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Ask Father

Ask Father is a short, 13-minute, slapstick-style comedy made by Harold Lloyd in 1919 before he got into his classic full-length feature films.

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.

Bye Bye Blackboard

Bye Bye Blackboard is the 193rd and final animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series.

Children of Pleasure

A segment of one of the Technicolor sequences survives in an MGM short subject in color titled Roast Beef and Movies (1934).

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse

Jekyll and Mr. Mouse is a 1947 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 30th Tom and Jerry short.

DysEnchanted

DysEnchanted is a short subject about seven storybook characters: Cinderella, Snow White, Goldilocks, Sleeping Beauty, Alice In Wonderland, Dorothy and Little Red Riding Hood.

Grand Canyonscope

Grand Canyonscope was a Donald Duck animated short released in 1954.

Gus Meins

Meins first became notable as the director of a number of silent short subjects film series, including the Buster Brown comedies of the 1920s.

Happy Go Ducky

Happy Go Ducky is the 110th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1956, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley, and marks the penultimate appearance of Quacker the duckling.

Helen Parrish

She featured in the Our Gang comedy shorts and sometimes played the lead character as a child co-starring some of the great female stars of the day.

Inside Fighting China

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 1942, as part of an expanded category featuring over two dozen nominations for World War II Allied propaganda films.

Johann Mouse

"Johann Mouse" is the 75th one-reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1952 directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley and Jakob Gimpel (who plays the piano in this short) and narration by Hans Conried.

Lene Børglum

Lene Børglum (born 1961) is a Danish film producer who has worked on films in genres including experimental shorts, hardcore porn videos and theatrical feature films such as Lars von Trier's Golden Palm-nominated Dogville.

Mein Lieber Katrina Catches a Convict

Mein Lieber Katrina Catches a Convict is a 1914 American silent comedy short starring Charlotte Burton, Harry De Vere, Perry Banks, Edith Borella, Ida Lewis, and John Steppling.

Old Rockin' Chair Tom

Old Rockin' Chair Tom is a 1948 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 36th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.

Pecos Pest

Pecos Pest is the 96th one-reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created in 1953 directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera scored by Scott Bradley and released in theaters on November 11, 1955 by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

Professor Tom

Professor Tom is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 37th Tom and Jerry short, directed by the duo's creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby, and animated by Ray Patterson, Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse and Ed Barge.

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse is a 1986 short film biography of the Nashville-born artist Red Grooms.

Robin Hoodwinked

Robin Hoodwinked is the 113th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, copyrighted in 1957 and released on June 6, 1958 after the MGM cartoon studio had effectively closed down.

Scott Masters

In 1970, Masters produced his first film, Drilled Deep. It was a "loop" (an 8mm Short film, roughly 200 feet in length, designed to run over and over in peep shows).

Sig Herzig

Born Siegfried Maurice Herzig in New York City, Herzig began his career as the director of the comedy short Husband and Strife (1922), but he switched gears to create plot lines for more than three dozen silent films.

Smitten Kitten

Smitten Kitten is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 66th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.

Springtime for Thomas

Springtime for Thomas (also known as Springtime for Tom) is a 1946 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 23rd Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby.

Sufferin' Cats!

Sufferin' Cats! is a 1943 American one-reel animated cartoon created in 1942 and is the 9th Tom and Jerry short.

The Aztec Economy

The Aztec Economy is a Brooklyn-based non-profit mixed-media joint venture that conceives, develops, and trades in D.I.Y. cultural commodities such as original theater, short films, live music, visual art, happenings, chapbooks, psycho-geographical derives, and mock human sacrifice.

The Little Match Seller

The Little Match Seller is a 1902 British short silent drama film, directed by James Williamson, retelling the classic Hans Christian Andersen fable of the sad life and tragic death of a little match seller.

The Milky Waif

The Milky Waif is a 1946 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 24th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, produced by Fred Quimby in Technicolor, released in theaters on May 18, 1946, and re-released in theaters on January 9, 1954 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

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.

The Two Mouseketeers

The Two Mouseketeers is a 1952 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 65th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on March 15, 1952 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer.

