Roy Mack

Hal and a theater manager see people watching a building excavation for entertainment. They suggest that city employees entertain their customers,...

In this musical short, the leading lady is a French woman who finds mystery and romance on a luxury liner. There is much music with a chorus of...

Old Lace is a 1931 Musical short.

Dr. Whoozis' vitamin and exercise routine turn young girls into super-charged pin-up models

Dr. Whoozis' vitamin and exercise routine turn young girls into super-charged pin-up models

A womanizing night club singer who has his pick of many beautiful showgirls tries to climb socially and break into society but soon discovers the...

Phil Emerton and his band play tunes and accompany guest performers, including singer-dancer Hannah Williams, the singing Three X Sisters, and...

An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes....

Four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating...

In this parody of Grand Hotel, despite a dying man's efforts to enjoy his final days, a jewel thief trying to comfort a great dancer, and a big...

Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden preparing their latest meal. After the meal, they take a stroll through time. They make a few stops along the...

Ruth Eton (Ruth Etting), a singer with a traveling show troupe, is engaged to the troupe manager, Joe Grant (Edward Leiter), but when Ruth's younger...

Singer Ruth Eton, of the singing team of Eton and Farrell, is told by her agents to get rid of her partner if she wants to advance her career....

Ruth Etting shows how she make a perfect three minute egg by singing a song with a length of exactly three minutes.

A pretty dance hall girl is looking for the right guy.

Anita Ragusa, the daughter of a costume company owner, delivers a dress for a costume ball at the last minute. The snobbish customer doesn't like the...

A Soundie with Gale Storm with The Fashionaires.

A Soundie with Bobby Sherwood’s Orchestra, The Three Cheers, and Diana Castillo.

In this short, multiple acts perform before an audience in a town hall. Performers include The Aaron Sisters singing trio and the Mound City Blue...

Host Ted Husing provides his slant on three different sports. The first is cricket. The main action takes place on what is called the pitch, which is...

Leroy's dance is an eccentric one performed to the tune "Dinah", played to a fast, jazzy beat, and his feet certainly keep up. More than that, while...

Walter Webb, thinking his gas station has been destroyed, describes a "super-deluxe" gas station run by chorus girls to his insurance agent.

A movie producer announces that Lillian Roth has been signed to do a movie and he calls a story conference with a director and writers to come up...

In this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".

A group of redcaps in a train station perform musical numbers to raise money for a sick member of their group.

Harry Reser and his orchestra perform popular songs of the day and accompany guest performers.

MGM's all-star feature Dinner at Eight is parodied in this comic short, in which a cast of unidentified look-alike actors impersonate Lionel...

A fantasy satire on politics in which a little boy dreams that he becomes President of the U.S. and his 'mammy' is Vice President. The film...

In this musical short, two night watchmen hear songs performed in a haunted pawn shop.

A talented tap dancer who can't get an audition uses his prowess at playing craps to gain ownership of a musical show, making himself the star.

A resort owner tries to marry his daughter to a millionaire, but his scheme doesn't turn out exactly as planned.

A doctor develops pills that make Hal a great tap dancer. Lola Green sees Hal dancing in a drugstore and asks him to join her vaudeville show....

The owner of an unsuccessful greeting cards store decides to sell 'talking' greeting cards in the form of records.

A Vitaphone Varieties short. Features costumed children in a cavern-like land of make-believe where they sing and tap-dance. Marjorie Kane sings an...

Short featuring musician Eubie Blake and his orchestra, singer Nina Mae McKinney, and young tap dancers Fayard and Harold Nicholas.

Isham Jones and His Orchestra, with other cast members, perform some of the orchestra's biggest hits.

Richard Himber and His Orchestra plays us a few songs.

The Duncan Sisters (Rosie and Vivian) and their college dorm mates sing a song to their alma mater while packing up to leave college at the end of...

Black vaudeville acts are featured in this Vitaphone Pepper Pot short. In addition to those listed in the credits, acts include The 3 Whippets, a...

A musical revue in which a golfer is knocked unconscious by a golf ball and dreams that the Country Club is loaded with beautiful girls.

A hobo named the Professor and his son, Charlie McCarthy, believe there's money buried in an abandoned house which was previously owned by a fellow...

The owner of a shoe polish company sponsors a radio show that showcases black performers. Since his wife's father put up the money to be the sponsor,...

On a set resembling a yacht, Roger Wolfe Kahn leads his orchestra in several popular tunes of the day. Billed and un-billed guest acts also perform....

In this short film, Babe Ruth proposes to put a song about baseball on the radio.

Woody Herman's orchestra plays five tunes, and guest performers sing and dance.

"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quartette play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.

Two hotel guests are told the hotel is on fire, but the other guests and firefighters seem unconcerned.

George Hall and his orchestra couldn't find a hotel in the city where they are scheduled to appear, so they break into the basement of the theater in...

A Warner Bros.-Vitaphone Melody Master: The harmonica band is offered a radio gig... by their landlord! Their imaginations take them to various...

A commercial passenger jet has gone missing on its flight from Mexico to New York. In reality, the plane did crash, but everyone aboard is physically...

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned, because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead a miniature orchestra. A deacon...

In this 'Vitaphone Melody Master,' orchestra leader Ray Kinney sings Hawaiian songs while The Aloha Maids perform native dances.

Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.

An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.

Ozzie and his orchestra play a few tunes.

Her doctor thinks Rita Rio is crazy for loving music too much, but she proves him wrong by becoming a successful bandleader.

