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- Down in Hades, Satan and an audience of devils enjoy band music, a singing trio and a pair of dancers.
- A married couple waiting for the feature film to begin makes snarky comments on this short, which exposes the tricks of various trades.
- Nick (Nick Basil), and Tony (Henry Armetta, as Tony Martin), are New York City taxicab drivers, who are constantly arguing in broken-English and Italian, who take two out-of-town school teachers on a sight-seeing tour of their fair burg. They pick them up at Pennsylvania Station and drive through Washington Square, the Bowery, Chinatown, the financial district, by City Hall and, finally, across the Brooklyn Bridge.
- An escaped lunatic poses as famed detective Silo Dance in this musical comedy mystery set in an old dark house in this spoof of S.S. Van Dine's famed sleuth Philo Vance.
- Edgar Kennedy's brother-in-law finds what he thinks is a missing boy, whose return carries a $500 reward, and takes him to Edgar's home. Once there, the kid turns into a brat and begins to make life miserable for Edgar, whose tolerance is running low, reward or no reward. Then they learn the kid is just playing hooky from school and hiding from the truant officer, and not the one carrying a reward for his return. On his way out, the kid gives Edgar an exploding cigar.
- This one is about as politically incorrect as any in the Edgar Kennedy series, since Edgar ends up in black face impersonating an applicant for a cook's job, Buelah Jackson, whom he had scared off for plot reasons, and who was last seen doing the old feets-do-your-stuff routine. Edgar has become a mail-order Private Detective and a client soon knocks on his door with a job for Edgar. He is to go to a house and get the treasure hidden in a wall. But the residents, Vi and Danny, two crooks in hiding, won't let him in the house. Vi refuses to cook and Danny agrees to let her hire a cook, and makes it clear that all of Vi's other attributes (of which it is implied, with a heavy-handed smirk, there are many) more than offset her lack of culinary skills. Edgar encounters Beulah Jackson, an applicant for the job, outside the house and scares her away and she leaves her agency papers in her wake. Edgar then puts on black makeup, dons a dress, knocks on the door and is hired. And has soon made a shambles out of the house and his cooking assignment. Things get messy. Especially after the police show up and make Edgar take them to the man who hired him. Once there, his client gives Edgar another job... helping him paint an invisible fence.
- This documentary follows a Central and South American expedition led by explorer Lewis Cotlow. The travelogue begins on the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, where the crew visit the San Blas Indians. The narrator describes their colorful dress and notes that the chief product of the island is coconuts. Continuing their travels to the Port of Belem off the coast of Brazil, the crew take a riverboat up the Amazon River, detouring up a tributary, where they spot many wild birds, including toucans, egrets and papagayos. After a brief encounter with a tribe known as the Bororos, who reveal their fishing techniques, they canoe to a section of the river in Peru to visit the Yagua tribe. Male members of the tribe take the crew on a leopard hunt using blowguns and then return to the camp to celebrate. The next stop is the Guano Islands, off the coast of Peru, where seals and guanyos are prevalent. The crew return to the coast to visit with the Colorados Indians, who use red paste made from a native seed to cover their bodies and that of the narrator's, who joins them in decorating his body. The crew then travel to the western base of the Andes Mountains in search of the "hot-tempered" Jivaro tribe. As a result of the Jivaros' religious beliefs that they must seek revenge for the murder of any member of their own family, they have become headhunters. The narrator describes the entire process, from the murder and decapitation to the boiling water process used to shrink the heads. The film closes with narrator commenting that "only men crueler than nature can survive" in the wild terrain of the Amazon jungle.
- Mr. Jones overhears a doctor prescribe a diet he thinks is for him, but it's really for his dog.
- Ray Whitley and the other Lazy-Q cowhands break up a plot by Mrs. Pierce (Isabel La Mal) to have her son George (Sid Coke) acquire the ranch by marrying the owner's daughter (Jean Joyce).
- A look at the destruction that follows the breaking of long-neglected dikes and the measures being taken to prevent future problems.
- Edgar is offered $150 by a nurseryman for a tree on his property, and he plans to remove it with the tractor he won at the county fair. But his neighbor demands some of the tree money as some leafs are hanging over his property. Edgar, on the tractor, ruins a warehouse, smashes a fire hydrant, wrecks a streetcar and tears up the concrete road pavement. Edgar is hauled to court and has to pay the damages. At home, when he yanks the tree out of the ground, it crashes down upon his car.
- British documentary short made to describe the attacks made on England by Hitler's V-1 bombs and the successful destruction of many of these bombs before they could fall on their targets.
- John and Mary love each other but Mary's father is determined to put an end to their romance.
- Leon's family decides to get him to try to stop drinking by convincing him that he's dead.
- Edgar Kennedy finally works up enough courage to evict his in-laws, Florences mother and brother. That same day, Edgar's boss gives him a raise because his boss likes people who take care of their mother-in-law. And, since it is Mother-in-Law's Day where Edgar lives, his boss drops by that night to pay his respects to Edgar's mother-in-law. Edgar, in order to not let his boss know he has kicked his mother-in-law out of his house, dresses up like her, and takes to bed claiming to be ill. No good can come of this...and none does.