Time Out for Rhythm

They perform their famous "Maharaja" routine here for the first time, (later reused in their 1946 short subject Three Little Pirates) and several other bits, including some of their vaudeville material from their era with Ted Healy specifically the "Melodrama" sketch borrowed from their Healy MGM-era short Plane Nuts.

To a Man with a Big Nose

To a Man with a Big Nose/ danny Z is a 3D animated short film based on a poem by Spanish author Francisco de Quevedo.

TVMobile

It featured re-runs and simulcasts of shows both in Mandarin and English, and lately some in Malay and a little bit in Tamil, from its sister channels and occasionally features original content; for instance, shorts produced in collaboration with Nanyang Polytechnic.

Victoria Horne

Perhaps her best-known film roles were as Myrtle Mae Simmons in the 1950 film adaptation of Mary Chase's play, Harvey, and as Roberta in the 1952 Three Stooges short subject Cuckoo on a Choo Choo.

Woos Whoopee

Woos Whoopee (sometimes referred to as Felix The Cat in Woos Whoopee or Felix Woos Whoopee) is a surreal, animated 1928 Felix the Cat silent short subject produced by Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan.


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¡Que viva México!

Through Sinclair, the Mexican Film Trust attempted to arouse interest from a major American motion picture concern to finish the film, but after months of failure to find among them anyone interested in the property, finally contracted with independent producer-distributor Sol Lesser to produce two short features and a short subject culled from the footage, Thunder Over Mexico, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day all released in 1934.

3-D Film Preservation Fund

Expo II was announced as being the local for the world premiere of several films never before seen in 3-D, including The Diamond Wizard and the Universal short subject, Hawaiian Nights with Mamie Van Doren and Pinky Lee.

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Screen, a 1916 short subject written and directed by Charlie Chaplin

Bill Justice

He is arguably best known as the animator of the rabbit Thumper from 1942's Bambi and chipmunks Chip 'n Dale. He was the director of 1957's The Truth About Mother Goose, 1959's Noah's Ark, and 1962's A Symposium On Popular Songs, all of which were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Short Subject, Cartoon.

Boulder City, Nevada

The Boulder City Chamber of Commerce has used the slogan “Best City By A Dam Site” in promotions, and the city hosts an annual festival of short subject films dubbed “The Dam Short Film Festival”.

Cause for Alarm!

As with all PD MGM feature-length films produced by the studio itself (and possibly a few they merely distributed), the original film elements are now owned by Turner Entertainment, with distribution rights handled by Warner Bros. (who spoofed the title in one of their 1954 short subject cartoons, Claws for Alarm).

Cologne, Minnesota

In 1939, the town of Cologne was preserved on film in the amateur short subject Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther, which chronicles aspects of life in the German-American community prior to the American engagement in World War II.

Drastic Measures

One of the first rock videos (along with "Beat It" and "New Frontier") to be blown up to 35mm film and exhibited in movie theaters as a trailer, the music video for "Fight Fire With Fire," directed by Dominic Orlando, was released theatrically across the USA in 1983 as a short subject with Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish.

Everglade

"Everglade Raid", an animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series

Futureworld

The animated hand was a digitized version of Edwin Catmull's left hand, taken from his 1971 experimental short subject A Computer Animated Hand.

Jittery

Jittery Jester is the 88th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series.

Johnny Downs

Following his stint with Our Gang, Downs stayed with the short-subject series until 1927, appearing in twenty-four two-reelers in various roles.

Lars Olav Karlsen

He has also played the main part in the short subject movie Rikishi, and the music videos of Maria Solheim and Babelfish.

Lisbeth Lynghøft

Films written and directed by Lisbeth Lynghøft include the short subject Little Demons and the feature film Pink Prison (1999).

Package film

Anthology film - a film composed of several short subject films.

Ryan Larkin

Walking was nominated for an Academy Award in 1970 in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoon, but lost to It's Tough to Be a Bird by director Ward Kimball.

The Fallbrook Story

The Fallbrook Story (1952) is a short subject film that told the story of a water rights battle between the citizens of the Fallbrook, California area and the federal government.

Vera White

Perhaps her most accessible performance today is as "Kay's Friend" in the 1928 Laurel and Hardy silent short subject We Faw Down.