doyle
Votes: 283
3. Tal Henry and His North Carolinians (1929)
9 min | Short, Music
The title orchestra play three popular tunes of the day.
Star: Tal Henry and His North Carolinians
Votes: 55
4. Not Interested (2010 Video)
TV-MA | 9 min | Short, Comedy
A spaced out knife salesman makes the house call of a lifetime.
Director: D.W. Young | Stars: Leslie Hendrix, Khan Baykal, Zachary Fletcher
Votes: 19
5. The Burying Beetle (2010 Video)
TV-G | 27 min | Short, Drama, Family
A boy trying to cope with his terminally ill father's impending death discovers religion and becomes convinced that his father must repent and get baptized to save his soul before he dies. ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Rock | Stars: John Michael Higgins, Jacob Bertrand, Margaret Welsh, Freddy Rodríguez
Votes: 19
6. Patient (2009)
TV-MA | 15 min | Short, Action, Crime
A man and a woman meet at a coffee shop for the first time. As if on an awkward date, they exchange timid pleasantries, however as their conversation unfolds the horrifying truth behind their meeting is revealed.
Director: Daniel Clements | Stars: Siobhan Murphy, Jenny Raven, Randy Thomas, Shawn Thomsen
Votes: 17
7. Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts (1915)
22 min | Comedy, Short
Mickael GoUpSkey, a foreign agent, is aboard a train en route to purchase planes for his country's military. A.C. Walrus, an agent for a rival country, is also aboard that same train and is... See full summary »
Director: Walter Wright | Stars: Chester Conklin, Claire Anderson, Nick Cogley, Dave Anderson
Votes: 121
8. Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
Not Rated | 34 min | Comedy, Short
The beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Al St. John, Frank Hayes
Votes: 481
9. Cinema Circus (1937)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Various entertainment celebrities take part in a circus performance, along with authentic acrobats and other performers of the big top.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Lee Tracy, California Collegians, Marcus Show Girls, The Fanchonettes
Votes: 52
10. Show Kids (1935)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Musical
It's the Depression, and the vaudeville Palace Theater is unable to stay afloat. The proprietor, Mr. Jenkins, begrudgingly lets his 12-year-old son stage a kiddie show that draws in the crowds.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Tad Alexander, Arthur Aylesworth, Florence Fair, The Meglin Kiddies
Votes: 113
11. Bob's Busy Day (1942)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Bob, his girlfriend and her mother are driving through South America. Bob wants to get married at the next town, Los Poach-os Egg-os, where they are currently holding a festival called ... See full summary »
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Bob Hope, Leah Ray, Frances Halliday, Jules Epailly
Votes: 22
12. Carmen, Jr. (1923)
11 min | Comedy, Short
A spoof of Bizet's Carmen. Somewhere in Spain, a young girl gets the better of the neighborhood boys, then, dressed as a fashionable senorita, visits a club where a boy is demonstrating a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Baby Peggy, Lillian Hackett, Inez McDonnell, Tommy Wonder
Votes: 79
13. Such Is Life (1924)
17 min | Comedy, Short
A street urchin is trying to survive on her own, getting into mischief along the way.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Baby Peggy, Joe Bonner, Tommy Wonder, Jack Henderson
Votes: 80
14. Peg o' the Mounted (1924)
Passed | 22 min | Comedy, Short
A child plays in the woods next to an isolated cabin. An exhausted Mountie faints by the cabin, and the child helps him inside to the bed. She gives him a spoonful of liniment and rubs ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Baby Peggy, Bert Sterling, Jack Earle, Tiny Tim the Pony
Votes: 113
15. Baby Rose Marie the Child Wonder (1929)
8 min | Short, Musical
Rose 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 "... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Foy | Star: Rose Marie
Votes: 220
16. How to Raise a Baby (1938)
Passed | 10 min | Comedy, Short
A humorous look at the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Benchley, Margaret Bert, Ricardo Lord Cezon, Paul Clark
Votes: 165
17. Watch the Birdie (1935)
18 min | Comedy, Short
A practical joker takes a cruise with his fiancée and her family.
Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Bob Hope, Nell O'Day, Arline Dinitz, George Watts
Votes: 163
18. Jumpers (1997)
TV-MA | 18 min | Action, Comedy, Short
It's Christmas, and in a Belfast toyshop, three despairing people are forced to contemplate suicide on a dangerous window ledge; a recently fired dad who has only enough money to buy his ... See full summary »
Director: Konrad Jay | Stars: Peter Hanly, James Nesbitt, George Shane, Tim Loane
Votes: 30
19. Santa's Little Helper (1999)
11 min | Romance, Short
Desperate love seeking Cindy's day seems ruined when her blind date turns out to be a lunatic dressed as one of Santa's little helpers.
Director: Jason Grant Smith | Stars: Anita Barone, David Kelsey, Taylor Nichols, Tom Schanley
Votes: 22
20. The House I Live In (1945)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama, Music
Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Freddie Chapman, Vincent Graeff, Teddy Infuhr
Votes: 720
21. Eyes of the Navy (1940)
Approved | 20 min | Documentary, Short
Produced in cooperation with the United States Navy, the film follows naval aviators through their basic training in Pensacola, Florida and advanced training at San Diego, California.
Stars: James Conaty, Warren McCollum, Charles Middleton, Russell Wade
Votes: 223
22. Story of a Dog (1945)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
We watch the life of a Coast Guard dog, from the dog's point of view, from induction to graduation and then into a jungle to hunt for an enemy sniper. To pass muster, dogs must be of a ... See full summary »
Star: Knox Manning
Votes: 144
23. The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tanker training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical army trainee from the Bronx.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: George Tobias, Richard Travis, Gig Young, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 287
24. Now You See It (1947)
Passed | 10 min | Documentary, Short
This Pete Smith Specialty demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny wristwatch, the surface of a cat's tongue, and several insects.
Director: Richard L. Cassell | Star: Pete Smith
Votes: 124
25. So You Want to Be on the Radio (1948)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Phyllis Coates, George Ford, Fred Kelsey
Votes: 230
26. Stairway to Light (1945)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Drama, History
The story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Phillipe Pinel, whose initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: John Nesbitt, Harry Cording, Lotte Palfi Andor, Dewey Robinson
Votes: 269
27. Hitler Lives (1945)
Approved | 17 min | Documentary, Short
This short propaganda film, produced at the end of World War II, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas of racial hatred, violence and conquest live on in the German people, and in like-minded people in the United States.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Knox Manning, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 397
28. The Week End Mystery (1931)
17 min | Short, Mystery
During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o'clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card table to take his medicine, promising to ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hurley | Stars: Donald Meek, John Hamilton, Jane Winton, Walter Petrie
Votes: 44
29. Passing Parade (1938)
10 min | Short, Drama
Three specific and separate stories of life's passing parade are presented. In "Unclaimed Millions", millions of dollars sit in banks unclaimed, often because those accounts are forgotten. ... See full summary »
Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: John Nesbitt, Margaret Bert, William Lally
Votes: 100
30. MGM's March on in 1934-35 with Metro Goldwyn Mayer: Convention of the Century (1934)
9 min | Short, Documentary
In 1934, MGM held a convention in Chicago, inviting its company distributors from all over the United States to preview the films scheduled for the 1934-1935 exhibition season. After a ... See full summary »
Stars: Felix E. Feist, Norman Pyle, William Bishop, E.B. Coleman
Votes: 68
31. Stop Look and Listen (1967)
10 min | Short, Comedy
A man wearing suit, tie, black-framed glasses, and a hat leaves his house in LA's San Fernando Valley and heads off in his car. Except his car is him, seated on the ground - he moves via ... See full summary »
Directors: Len Janson, Chuck Menville | Stars: Len Janson, Chuck Menville, Don Alleyn, Howard Deitrich
Votes: 382
32. Black Cats and Broomsticks (1955)
Approved | 8 min | Documentary, Short
This short film examines the role in mid-20th century America of superstitions, personal rituals, taboos, talismans, and the black arts.
