 |
MacDonald & Associates Educational and Comedy Musical Shorts |
|
|
Muscial Shorts MacDonald & Associates
Film Jam
Handy Collection
Music Jazz
Short Films Filmed
Jazz Performances
|
EDUCAEducational
Musicals I 12-20C 1)
Rhythm in a Night Court: w/ Jeannie Parillo, Sid Marion, Al
Birnie, Harry Rose, Sylvia Manon & Co., Frances McCoy 1)
Skyline Revue: w/ Paula Stone, Billy and Milly, Sugar Nichols, Ed
Bruce, Willis Clair, plus DeMay, Moore and Martin Calling All Crooners:
w/ Lester Cole and His Octette, The Orchids, Buddy Page Orchestra Educational
Musicals II 12-20C 1)
Hockshop Blues: w/ Carolyn Marsh, Eddie Bruce, Wally and Ver'dyn
Stapleton, Brad Reynolds and His Whispering Rhythm Orchestra 2)
Play! Girls: w/ Joe May and June Earle, The Five Ames Sisters,
The Three Graces,Winnie and Bobby Johnson, Buddy Page Orchestra
(1936) PD 3)
Strike!
You're Out: w/ Barry Sullivan, Russ Brown, The Carlyle Sisters,
Sandra Johnson, Marie Hartman, Maxine Forman, Buddy Page orchestra Educational
Musicals III
12-20C 1)
Love Goes West: w/ Louise Massey and the Westerners, Mary Alice
Rice, George Haggerty 2)
Miss Lonely Hearts: w/ Harriet Hutchins, Aileen O'Connor, Anita
Jacobs, The Michael Sisters, Andy Anderson's Orchestra
(1937) PD 3)
Song Plugger: w/ Sylvia Froos, Brooke Adams, the Six Mountain
Melodeers (1935)
PD The
Cabin Kids: the following
mid-1930s musical shorts from Educational Pictures
12-12A 1)
Life of the Party—kids sing three songs—also black jive trio
The Pope Sisters, and country music group The Six Mountaineers 1935 2)
Rhythm Saves the Day-the kids sing
in a park concert 1937
PD 3)
Untitled—Mammy wins cooking contest at county fair with her mince meat
pancakes Rhythm
Saves The Day—second
copy of film—splicy open and close—short title
4-17B Gifts
In Rhythm: Cabin Kids
with Bob Howard—Kids are in an orphanage and they put on a farewell
how for others who have been adopted—white children also perform—Bob
Howard plays and sings "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie," then he
plays a jazz solo—Cabin Kids perform several numbers including
"You Can't Pull the Wool over My Eyes"
1936 PD 4-24C Trailer
Paradise: Cabin Kids with
Bob Howard—Kids sing two songs—Howard plays and sings "She's
Tall, Tan, and Terrific"
1937 PD
4-17B Two
Black Crows Films:
reel contains the following shorts produced by Educational
Pictures and starring white minstrel show "dialecticians" in
blackface—Mack and Moran as the Two Black Crows
16-3D 1)
As The Crows Fly: the Two Black Crows accidentally
flying an airplane—includes a woman in blackface
PD (1933) 2)
Hot Hoofs: the Two Black Crows buy a race horse
PD (1933) Uncle
Sol Solves It: stars
young Beverly Sills, Buddy Page Orchestra
1938 PD
4-18B Dental
Follies: Pinky Lee as
dentist with live floor show to help patients overcome pain
1937 PD
8-6A Air
Parade: Niela Goddelle
2-reeler with variety acts backed by Johnny Johnson and His
Orchestra—radio program seeks new format and turns to music
(1938) [this print is Official Films]
Renewed 8-9B Who's
Who: Niela Goddelle
2-reeler is comedy of false identities with musical performances
including version of "The Lady from Fifth Avenue"
(1937) Renewed
8-9E Pot
Luck: tap dancing girl,
girl sings "Cuban Pete," other acts
PD 8-6A Cactus
Caballeros: Harry Gribbon
and Joey Faye—story set in Mexico and the search for Black Pedro—has
Mexican dance and music PD
8-5C Rodeo
Day: Frank Luther, George
Shelton, Niela Goodall, The Range Ramblers, The Eight Serenaders—a
comedy filled with county-western songs and cowboys
1935 8-8B Off
The Horses: Bert Lahr in
2 reeler (1937) Renewed
2 Copies T-5C 8-1B Kid
'N' Africa: Shirley
Temple in black Africa 1933
PD -17D Kid
'N' Hollywood: Shirley
Temple in Baby Burlesk from 1933 PD
4-17B The
Pie-Covered Wagon Train:
Shirley Temple in Baby Burlesk cowboys and Indians short from 1932
4-12B War
Babies: Shirley Temple in
Baby Burlesk spoof on World War I cabaret scenario
4-25D
Polly
Tiks In Washington:
Shirley Temple in Baby Burlesk from 1933
PD 4-24A What's
To Do?: a Frolics of
Youth comedy with Shirley Temple—re high school kids holding an
election (1933) PD
8-9D Going
Spanish: Bob Hope in his
first screen appearance costars Leah Ray
1934 PD 4-15B Gay
Old Days: male trio sings
1890s types songs on streets of New York set—singer Frank Luther is
featured 4-18C Always
Kickin’: sports
featurette offers Jim Thorpe in speaking role as himself and as kicking
coach for football team (he explains and demonstrates the proper way to
drive a drop kick through the goal post)—mentions his 1911 Carlisle
game against Army—stars Eugene Palette, James Gleason—directed by
James Gleason sports
(1932) PD
C-26D The
Ring Goes 'Round—Henry
King and his orchestra—musician doubles as secret agent to foil a
theft plot —good big band music spy 1936
4-15D Alpine
Rendezvous: The
Buccaneers singing troupe accompany a miner to the Swiss
Alps—excellent footage of skiers on the Alpine slopes—musical
numbers featuring yodeling—traditional dance number between two men
in Lederhosen (1936) PD
4-15D Holding
The Bag: comedy short
from 1937 stars the Sisters of the Skillet—e.g. Ed East and Ralph
