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Jack Waldron performs his stand-up vaudeville act.
Dealing with the subject of rumor mongering, clips from Nazi films are employed to show how the ruthless invasions of neutral countries were planned in advance.
A musical short featuring George Stoll, Edythe Flynn and The Hot Four.
Earl Burtnett and His Biltmore Hotel Orchestra playing "What'll You Do?", "The Song Is Ended" and "Tiger Rag".
Vitaphone must have really enjoyed Earl Burtnett because they made four shorts together in 1928 and this here was the first. Burtnett introduces the musical numbers as well as the musician doing the tune and for the most part I thought this was fairly entertaining. "Miss Annabelle Lee" was the final number and probably the highlight of everything but the other numbers are well worth listening to.
Crime Does Not Pay constituted an anthology series of crime-themed playlets - short subject dramas produced by MGM between 1935-46. The entire 11-year run appears in this box set. Installments include: Buried Loot, Miracle Money, Don't Talk, You, the People, Phantoms, Inc. and many more." MGM’s Crime Does Not Pay, oft imitated, never matched, an intimate look at mankind’s most seductive and destructive past time – CRIME.
The team of Marlow and Jordan are the talents here as they run through three songs as well as the impressions, which I'm sure you gathered from the title. The Stephen Foster tune "Old Folks at Home" is given a new spin here as it's done by an impression of a 3-year-old, which is somewhat strange to say the least.
The 'Debutantes' are an all female orchestra led and directed by Harry Wayman doing some musical and dancing routines, Harrry accompanies with the violin.
At the police station, four Hollywood cops sing "Skinna-Ma Rink-A-Dink," "Mother Goose Medley," "Cluckin'" and "Waddle."
A young woman named Remington (Ann Howe) arrives out West and soon meets the old man known as Wilbur (Val Harris). Soon after the brief introductions we get Wilbur's stories on romance and women while Remington does a dance.
In this early demonstration of the Vitaphone sound system, conductor Herman S. Heller conducts the Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra in the title work. It is basically a medley of patriotic songs from World War I.
This short was the fourth of four that Earl Burtnett would make at Vitaphone in 1928. As with the previous ones, this here features three songs by Burtnett and his ten-man orchestra.
Buster Bear puts on a show.
A concert film
Remake of the 1973 Bruce Lee film about a Kung Fu master sent to compete in a tournament on a remote island.
A compilation film showing a capsule history of America's involvement in WWI.
In the garden of a convent, Mme. Frances Alda enters, prays before a statue of the Virgin Mary, and sings "Ave Maria" from Otello (Verdi).
Eddie White performs his vaudeville act.
A trained rabbit is plopped into several set-ups with other animals and the results are filmed, meanwhile a narrator cracks wise.
Former cast and crew for The Flintstones share some of their memories about the show.