Director: Larry O'Reilly | Star: Peter Roberts
Votes: 295
33. The Devil's Cabaret (1930)
Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
At "Satan & Co., Inc.", the Devil is upset because too many people are going up to Heaven rather than down to Hades. He gives his assistant, Mr. Burns the task of getting more people to his... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Edward Buzzell, Mary Carlisle, Dorothy Coonan Wellman, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 431
34. Who's Superstitious? (1943)
Approved | 11 min | Short
This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking champagne bottles to christen ships, plus the role of superstitions in the Flying Dutchman tale.
Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: John Nesbitt, Ernie Alexander, Barbara Bedford, Margaret Bert
Votes: 113
35. Wild People (1933)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
The Globe Broadcasting Company does a radio broadcast from Dutch New Guinea, with the aborigines as performers.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Harry Jans, Harold Whalen, Eleanor Thatcher, Joyzelle Joyner
Votes: 106
36. So You Think You're Allergic (1945)
Passed | 11 min | Comedy, Short
Average Joes have struggled throughout the centuries to deal with allergies like hay fever, and Joe McDoakes is no exception.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Knox Manning, Barbara Billingsley, James Gonzalez
Votes: 124
37. Little White Lie (1945)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama
It's February; Elizabeth is keeping a diary. She and her husband Paul are adopting Tommy, a child of one, and she asks Amber, Tommy's precocious older sister - who's five or six - to come ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Burnford | Stars: Sharon McManus, Marta Linden, Donald Curtis, Naomi Childers
Votes: 57
38. Luncheon at Twelve (1933)
21 min | Comedy, Short
Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Charley Chase, Betty Mack, Gale Henry, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 50
39. A Lady Fights Back (1944)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
The 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
Star: John Nesbitt
Votes: 133
40. Toyland Casino (1938)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A score of amateur children sing and dance in costume in a multi-act musical revue.
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Albert Adams, Kingsley Colton, Bernard Daly, Barbara Dennison
Votes: 65
41. The Camera Caught It (1954)
Approved | 9 min | Short
A man looks at stacks of canisters of film on shelves. He pulls out a few to show real-life events caught on camera. He pulls out spools of film that include clips of the effects of heavy ... See full summary »
Stars: Pete Smith, Jeff York
Votes: 57
42. Hollywood - The Second Step (1936)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama
This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work ... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Jane Barnes, Maureen O'Sullivan, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 76
43. Gadgets Galore (1955)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, History
Assembled from dozens of film clips, with voice-over narration, this short film is a humorous "little history of a very big event, the coming of the automobile." It highlights the first few decades of autos and their impact in the U.S.
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Dwight Weist, Ward Wilson, Barney Oldfield, Charles Emmett Mack
Votes: 142
44. The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
Approved | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Frank Austin, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 2,046
45. The Naggers at Breakfast (1930)
Passed | 10 min | Short, Comedy
As a husband and wife eat breakfast, they argue about anything and everything.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Jack Norworth, Dorothy Adelphi
Votes: 83
46. The Operation (1930)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
One evening, a lovely young woman stops to see what's wrong with a news boy who's stretched out on a park bench. A dapper gentleman stops as well. The boy, aged 11, is Charlie McCarthy, and... See full summary »
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Christina Graver, Charlie McCarthy
Votes: 62
47. Souvenirs of Death (1948)
Passed | 10 min | Short, Drama
The cautionary story of a WWII war souvenir pistol, and how it made its way from a battlefield in France to deadly uses in an American home and the underworld.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Nesbitt, Morris Ankrum, Barbara Billingsley, Don Castle
Votes: 122
48. Beau Hunks (1931)
Passed | 37 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Jilted 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 ... See full summary »
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne, Charles Middleton
Votes: 1,950
49. Trifles of Importance (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Short
This short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number 7 affects a student accused of theft charges. The second segment shows that a person's... See full summary »
Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: John Nesbitt, Erville Alderson, Clark Gable, Sam Harris
Votes: 54
50. The Great Library Misery (1938)
Approved | 12 min | Short, Comedy
A man desiring to join the Grouch Club describes the terrible experience of trying to check out a book from a public library.
Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Jack Lescoulie, Arthur Q. Bryan, Nancy Evans, Detmar Poppen
Votes: 236
51. The Sinking of the 'Lusitania' (1918)
TV-PG | 12 min | Animation, Short, War
An animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.
Director: Winsor McCay | Star: Winsor McCay
Votes: 1,271
52. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Director: Winsor McCay | Stars: Winsor McCay, George McManus, Roy L. McCardell, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
Votes: 3,654
53. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville (1921)
12 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
After eating a cheese cake, a hobo falls asleep and dreams of a vaudeville show performed by bugs.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 380
54. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921)
11 min | Animation, Short
After eating rarebit, a woman has a strange dream in which her husband converts their home into a flying machine to escape having to pay the exorbitant interest on the mortgage. It takes them around the world and to the moon.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 421
55. Gertie on Tour (1921)
Not Rated | 2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Fragment from an unreleased film that was presumably produced between 1918 and 1921. In it, Gertie the dinosaur encounters the modern era. She has an encounter with a cable car and tells her dinosaur friends about it.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 362
56. Flip's Circus (1921)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short
Circus owner Flip entertains with balancing tricks and then tames an exotic beast.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 360
57. The Centaurs (1921)
Not Rated | 3 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A female centaur (a creature half-human and half-horse) enters a clearing in the woods, and picks some flowers. She is soon met by a male centaur, and the two then romance each other. They then seek parental consent for their union.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 475
58. The Flying House (2011)
Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short
Winsor McCay's last animated film, the 1921 classic "The Flying House - Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" follows a woman's dream about escaping foreclosure, taking to the skies with her husband - using their own house as a vehicle.
Director: Winsor McCay | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Matthew Modine, John Holderried
Votes: 49
59. Harnessed Rhythm (1936)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
This Sports Parade series entry follows the life of Dixie Dan, a harness race horse, from birth through age three.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Pete Smith, Dixie Dan
Votes: 88
60. Night Intruder (1938)
14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A middle-aged woman with friends and a sleeping mother upstairs uses her head to protect everyone when she finds out that there is a burglar in her house.
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Floyd Gibbons, Helen Carew, Edith Ketchum, Jean Whittaker
Votes: 80
61. The Hollywood You Never See (1934)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The making of Cleopatra (1934), showing pre-production, DeMille directing a scene, and the addition of music to the soundtrack.
Director: Herbert Moulton | Stars: Cecil B. DeMille, Ralph Jester, Anne Bauchens, Emily Barrye
Votes: 47
62. Star in the Night (1945)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Drama, Family
Three cowboys riding across the desert with gifts for no particular recipient see a distant bright light, and find it comes from the Star Auto Court sign where the owners and guests work together to help a young expectant couple.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman
Votes: 1,218
63. Grandad of Races (1950)
Not Rated | 9 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The annual horse race held in the Piazza del Campo in Siena is highlighted in all its color, pomp, and pageantry.
Director: André de la Varre | Star: Art Gilmore
Votes: 167
64. Lambchops (1929)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
After briefly struggling to find the audience behind the camera, George and Gracie bring their vaudeville act to the big screen. Throughout their exchange, Gracie's goal is to convince George that she's smart, not dizzy.
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen
Votes: 523
65. Vaudeville (1935)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Music
A vaudeville revue is presented. Ray and Sunshine perform a high spirited acrobatic routine, demonstrating both their strength and flexibility. Chaz Chase then performs a comic routine, ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Al Trahan, Ray and Sunshine, Chaz Chase, The Holman Sisters
Votes: 49
66. Hail Columbia (1934)
10 min | Documentary, Short, History
This short, chapter 3 in the "See America First" series, covers the years 1807-1819. It is the age of territorial expansion. The Louisiana Purchase from France means that America now ... See full summary »
Star: John B. Kennedy
Votes: 41
67. His Pastimes (1926)
8 min | Short, Music
Roy Smeck, "The Wizard of the String," plays guitar, ukulele, harmonica, and banjo to demonstrate the new Vitaphone sound-on-disc system.
Star: Roy Smeck
Votes: 59
68. Behind the Lines (1926)
8 min | Short, Music
Elsie Janis entertains the troops from the back of a truck. She calls a French soldier up to sing with her, then dances to an American song while everyone sings, and finally shares the stage with an English soldier.