- The first of a very short series, since it would become a TV series in 1949, based on the radio program that ran on CBS from 1944 through 1949. The premise of the program was intended as a satire and parody version of the "intellecutual" quiz shows on radio in the 40's, such as "Information Please" and "The Quiz Kids." The show---radio,film and TV (for those who seem to be convinced that the TV program popped up on its own in 1949 and there were no other incarnations)--- was "emceed", as it was, by long-time Vaudevillian Tom Howard, whose function was to ask a simple question of the panelists, i. e., ..."from what kind of mines do we get gold," "who came first,Henry VIII or Henry I", "what do the letters 'U.S.'stand for on United States mail boxes" and such. No question in the history---radio, film, TV---of the show was ever answered correctly by panelists George Sherlton, an old vaudeville-hoofer pardner of Howard's; Lulu McConnell, a performer with a sawblade voice who pre-dated all of the Booths and Barrymores in show business; and Harry McNaughton, a Britisher who looked down on johnny-come-latelys such as Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin. The panel usually spent an amazing amount of time trying to determine just exactly what the question was before taking off on tangents not remotely connected to the question. "It Pays To Be Ignorant"---on radio-films and TV-- was somewhat of a family affair as it was written by Howard's daughter Ruth and her husband Bob Howell, while Tom Jr. orchestrated the music.
- When Errol tries to buy his wife a television receiver, she thinks he is philandering and gets all the wrong ideas.
- A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over Shakespearean speeches.
- Edgar's father-in-law is heir to the worthless family estate in the south. Naturally, Edgar jumps at the chance to take possession and become Col. Kennedy.
- Familiar radio voice Ben Grauer leads the viewer on a behind the scenes tour of the National Broadcasting Company studios, both in Rockefeller Center and Hollywood.
- In order to convince her father that her boyfriend is a rough, tough Westerner, Errol's daughter gets him involved in a stagecoach robbery and a saloon shootout, but a staged holdup proves to be the real thing.
- In this "Jamboree" short, Johnny Long, his violin,and his orchestra provide the novelty music for regular band vocalists Helen Young and Gene Williams (III). The Four Teens are also on hand. This 1942 short was reissued on 31 October, 1947.
- Leon trades in his old car for an expensive new car, which promptly begins to fall apart.
- Errol becomes an unwitting escort for a variety of unappreciative females.
- Leon Errol brings home a singing chicken. He gets a call from Irma, a night club entertainer, who says the chicken (named Irmatrude) is part of her act and is worth $5000 and she wants the chicken back. Leon's problem now is to keep his wife from serving Irmatrude for dinner, and also away from Irma.
- Errol loses his job because he cannot tell a lie, and when he gets involved with kidnappers, nobody will believe he is telling the truth.
- Ray Whitley and his Six-Bar Cowboys Band are working for a rancher named Pop, who has a weakness for goldmines. He trades his ranch for a worthless mine, but Ray and his boys, with the aid of a chorus girl named Mitzi, manage to get his ranch deed back.
- Errol tries to prevent his son from marrying a South American girl by buying the girl a ring. Complications arise when Errol's wife confiscates the ring, and Errol has to impersonate a local bandit to get it back.
- Edgar's boss gives him a few days off as a reward for being promoted. His wife, Florence (Florence Lake), mother-in-law (Dot Farley) and brother-in-law (Jack Rice), think he has been fired for being too fat and, over his fruitless objections, put him on a strenuous reducing program that nearly kills him.
- This RKO short, part of the "This is America" series, details (as much as possible in a 20-minute short) the transformation, following World War II, of the Philippine Islands, from a divided country of six languages and 80 dialects, into a unified democracy-loving nation. The story is told largely through the experience of Thomas Briggs, an Ohio school teacher, who, years before the Japanese invasion of WWII, began his efforts of bringing unity and the story of democracy to the Islands.
- Edgar becomes convinced that employees his age have no chance for promotion as the trend is to advance younger people. Unknown to him, he is about to be promoted to upper management because his boss thinks he is the only employee mature enough to handle to position. But the boss hires Edgar's replacement before he informs Edgar of his promotion, and Edgar, in a desperate attempt to save his job, begins to act younger both in manner and dress. This leads to his boss thinking that Edgar isn't mature enough for the job, and he hires Edgar's sixty-three-year-old retired and free-loading father-in-law (Billy Franey) for the position.
- A deliberately campy send-up of old rustic melodramas in which the villainous Lawyer Stebbins plots to gain control of land belonging to the cider-making Widow James. When he fails in his plot to marry his son Elmer to the widow's daughter, "Cinders," he kidnaps her fiancé, the heroic "Bill Brawney," and ties him to the railroad tracks. But Cinders used to help her father on the railroad, so she fires up the "Iron Minnie" and races to the rescue.