In this 1939 short in the Melody Master series, that was re-released in 1948 and 1955, Artie Shaw) leads his orchestra in "Begin the...

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

Short comedy/musical film featuring Josephine Huston and Phil Silvers.

Another in the long series of "Pete Smith" shorts from M-G-M in which William Newell meets and falls in love with Sally Payne, and begins to budget...

A young American man in Paris spots a beautiful woman in a crowd and is instantly smitten, but soon loses sight of her. Later, as he and several...

When he is fired from his job, Red puts a hex on his boss. That evening, the boss goes to a nightclub and discovers that the hex worked.

Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all...

Duval's Fashion House is struggling, Mr. Duval believes in large part because of his playboy son, Jack, not pulling his weight in the business....

In this musical short, General Bierbeau sends his weakling son, Pierre, to French Morocco to fight Arab insurgents, the Riffs, in the hopes that this...

In this Vitaphone Broadway Brevity musical short, Hal and Dawn work at the same vaudeville theater, where he's an usher, she's a chorus girl. When...

State College is a coeducational school where the athletics are more important than academics. All there are preparing for a big multi-sport match...

Hal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some...

In this musical short, three individuals try to entice a reclusive uncle to join the festivities during Mardi Gras.

Songwriter Benny Davis goes through an elaborate buildup before he is allowed to sing a collection of his songs. He takes a group of his friends...

In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy's plane runs out of gas and lands in the African jungle. After a short comedy routine between the two, some natives...

A miniature vaudeville show, complete with a title card introducing each act, is presented. First up is The On-Wah Troupe, an East Asian group of...

Nazi spies mistake Snuffy Smith's moonshine for a new secret rocket fuel and try to steal the "formula."

Famed Major League baseball pitcher Waite Hoyt, playing for the New York Yankees in 1930, in addition to being a mortician in the off-season, was...

A baritone mountain climber visits a Swiss inn, where he sings to raise money for an aging singer.

Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of...

Another entry in Robert L. Ripley's series. This time we also get to see Dan Edwards, the most decorated U.S. Veteran who is also missing a hand. For...

This entry in the Believe It or Not series finds Mr. Ripley aboard a U.S. naval ship speaking to a group of sailors. The film he shows them includes...

In this Broadway Brevity short, a soda jerk/songwriter dreams (literally) of performing his songs on Broadway.

DeWolf Hopper thinks he is on the verge of death and a couple of newspapers are bidding for the story rights. One of the newspapers is willing to pay...

In this Broadway Brevities short, a stunt double is hit on the head and imagines himself in a series of movie scenes with doubles for various stars.

An up-to-date salesman shows a department store how to improve its business, to the strains of syncopation.

A self-effacing prizefighter assumes a very different attitude once he hits the big time.

Three incidents in a cab driver's day: a college boy wooing a flapper, a gold digger wooing a southern colonel, gun moll kills gangster and wants to...

Newspaper columnist helps finishing school students get out of trouble after the night club in which they go to see him is raided.

This short humorously recreates the experience of going to a nickelodeon during the silent film era, using footage of silent films and sarcastic...

Freddie Rich and His Orchestra perform popular songs and accompany guest performers

A display what Vaudeville had to offer, with the likes of Carl Emmy and His Mad Wags, The Three Queens, Jack Pepper and His Society Pets and little...

This short film satirizes theatrical opening nights.

Henry Santry's band is comprised of self-proclaimed soldiers of fortune. Within their concert set includes the opening declaration of them being...

Early soundie with Gwen "Verdun" dancing while Warren Jackson croons "The Girl After My Heart".

Martha Tilton sings "Love Turns Winter to Spring" in this Soundies film from 1941.

A black-face minstrel preacher motivates his congregation in song. Gags include a stockpile of guns outside the church and stolen chickens.

'Blind Bob' has written a song and the folks at the music publishing company think that Joe Frisco, his old friend from the Bowery is just right for...

A drunken fool by the name of Paul Revere Wilson (or Williams or something) drinks too much and imagines himself living in 1776.

June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and...

As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.

Robert Ripley shows a pretty blond a shrunken head and an iron execution chamber.

Robert Ripley draws and shows movies to train passengers.

Newspaper columnist Mr. Inquisitive telephones readers to ask, "What would you like to do?", with the chosen responses being eligible for a prize....

A movie director needs a script girl . A strip girl, misunderstanding the job title, shows up.

A Warner Bros Vitaphone short that promoted "Girls...Songs....Laughs." No full print exists but the Library of Congress has acquired one musical...

In this entertaining short, famous literary figures step out of the pages of books after dark.

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

Singer Ruth Eton is looking for some new songs to use in her act. Don Hopkins is a songwriter who wants to break into the business, but knows it is...

This short features Judy Garland's very first film solo, Blue Butterfly. The film footage no longer exists.

In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.

This Vitaphone short has Hugh Herbert tossing in some comedy lines while Walter Pidgeon relates the history of the new-fad (in 1936) game of...

Dave Apollon & His Orchestra "Trees", "The Lady in Red", "Born to Swing" and "Shine".

A few musical numbers from Dave Apollon and His Orchestra.

As a husband and wife eat breakfast, they argue about anything and everything.

An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy.

From the Melody Masters short series (1931-1932 Season).

In this 100% fictional-plot short a fictional freshman, played by an actor named Don Tomkins), becomes smitten with and writes letters to a singer,...

David Rubinoff (popularly known as Rubinoff and His Violin) and his Orchestra with vocalist Jean Sargent perform in this rare 1933 Vitaphone short. ...