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- The classic OutRun revisited but with the addition of a split-screen two-player head-to-head mode and the option of a selection of cars to choose from.
- This short dramatizes how profoundly the inventions of Thomas A. Edison have affected the world in which we live. In addition to the electric light, Edison developed the system of alternating current that carries virtually all of the world's electricity, as well as storage batteries and electric motors. Other highlighted inventions include the phonograph, automatic stock ticker, wireless telegraphy, mimeograph machine, and, of course, the world's first motion picture studio.
- "The Montice Harmon Show" appears to be an endeavor that seeks to explore the complex issues of today's society, politics, and Black culture, while also highlighting the importance of complying with the laws of love and unity.
- Some unknown parents leave a baby on Andy's doorstep and this gets him in several kinds of trouble with the police. But, before it is over, Andy is cleared, when the mother is found, and the police are trying to convince him he needs to adopt a second foundling.
- Pirates take a hula dancer as captive and it's up to her beloved to rescue her.
- Starving artist Robert Whistle sells a picture of a fish to a customer and while the money is being paid, a cat eats the picture, and Whistle has another no-sale. He then paints a picture of the cat, and a dog rips it to shreds and the great Whistle loses another sale. He then paints a picture of Mildred, a maid in his boarding house, that brings him great success.
- The Earl of Clanranald, obliged against his will to attend a meeting of conspirators against King James (II) of England, is arrested. His death warrant is signed by the King and dispatched to Edinburgh by Sir Harry Richmond of the King's Bodyguard. Lady Katherine, the Earl's daughter, dresses up as a highwayman meets and later holds up the King's messenger. She receives a sword wound in her shoulder, but secures the warrant and burns it. Upon hearing her story, Sir Harry promises to do all in his power to secure the release of Lady Katherine's father.
- In this entry of RKO's "Newlyweds" series, Bob and Betty are fighting over the way she spends money, and, in order to put a stop to her buying of antiques, Bob tells her they are broke. Posing as a gangster's moll, Betty convinces an antique dealer that there are valuable antiques at her house, and sells her chairs at auction and makes a huge profit.
- The subject deals with Europe's problem of economic recovery, following WWII, and the struggle against the expanding pressure by Russia. The film shows that the Communists lost their first test of strength in France when Premier Robert Schuman succeeded in breaking the Communist-agitated strikes. Life in present-day France (1948), with its economic and political stress, is exemplified by a typical Parasian family that wants neither the extreme Left nor the extreme Right. They prefer the middle-of-the-road party led by Robert Schuman. The conclusion is that The Marshall Plan (designed by and named after U. S. Army General George C. Marshall) will stabilize European economics.
- The second entry in RKO's "Pal" series of shorts has Gary Gray rescuing "Pal" (Flame the Wonder Dog) from a rabbit trap, and Gary and the dog become devoted to each other. The owner shows up and reclaims the animal, but Gary's minister buys the dog and returns him to the boy.
- The inhabitants of the quiet mouse village are thrown in a panic when it is learned that that a strange planet is approaching. The planet lands and throngs of bat-winged cats attack the mice with strange weapons. But Mighty Mouse arrives and sends the invaders fleeing.
- The first Screen Snapshots of the 1946-47 season (production number 8851) features popular radio performers as the (voice) characters they played on radio programs; Mel Blanc from two programs, the Joan Davis and Judy Canova shows; Dave Willock, "Tugwell" of the Jack Carson program; Jeanne Roos, Jack Benny's telephone operator; Dr.Horatio Birdbath from the Spike Jones show; Pat McGeehan from the Red Skelton program; and Jane Eberhardt, the B-O-O-O Girl. All of the performers seen in this short were seen in shots showing them IN CHARACTER on the various radio programs this short was compiled from, and none of them played "Self." Him , Her..or Them.
- Andy tries to save his nephew, who he believes is being taken advantage of by a blonde nightclub singer.
- Screen Snapshots No.8 in 1945-46 series (production number 7858) is a review of the film comedy talents of previous eras and years.