Stars: Elsie Janis, William Kernell
Votes: 75
69. Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School (1942)
Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Borrah Minnevitch and His Rascals play popular songs on their harmonicas.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Borrah Minevitch, Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals, Leo Diamond
Votes: 90
70. Swing Cat's Jamboree (1938)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Music
"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quintet play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Louis Prima, Shirley Lloyd, Ted Gary, Mitzi Dahl
Votes: 160
71. Goofy Movies Number Eight (1934)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
A comedic short using old silent film footage with added humorous commentary by Pete Smith.
Star: Pete Smith
Votes: 65
72. Don't Talk (1942)
Approved | 22 min | Drama, Short
This MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Donald Douglas, Gloria Holden, Barry Nelson, Harry Worth
Votes: 291
73. Electrical Power (1938)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
A promo short looks at how electricity generated at Boulder (Hoover) Dam is sent to Hollywood to make films. A brief tour of the M-G-M power plants is followed by behind-the-scenes footage and previews of several upcoming releases.
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Jo Ann Sayers, Ray Bolger, Judy Garland, Frank Whitbeck
Votes: 88
74. Alibi Mark (1937)
Approved | 13 min | Short, Drama, Crime
When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Floyd Gibbons, Dennis Moore, Cliff Storey, Fred Whitehouse
Votes: 90
75. Those Good Old Days (1941)
Approved | 10 min | Musical, Short
Young Gloria's father and mother go out for the evening to see a television broadcast. (Yes, there was television in 1941!) Gloria's grandfather entertains her with stories about his days ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: William T. Orr, Jan Clayton, Janet Chapman, Lucia Carroll
Votes: 101
76. Shoe Shine Boy (1943)
Approved | 15 min | Drama, Musical, Short
A Young shoeshine boy must earn $6 by the end of the day so he can buy a second-hand bugle, because the next day he is going into the U.S. Army.
Director: Walter Hart | Stars: Mel Bryant, Sam Levene, Walter Catlett, William Bailey
Votes: 124
77. Love-Tails of Morocco (1931)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Family
This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of ... See full summary »
Directors: Zion Myers, Jules White | Stars: Zion Myers, Jules White
Votes: 125
78. Stopover in Hollywood (1963)
Approved | 16 min | Documentary, Short
A young lady drives her red Chevy convertible into Southern California where she has a stopover to enjoy many of the famous landmarks and attractions in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and the surrounding area.
Director: Will Williams | Stars: Lori Lyons, Tony Winhall, Walter Kray
Votes: 90
79. So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck (1946)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
White-collar worker Joe McDoakes is full of fears and phobias, but his most deeply-rooted psychic disturbance is fear of his boss. He has a dream and sees himself as besting his boss and ... See full summary »
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Art Gilmore, Brandon Beach, Tex Cooper
Votes: 247
80. My Old Town (1948)
Approved | 10 min | Short
Narrator 'John Nesbitt' visits his old hometown and reminisces about how much simpler things were there when he was growing up. He also says that he wouldn't want to visit that time again, ... See full summary »
Stars: John Nesbitt, Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, Anne O'Neal
Votes: 83
81. I Won't Play (1944)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Drama, Music
In this Warner Bros. short, a Marine in a South Sea island during World War II, Joe Fingers, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Warren Douglas, Robert Shayne
Votes: 422
82. Match Your Mood with Westinghouse (1968)
7 min | Short
Westinghouse shows women how to improve their lives by selecting the ideal design for their refrigerators.
Votes: 152
83. That Inferior Feeling (1940)
9 min | Comedy, Short
Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: Robert Benchley, William Bailey, May Beatty, Barbara Bedford
Votes: 209
84. Musical Merry-Go-Round #4 (1948)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Music
Virginia O'Brien visits Martin Block as he hosts a radio show devoted to Les Brown and His Band of Renown. A few numbers are heard from the band as Block gives a brief history of how they started. O'Brien also recalls her first movie song.
