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- A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
- A musical street scene from the Gay 90s featuring a pretty girl and her numerous suitors, an Irish tenor, a trio of singers and the Salvation Army chorus.
- A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, (a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best fisherman in the world), that inhabits a small rocky island off the coast of Wales. One of the few Educational releases that actually was shown in schools, and one would have had to play hookey every day in order to miss seeing this as a Texas school kid in the 40's and 50's. Footage from this short used in many other wild-life films also.
- Parody trailers are a dime-a-dozen now but they were a real novelty when this short from Educational Pictures ("The spice of the program!") appeared in movie houses. Its satire of "coming attractions" hyperbole encompasses hillbillies singing "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain" in the manner of synagogue cantors and a gag set in the Frozen North.
- Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.
- Unsupervised kids wake up to find the circus has come to town. They sneak in and end up entertaining a group of clowns.
- Crazy inventions that were actually patented are demonstrated in comic sketches.
- Through the adorably persuasive antics of a menagerie of cats, dogs, monkeys, lion cubs, and other animals great and small, Bosom Friends delivers a species-transcending message of tolerance. (Source: UCLA Film & Television Archive)
- Sylvia Froos is working as a singing song-plugger and is about to get fired because no sales result after she has sung a song. But another singer, who has been trying to get her to team up with him, intercedes and starts vocalizing a duet with her. A crowd gathers, sales result, and there is a happy singing finale number.
- Nell will not be able to play Basketball, unless she completes her school reports in 30 minutes. Musical inspiration is supplied by her friends.
- Ben Carter and his Pickaninny Choir sing spirituals accompanied by some tap dancing.
- The members of the Lonely Hearts Club aren't mixing, so Harriet Hutchins takes decisive action. She gets the female membership to put on a floor show, which breaks the ice and makes the club a success. The reel features three dance routines, and a song by Harriet, "I Hate This Thing Called Swing."
- When is wife makes her radio singing debut, her lazy-bones husband is too lazy to lift a finger. Includes the classic song "Lazy Bones."
- A 1938 NFB short. Part of a series called 'Canada Cameos' that traces the history of buffalo in Alberta, it's threat of extinction and the efforts to protect it as an endangered species. Narrated by Lorne Greene. (black and white)
- This short of Educational's Treasure Chest series features intimate close-ups of an animal trainer putting all sorts of four-footed animals and two-footed birds through the paces for the circus and stage shows. Bears, foxes, tigers, pumas and cats and dogs are trained. One act has pigeons socializing with foxes.
- A hillbilly's son is engaged to the daughter of a feuding clan. Country music and a box of exploding cigars provide plenty of entertainment at the nuptials.
- Baghdad beauties on the Manhattan subway.
- For her 10th birthday, the Queen asks for a birthday party. Cue the dancers. And who knew the Queen wore tap shoes?
- Another entry in Educational's series featuring the singing and dancing of The Cabin Kids, a "down South" version of the Meglin Kiddies, but the kids are all black and most likely from New York and not the South. The Black-stereotypes of the era that Hollywood hung on most adult Black performers were also hung on the Cabin Kids. The Kids do a couple of songs and roll their eyes and get scared in this one, which IS a Sound film and not Silent as shown by some sources. Singing was not an attribute that popped up too often in "silent" movies.
- The rivalry between two feuding Kentucky families who enter a local radio contest to win a trip to New York.