- Virginia Maxey runs away from her actress mother to find a career for herself. The mother hires a private detective to find her, which he does, auditioning for Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra. Plus, the girl and the detective fall in love. All of this in 18 minutes, plus six music numbers from the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and still time for conflict between the mother and the detective before the ending.
- A high-society woman, mingling with the artistic set in Nrw York City, gets snared in a tangle of lies, and is forced to fight against overwhelming odds to care for her beloved child.
- A swing band takes extraordinary measures to appear on a radio program.
- The successful operations of a lone bandit known as "The Night Hawk" terrorize a frontier town, and when a stranger arrives riding a fine horse, suspicions are aroused and he is mistaken for the criminal. Winifred, who is engaged to dam engineer William Kirk, shelters the stranger from the sheriff, but Kirk has him arrested. Kirk decides to steal the company payroll and dynamite the dam; he accomplishes these acts but is captured by the stranger, who is revealed to be a company agent detailed to investigate Kirk.
- Two detectives are plagued by the practical joke-pulling president of a novelty toy company.
- Another of the endless "bouncing-ball" sing-alongs from Columbia and Ben K. Blake with an organ player---Dick Leibert in this and many others---pumping out tunes to be sung by The Song Spinners, while the lyrics are shown on the screen and the audience (very seldom) joining in on the singing. Most of the audience usually headed for the concession stand or the rest rooms when these things came on. Especially when songs such as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "San Antonio Rose" were being slaughtered by organ music.
- Wanda, a dancer, is a victim of mistaken identity: her picture is published in the newspaper as being "Chicago Sal," a notorious gun-woman. Every theatrical manager to whom she applies for a job recognizes her and calls the police. Wanda escapes from the police, finds the real "Chicago Sal," and receives a high-paying theatrical contract and starts on her way to stardom.
- Regan and Burns intend to foreclose a mortgage on Lowery's ranch. Lowery's foreman, Bill Demming, and his assistant get into a scrap. Bill runs away and is charged with murder. He impersonates Lowery in order to get money from the latter's grandfather to pay off the mortgage, succeeds, but is compelled to marry the old man's niece, Alice. Bill is cleared of the murder charge, Lowery's ranch is saved. Bill and Alice face a happy future together.
- Ann (Shirley Mason) unwittingly goes through a bogus marriage ceremony with a thief (Malcolm McGregor) and is help by the police as an accomplice to his crimes.
- The cats aren't doing well at all in luring the mice into their traps, so they decide to have one of their hep-cat band members make like the pied piper of old while trolling musically through the streets of Miceville. So the hep-cat trolls while playing a hot clarinet, as it is known far and wide to one and all, that the citizens of Miceville are fond of 1940s swing music, and it is no time at all before the hep-mice are following the clarinet player to their impending doom...but, wait...what's that in the sky...could it be Mighty Mouse flying once again to the rescue of the Miceville citizens? Could be.
- The first of a series of two-reel short based on "Flying Fists" in the "Saturday Evening Post" stories written by Sam Hellman on the Flyweight Boxing Champion of the world, Benny Leonard. Leonard, at various times in his career, held other world-champion titles at various weights.
- Harry T. Underdog, neighbor of Chris Crusty (Dave O'Brien), lives up to his name when Crusty starts showing off. But, before Crusty's escapades are finished, Mr. Underdog employs some retaliation methods that deflate Crusty completely.
- Heli's misfortune begins when her mother, the landlady, marries for the second time. The man is bossy and brutal. In an argument between stepfather and brother, Heli intervenes: She throws a hatchet, the stepfather falls and is killed.
- One of the "Famous Melody Series," with sound-on-disc, produced by James A. Fitzpatrick and distributed by Pathe Film Exchanges Inc. This one finds the usual star, Peggy Shaw, as the dancing-partner wife of an Apache dancer in an underworld dive in Paris. She is loved by a crippled violin player, whose death is caused by her husband who has thrown him down in a sub-cellar. Shaw is at his side when he dies, while her husband dances with another partner on the floor above them. Running through the films is a song played by the violinist.
