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- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsRosalie FletcherJenee WelshVirginia PortingaleA student short about an illegal abortion in Sydney in the period of the 1930s.
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardTo inherit a fortune, Shemp must get married by 6 o'clock that very day, but finding a willing bride proves a challenge.
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are tailors, and are heavily in debt to the Skin & Flint finance company. When the boys read about the big reward for a fugitive robber, they think it could be the answer to their problems. The bank robber conveniently ducks into their shop and leaves a suit with a safe combination. After his girl friend fails to retrieve it, the robber returns with gang and a wild fight ensues. The boys miss out on the reward but wind up with the crook's bankroll and can pay their creditors.
- DirectorHarry EdwardsStarsAndy ClydeMatt McHughOlin HowlandAndy Clyde wishes to go golfing but his wife and brother-in-law, Hector, are convinced that Andy needs to go on a picnic with them. Andy is not 100% in favor of this change in his plans and tries every way he knows to avoid the picnic plan. He and Hector discuss it rather loudly and wake up the policeman next door who is sleeping. This leads to further complications.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayA short film which has its emphasis on back street walls with peeling posters and the constant pedestrian traffic in the foreground. It has a static camera positioned in front of the walls; experimental editing techniques, no dialogue-just background music, and quick edits of blackness throughout.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsPeter GreenawayA sort of documentary on the people known to have fallen out of windows in a certain time frame in a certain geographical location. One of Greenaway's early short films.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsPeter GreenawayA narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsColin CantlieHypnotic photography of swirling rivers and misty ponds and droning music (not Michael Nyman for a change) form the backdrop to a documentary-style narration about the history of a fictional tribe in the distant past (or is it the far future?).
- DirectorSegundo de ChomónFerdinand ZeccaStarsJulienne MathieuA demonic magician attempts to perform his act in a strange grotto, but is confronted by a Good Spirit who opposes him.
- DirectorSidney LeveeStarsFritz FeldGreta GranstedtBernard SiegelA sorcerer leaves his apprentice unsupervised with a tiny nymph and a broom. An early live-action film based on the Goethe poem, using the Dukas score.
- DirectorAlexander AlexeieffClaire ParkerMussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?
- DirectorJules WhiteStarsMoe HowardLarry FineShemp HowardThe stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, and is about to skewer them with a sword when it's revealed that the stooges were only telling a bedtime story to their "sons" (also played by the stooges.)
- DirectorDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey must save Pluto from a mad doctor's lair.
- DirectorHarold Mack
- DirectorDave FleischerDave TendlarStarsBilly MurrayMae QuestelFor customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball.
- DirectorMannie DavisJohn FosterWaffles the Cat and Don Dog find themselves at the mercy of animate skeletons inside an Egyptian tomb.
- DirectorLen LyeThe protagonist of this film is a marionette monkey built by the film-maker himself. Lye presented this film as a prototype in the hope of finding partners for a series of puppet films, but without success.
- DirectorVernon Stallings
- DirectorChad McKee GrothkopfStarsTed HusingArt CarneyJim GrossMr. Bee spreads the word that there is going to be a 'PM Picnic' in the barn latter that evening. He tells everyone in the countryside, from Mr. Bear to Mr. Rabit, although he does not invite Mr. Tortus because he's too slow. This was a promotional film made for PM (Plesent Moments) Whiskey to promote their new ad campaign, that features animated woodland creatures along with the slogan describing PM Whiskey and it's 'Clear, Clean Taste'.
- DirectorAnthony GrossHector HoppinA tone poem: two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains, too.
- DirectorMannie DavisJohn FosterStarsMargie HinesAs two feline sweethearts sail along Moonlight Bay, the moon invites them up for a visit. They discover the moon is not made of green cheese, as is rumored, but is actually a land of candy, ice cream and cake.
- DirectorTed EshbaughA young Eskimo and his animal friends build a snow man, only for it to come to life and terrorize the local wildlife.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyBobby BurnsAfter a messy house party while his wife is away, Oliver asks Stanley to help him clean up the place, but free help isn't always a bargain.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyLaurel and Hardy's bid for a quiet evening of checkers and pool is constantly interrupted by their squabbling brats, little Ollie and little Stanley.
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyRussell CusterOllie can't find his hat, much to the amusement of his wife and maid. Then Ollie and Stan attempt to install a rooftop radio antenna.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyMadeline HurlockTo flee from a tireless Forest Ranger, the shabby vagrants, Stan and Ollie, find refuge at a colonel's mansion that is vacant for the weekend. Soon, a couple of newly-weds arrive in hopes of renting the manor. Where is the rightful owner?
- DirectorJess RobbinsStarsOliver HardyStan LaurelFlorence GilbertIn their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
- DirectorDel LordStarsMoe HowardLarry FineCurly HowardThe Stooges escape from jail in order to save their father from gangsters and a beautiful gold-digger.
- DirectorRobert A. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyAllen 'Farina' HoskinsJackie CooperThe gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis? (1924). Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanStarsNorman 'Chubby' ChaneyJackie CooperAllen 'Farina' HoskinsJackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.
- DirectorLewis R. FosterStarsStan LaurelOliver HardyHarry BernardTaking the train to a show in Pottsville, musicians Stanley and Oliver run into trouble once settled in their sleeping car berth.