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unusual facts about Educational Pictures


Two Black Crows

The second "Moran and Mack" talkie (without George Moran) faltered at the box office, and the team made no further films until 1933, when the low-budget Educational Pictures studio hired them for a feature film and a series of "Two Black Crows" short subjects.


Astor Pictures

In addition to showing many of Bing Crosby's short subjects made for Educational Pictures, put several of them together and released it as a feature called The Road to Hollywood to compete with Paramount Pictures's Road to series.

Stoopnagle and Budd

They also filmed a two-reel comedy for Educational Pictures in 1934, The Inventors, in which they show a college class how to assemble a "Stoopenstein," their version of a Frankenstein monster.

The Road to Hollywood

The Road to Hollywood is a 1947 American film released by Astor Pictures that is a combination of several of Bing Crosby's Educational Pictures short subjects.


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