- State Ranger Lucky Saunders (Russell Hayden) meets Steve Kirby (Tristram Coffin), a newcomer running for sheriff, at a birthday party for Gayle Foster (Alma Carroll). Lucky immediately distrusts Kirby, but everybody puts it down as jealousy and they accept Kirby. Latter, two rustlers seize Doc'Cannonball' Jones, the town animal doctor, and take him to a shack where they force him to treat a wounded outlaw. While there, Cannonball sees an envelope addressed to Kirby. He tells Lucky and they follow the rustlers when Cannonball spots them in town, but ride into a trap and Lucky loses his horse. The cattle belonging to Dan Foster (Joel Friedkin), Gayle's father, are stampeded the following night and Dan is killed. Lucky's horse is planted on the scene and he is thrown in jail. But the town sheriff (Hal Price) gives him one hour to prove his innocence.
- Production number 5302 in Universal-International "Name Band Musical" series of shorts featuring Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, with a much-larger-than usual number of supporting acts.
- This Universal "Name Band Musical" features Woody Herman and his Orchestra assisted by the Mello-Larks, Terry Gibbs, Patricia Lynn, Margaret Brown and Peggy Castle.
- Operating along the Texas/Mexico border. "Pinto" Quantrell and his gang kidnap a government engraver and force him to make counterfeit plates for United States currency. One of the gang kidnaps Barbara Steelmen, a rancher's daughter, but undercover-agent Jack Beresford outwits the gang and rescues both kidnapped hostages.
- Blinded in a train accident James Driscoll (Holmes Herbert), whose wife, Miriam Driscoll (Belle Bennett), has been having an affair with his young male secretary Phillip Kingston )Carroll Nye), regains his eyesight.He keeps this from his wife, who continues her affair. Finally, he invites his young niece Nancy Driscoll (Josephine Borio) in the hopes she will fall for Philip and vice-versa. His ploy works , James reveals he can see again, and husband and wife are reconciled.
- After he finds his wife Stella in the arms of ne'er-do-well Allan Standish, Ralph Gordon takes his daughter June out West, where he has extensive mining interests. The inhabitants of Hell's Gulch, who lately have been terrorized by "Rawhide" Pete and his gang of outlaws, elect Ralph sheriff. Standish, whose desertion of Stella has caused her death, arrives in Hell's Gulch and allies himself with Rawhide Pete, while competing with Ralph for the affections of June's governess, Sarah Malcomb. June assists in capturing Rawhide Pete, but Standish escapes and Sarah, moved by pity, agrees to conceal him. Assuming that Standish has again beaten him in love, Ralph catches a train East, but Sarah follows him and becomes June's new mother.
- A cruel sea captain (Charles Middleton) oversees a rough crew.
- Eddie's cowboy friends frame up to make him propose to his sweetheart.
- Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor Marvin comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves. They then decide to paint the living-room table and end up painting the whole house trying to cover their mistakes. Marvin accidentally gets Joe caught in the washing machine, thinks he is seeing him on a television set, and goes home leaving Joe to tumble-and-rinse.
- The Universal "Name Band Musical" short headlines Billy May and His Orchestra, with vocals supplied by Marion Colby and the Page Cavanaugh Trio. Numbers played include "Don't Blame Me" and "Except For Lovin' You."
- Pretty Irish lass Pegeen O'Barry lives in a small fishing village on the cost with her kind but alcoholic father and her vicious stepmother Moll. When her father is killed during a drunken brawl, a stunned Pegeen wanders down to the shore in her grief. She is noticed by Sir Arthur Ormsby, an Englishman who just happens to be sailing his yacht up the coast. He takes a liking to her and before long she's moved into his estate. Things are going along swimmingly until Arthur's wastrel brother Guy shows up.
- This FICTIONAL short begins with a few sight-gags done around watching Jefferson Machamer, syndicated newspaper cartoonist on such strips as "Hollywood Husband" and "Gags and Gals", doing a few sketches of some decorative models (for his "Gags and Gals" comic strip), and some dancing by Ruth Clayton, and the dance-team of Stanley & Elaine, are tossed in the mix. The mix includes a plot that has the fictional Machamer (played by the real Machamer)getting tossed into jail for eating too fast in his home-made sidewalk café.