Dumke 8-1B
Renewed Seeing
Nellie Home: hayseed
country comedy with square dancing as two men fight over the right to
show Nellie home (1935) PD
4-25B Beautiful
But Dummies: Buster West
and Tom Patricola in musical comedy featurette set in a fashion
show—tap dancing from Patricola and soft-shoe dancing from West—ends
with an excellent lengthy shot of a radio receiver
(1938) PD
8-7A Girls
Ahoy: West & Patricola
Renewed A-33E Dame
Shy: West & Patricola
Renewed A-33E
Ready
To Serve: West & Patricola Renewed
A-16A
Sing
For Sweetie: unknown young June Allyson co-stars in musical comedy
from 1938—also George Shelton PD
A-33E Easy
Money: Tom Howard and George Shelton filled with vaudeville comedy
as bill collectors hospitalized following an automobile accident
PD 1935
A-33E
Getting
An Eyeful: Danny Kaye stars
Renewed A-33E Honeymoon
Trio: wonderful absurd comedy from 1931 in which a group of escaped
lunatics take over an band and perform their own zany comedy schtik and
great early 1930s dancing and music—a rationalist’s description of
the film follows: men in suits march downstairs
playing music—a dozen men circle around a couple—performers
start playing tag, in which they knock each other down—one man bangs
another man on the head with a guitar—one man, the commander, tells
another to play piano, which is covered in cobwebs—commander opens a
trap door in the floor, and two men in matching suits and hats emerge
and ordered to dance and they start a tapdance together—2 men and a
women watch in shock—the commander tells the dancers to stop—woman
looks alarmed says she has to go, and the commander tells her that she
must see a band play first—he opens a door and another man comes
out— commander says “play music”. When the other man refuses the
commander pulls out a gun. Musicians step onto stage and a row of men
sing and dance. The woman appears to be enjoying herself now. The
commander marches off one of the musicians and shoots him. The commander
tell the man with the woman to play opera. The woman starts conducting a
small band. The commander moves the musicians around, forcing them to
play in strange positions. A group of police come down the stairs, and
they apprehend the musicians and the commander as escaped lunatics.
A-33B Koo
Koo Korrespondence Skool: commercial artist Jefferson Machamer
sketches pretty models in style of Vargas and Petty—has black sidekick
named Cloudy (Henry Jines)—one model sings “Me Myself, and
I”—McDonald and Ross is male-female tap dance duo—includes Mary
Alice Rice, Evelyn Poe, and unknown Carol Bruce
Al Christie comedy (1937)
T-6F
The
Old Camp Ground: Civil War theme with short dramatic sketches and
harmonies on songs from Civil War era—“Old Camp Ground,”
“Dixie,” “Polly Wolly Doodle,” “The Bugler,” “Just Break
the News to Mother,” “The Year of Jubiloo”
C-11E
For
The Love Of Fanny: Al Christie Comedy about
troubles a man goes through to get a woman to marry him, woman will not
marry him unless he is part of a fraternity—so, the man goes through a
daring and humorous initiation process to join fraternity
(1931) T-10B Sleeping
Porch: Paramount comedy short stars John B. Litel—film has a
medical theme (1929)
PD B-4C
Rubeville
Night Club: vaudeville
sketch with music—concerned hick club owner who opens a rural
nightclub—good routine with policeman re Prohibition and
liquor—filled with vaudeville humor and period music, acrobatic dance
team, wonderful comedy string band (banjo, etc.) playing good blues and
jazz piece, “French” Madame LaLa singer-comedienne—a Golden
Rooster Comedy from Pathe very
good print (1929)
PD 8-2E Montmarte
Maddness: man looking for
romance in a small cellar cafe in Montmartre finds songs, can-can
dancers and Apache dancers (1939)
Renewed C-11B Josephine
Baker: short clips duped from her French films
C-11B a)
Princess Tam Tam—fair
dupe of nightclub dance b)
Siren Of The
Tropics: silent preview
with many shots of Baker, including banana dance—improved dupe Fun
Time: Eddie Foy Jr., Noel
Neill, Yvonne DeCarlo—old woman runs a boarding house for
actors—with all the stereotypes
8-14B Mantania:
from Astor Pictures w/ all-black cast with musical numbers and Mantan
Moreland as standup comedian star—also features Butterbeans
1946 8-4D
Paramount
Pictorial: film 5-3 from
October 1935 contains the following segments PD
4-17B a)
Nesting: Arthur
M. Bailey of the Chicago Academy of Art specializes in close-up
photography of birds: hawk, kildeer, etc. b)
Reflections: beauty shots of Canadian Rockies sights c)
America's Song Writers: Tot Seymore and Vee Lawnhurst are
American's only 2-woman songwriting teamthey talk and sing with
male interviewer
|
Our holdings consist of PUBLIC DOMAIN titles
and films that remain protected through copyrights. While
Public Domain footage can be licensed immediately by
MacDonald & Associates, protected films must be cleared
with the copyright holder before being used in a new
production. Just because a motion picture is in our
inventory, it does not mean that MacDonald & Associates
maintains the legal right to license its use. Please contact
us for the copyright status on individual titles.