Director: Jack Scholl | Stars: Les Brown and His Band of Renown, Les Brown, Virginia O'Brien, Martin Block
Votes: 80
85. Cave Explorers (1957)
Approved | 8 min | Documentary, Short
In this Screenliner entry, a group of Austrian speleologists explore a newly-discovered cave.
Director: Heinz Scheiderbauer | Star: Peter Roberts
Votes: 88
86. Booked for Safekeeping (1960)
32 min | Short, Drama
A training film showing police officers how to deal with persons who are mentally ill.
Director: George C. Stoney | Star: James Daly
Votes: 114
87. The Incredible Stranger (1942)
Unrated | 11 min | Short
In 1893, an odd stranger arrives in a small town and keeps a promise he made to his wife.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Sam Ash, Walter Bacon, Walter Baldwin
Votes: 203
88. Don't Get Angry (1953)
11 min | Short, Drama
Short social guidance film teaches children that anger is a natural emotion and shows some of the negative reactions to it. It then teaches how to work out anger in positive, active ways without hurting others or making them angry.
Votes: 99
89. Dancing on the Ceiling (1937)
Passed | 9 min | Musical, Short
A young man follows a pretty girl into her office, which turns out to be a musical dentist office. Cute chorus girls attend to the many male customers, and the girl the young man was ... See full summary »
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: William Irving, Colin Kenny, Mary Jo Mathews, James C. Morton
Votes: 157
90. The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special (2017 TV Short)
TV-PG | 21 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Set in a small suburban town on All Hallows' Eve and centers on Pumpkins and his dancing skeleton sidekicks, who show a young boy and his sister the true meaning of Halloween.
Director: Don Roy King | Stars: Tom Hanks, Peter Dinklage, Mikey Day, Cecily Strong
Votes: 838
91. Hot News Margie (1931)
Approved | 7 min | Comedy, Short
Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Marjorie Beebe, Don Costello, James C. Morton, George Offerman Jr.
Votes: 162
92. My Grandfather's Clock (1934)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Musical
At Phwitterby-on-Thames, England, a murder has occurred and Philo Holmes and Dr. Watkins are out to investigate it. Seems as if there is a second will and changes have been made in who will... See full summary »
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Franklin Pangborn, Charles Judels, William Tannen, Pauline Brooks
Votes: 129
93. The Christmas Party (1931)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Family
Jackie wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team, but doesn't know how to go about it. His fellow stars at MGM decide to help him out.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Marion Davies
Votes: 451
94. Whisperin' Bill (1933)
Approved | 10 min | Drama, Short
A candidate for Congress visits Mr. Bowman at his farm to ask for his vote. In reply, Mr. Bowman recites the title poem. It tells the story of his son, Bill, who answered his country's call... See full summary »
Director: Ben Holmes | Star: Charles 'Chic' Sale
Votes: 73
95. You, John Jones! (1943)
Unrated | 11 min | Short, Drama, War
John Jones' (James Cagney) daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sothern, Margaret O'Brien, Carey Wilson
Votes: 368
96. Crazy House (1930)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
Benny Rubin takes a tour of the "Lame Brain Sanitarium" and meets some of its strange patients.
Director: Jack Cummings | Stars: Benny Rubin, Vernon Dent, Polly Moran, Karl Dane
Votes: 241
97. Roseland (1930)
Approved | 12 min | Short, Musical
A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Ruth Etting, Donald Cook, Kitty Alexander, Jimmy Grainger Jr.
Votes: 208
98. Goodbye, Miss Turlock (1948)
Passed | 11 min | Short, Family
Oscar-winning short film has an adult looking back fondly at his childhood when he was taught in a one-room schoolhouse by Miss Turlock, a stern, but caring and respected teacher.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Nesbitt, Nana Bryant, Fred Fisher, Norman Ollestad
Votes: 249
99. Dating: Do's and Don'ts (1949)
13 min | Drama, Short
A teen boy is given advice on what to do, and what not to do, on a date.
Director: Ted Peshak | Stars: Jackie Gleason, John Lindsay
Votes: 217
100. Buzzin' Around (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Fatty invents a liquid with a property that makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Al St. John, Dan Coleman, Pete the Dog
Votes: 280
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