- Mom goes to the hospital and daddy is left at home to take care of the baby, and he has a terrible time feeding, bathing and changing him as disaster is the result of every thing he attempts. Finally, after hours of exhaustive work, the baby is asleep, and the father hears from the hospital that his wife has just made him the father of triplets. He then goes outside and starts shoot of the passing storks.
- A small-town police officer named Bill Kennedy enrolls at the F. B. I. National Academy in Washington D. C. yo learn law enforcement methods and investigation techniques which, after his three-month course, he will take back to his home town and teach other officers on the police force.
- Charles Murray, a neighbor of Booker, wants to marry the latter's daughter, Louise, and uses a mortgage to overcome the young woman's objections. Louise wants to wed Wayland, her father's hired man, but Booker is frightened by the prospect of foreclosure of the mortgage and refuses to consent to the love match. A marriage of convenience is arranged, but this receives a rude jolt when Wayland falls heir to a small fortune. Booker opens the letter and reads the glad news and the hired man doesn't know why his employer suddenly changes his mind and consents to the wedding of the farm hand and his pretty daughter. When Murray is confronted with the change of affairs he demands an explanation. Booker shows him the letter. On the day of the wedding Murray sends a fake telegram to Trask informing him that the first news was wrong; the fortune was left to another man with the same name. Giving it to a messenger, he starts for the Booker home with a minister, believing that his plot will be successful and that in the circumstances Booker will be glad to throw out the hired man and accept the neighbor in whose hands is the fatal mortgage. But the messenger dawdles by the way and when Murray and the minister arrive there has been no cloud cast over the ceremony is in progress. Booker intercepts the telegram but refuses to read it until the couple have been pronounced man and wife. Then he reads. Later he goes for his shot gun, believing that Wayland has obtained Louise by a trick. Before murder is actually committed, however, a man arrives with the hired man's $10,000, the mortgage is paid off and Murray put to rout by a few well-directed charges of buckshot.
- Droppington, an apartment house owner, is unable to renew his fire insurance on account of difficulties in collecting rents. The insurance agent accidentally sets fire to the house with a cigarette, and Droppington makes fast and furious attempts to save his insurance policy. During the excitement he tries to rescue Mrs. Mack Swain, wife of one of the tenants, a female acrobat. Meanwhile, Swain, also a skilled contortionist, has suspended himself from the roof, a living fire escape, over which children, carrying cats and other pets, walk to safety. When the confusion has somewhat abated, Droppington discovers that he has had the insurance policy in his pocket all the time.
- Pierre Rameau, the son of a poor gate-keeper, becomes the foremost physician and surgeon in Paris. Conchita, his wife who he loves above everything else in the world, dies leaving an infant daughter, Pamela. Rameau is inconsolable and keeps the room that Conchita died in inviolate, visiting it only on the anniversary of his wife's death. Twenty years later on one of these visits he discovers, among one of Conhita's letters, proof that she had been unfaithful to him and that Pamela, the girl he had raised from an infant to womanhood, was not his child. The shock drives him out of his mind, and he drives Pamela from his home, refusing to ever see her again. Dr. Talavanne, his best friend, informs him that Pamela is dying and only Rameau's skills as a physician can save her.
- A lawyer gives an assistant to server papers on Puffy on his wedding day. A friend in the lawyer's office telephones Puffy and tells him to look out for a bearded man. Puffy tells his friends to protect him from a bearded man at the church. The bride's father and the minister have beards, and the friends tie them up and lock them away. And so it goes. When the messenger finally get to Puffy, the message is that Puffy must be married by six o'clock or he will lose his inheritance.
- Ray Whitley and his Six-Bar Cowboys band are playing in a saloon in order to earn enough money to enter a rodeo. They soon learn that their music can lull the patrons into pleasant listening, or into a free-for-all scuffle.
- A one-reel short shot against a nightclub background in which several names from New York City radio programs do a variety of turns. Jack Gilford, a mimic, gives his takes on the likes of Harry Langdon, Rudy Vallee, George Jessel and Henry Armetta'. Loretta Lee sings a song and Babs Ryan does a musical number with the help of her brothers. Edward Paul and his orchestra provide the music.