Walter Lundin

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony of enduring the dieting and weight-losing programs and exercises is compounded by the usual food-and-sweets temptations.

A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.

This short film focuses on Bess, considered to be the smartest horse in the movies, as she works with her trainer.

Two expert badminton players demonstrate how the best play the game, including some slick trick shots. Meanwhile, befuddled bungler Bellamy B. Birdbrain bumbles his way through building a backyard badminton court. (This film is played in its entirety in MGM's short feature "The Great Morgan")

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several scenes from early newsreels are shown.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every four years. So, the gang decide to have a surprise party for him.

After Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach him once and for all not to lie. What the gang doesn't know is that the monkey is real, and hilarity will ensue.

The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learning the identity of the leader of a gang of bullies.

A 3-D short subject in which the narrator goes to a creepy old house in search of his missing aunt. There he encounters the Frankenstein monster, a witch, a wooden Indian who comes to life, and assorted other monsters and frightening characters, all of whom manage to throw something toward the camera.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, Dr. Harold E. Edgerton demonstrates stroboscopic photography, which he helped develop. This process allows us to see in slow motion what happens during events that occur too fast to be seen by the naked eye. Examples shown here include a bullet in flight as it shatters a light bulb, the moment of impact when a kicker kicks a football, and the motion of a hummingbird's wings as it hovers.

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

Stan e Ollie receberam a missão de ir à Oeste do país, em Brushwood Gulch, para entregar a Mary Roberts, a filha de um próspero e falecido garimpeiro, um documento que determina que ela agora é dona da mina de ouro de seu pai. Só que os problemas começam assim que eles chegam à cidade: a esposa do xerife está descontente com eles por terem pego uma carona com ela para chegar à Brushwood Gulch e o guardião legal de Mary, Mickey Finn, quer que sua esposa se passe pela moça, a fim de enganar os mensageiros e se apropriar da mina.

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.

The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.

O conde Arnheim odeia ciganos e um bando deles está acampado do lado de fora de seu palácio. A esposa de Oliver não faz segredos de sua afeição pelo simpático Devilshoof. Quando este é castigado por ter invadido a propriedade do Conde, a Sra. Oliver seqüestra por vingança a filha do conde e foge em seguida com Devilshoof, deixando a criança com os ciganos. Sem saber de sua verdadeira identidade, Oliver cria a menina com a ajuda de Stanley.

Stan and Ollie stow away to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. When things don't quite turn out that way, they unwittingly enlist in the Scottish army and are posted to India.

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.

Stan and Ollie play bumbling circus performers who inadvertently drive the circus into bankruptcy. The circus can't pay them their wages so they are given a gorilla and a flea circus as payment. Bedlam ensues.

Um clássico: O Gordo e o Magro tentam desastradamente, levar um pesado piano até uma casa localizada numa ladeira. Único filme da dupla a receber um Oscar. Inclui também 'Um Amigo Trapalhão'.

It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.

Long lost German language version of the Laurel & Hardy film "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case" When Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies and leaves behind a large estate, they think their days of living off the fish they catch are numbered. But they soon learn that Ebenezer has been murdered. All relatives, including Stan, are under suspicion.

Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Depois de perder seu emprego, Speedy começa a trabalhar como motorista de táxi. Ele descobre um esquema da companhia de trens para acabar com os bondes puxados a cavalo. Os bondes pertencem ao pai da sua namorada, então Speedy organiza os moradores mais antigos do bairro para tentar impedir os planos da companhia de trens.

Eddie, a prim store salesman, gets locked in overnight and battles hoodlums.

Harold está interessado em Mary, mas ele precisa vencer sua timidez para isso. Durante uma viagem, ele a convida para ficar na sua casa. Mais tarde, quando acontece um roubo na cidade e o pai de Harold é acusado, é Mary quem lhe dá forças de correr atrás dos culpados.

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Harold Lamb está tão entusiasmado por ter ingressado na faculdade, que tem trabalhado para ganhar dinheiro para suas pequenas despesas, como estagiário na faculdade, e aprendendo um modo especial de se apresentar como ele viu num filme. Quando ele chega à Universidade de Tate, logo se torna objeto de piadas de mal gosto e é ridicularizado. Com ajuda do uma amiga leal, a Peggy, ele se esforça e tenta solucionar o problema e faz todo o possível para ficar popular.

Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

Harold tenta a vida na cidade grande antes de se casar com o grande amor de sua vida. Porém ele só consegue ser um mero vendedor. Quando a garota decide ir até a cidade ao seu encontro, ele faz de tudo para fazê-la pensar que é um bem sucedido gerente.

Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.

A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

Nosso herói está apaixonado por uma garota no escritório ao lado. A fim de angariar negócios para seu chefe, um osteopata, ele consegue que um amigo ator finja ferimentos que o médico "cura", construindo assim uma reputação. Quando ele ouve que sua namorada está se casando com outro, ele decide cometer suicídio e passa a maior parte do filme em emocionantes tentativas fracassadas.

Enquanto está em um parque de diversões, tentando em vão esquecer a garota que perdeu, um jovem vê a garota com seu novo namorado. Quando seu cachorro fica solto no parque, os dois pretendentes precisam ajudá-la a pegá-lo. Então, o tio da menina, um balonista, dá a ela um passe para dois em seu balão, desde que sua mãe aprove. Ela então se oferece para levar o primeiro de seus admiradores que conseguir o consentimento de sua mãe.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

Um jovem em Nova York exasperou seu pai por causa de sua farra constante e irresponsabilidade, então seu pai o manda para o rancho de seu tio no oeste. O jovem chega à cidade de Piute Pass, que está sendo aterrorizada por Tiger Lip Tompkins e sua gangue, os Masked Angels. O oriental faz amizade com uma jovem cujo pai está sendo mantido em cativeiro por Tompkins e decide ajudá-la.

Depois de várias tentativas frustradas de suicídio, nosso herói (Lloyd) encontra um advogado que está procurando um fantoche para substituir o noivo a fim de garantir uma herança para seu cliente (Davis). A herança é uma casa, que seu tio intrigante "assombra" para assustá-los e reivindicar a propriedade.

A Harold Lloyd short featuring a young Snooky the chimp

Harold and his boss get in a lively rivalry over the new stenographer.

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

Harold and Snub, camping in the wilds, prove too much for the Indians that take them captive.

Chop Suey & Co. is a 1919 American short comedy film

Harold becomes the victim of a clever bulldog pup who chases him in and out of various places.

It's a classic boy-meets-girl story, boy-loses-girl, boy gets mistaken for an escaped convict and ruthlessly chased by armies of cops across the countryside in a thrill-packed stunt-addled climax.

In this popular two reeler where Harold runs to the rescue of a woman on a fire engine, he is seen hanging on the moving vehicle by the released water hose that forces him closer to the ground.

Um jovem educado saiu de casa e agora está tocando piano em um bar no oeste. O perigoso criminoso Dagger-Tooth Dan entra no bar onde o jovem está jogando. Logo depois, chega também o xerife local, com algumas cartas que recebeu. Eles notificam as cartas e ele troca as informações nelas para fazer o xerife pensar que o pianista é o perigoso.

Bebe is surrounded by suitors, but her father wants her to marry Professor M. T. Noodle. Harold makes his move by impersonating the professor.

Bebe and girlfriend go shopping for new corsets. Harold sneaks into the corset shop and a customer asks him to take her measurements - a ticklish task, as the brash young man suddenly becomes playfully bashful.

A photo studio operator seems only interested in flirting with women. Hilarity ensues.

A rich man's daughter has more suitors than she's interested in, and he's going to marry her off -- even if she doesn't know about it.

Harold Lloyd starred in the successful Lonesome Luke series. However, he soon grew tired of the obvious Charlie Chaplin imitation. In an attempt to reinvent himself, Lloyd donned a pair of horn-rimmed glasses, and thus, a new comedy legend was born. Setting himself against Chaplin, Lloyd's "glasses character" was an everyman, a resourceful go-getter who embodied the ambitious, success-seeking attitude of 1920s America.

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

A short film starring Harold Lloyd.

In order to claim his inheritance, our hero must first produce a wife and family.

Our hero is a police officer who gets involved in a crap game, flirting with a nurse and other amusements.

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his "title."

Our vagabond hero dons a lifeguard's uniform and madcap antics ensue on the beach, and in the changing stalls!

Harold's checked cap, blown from his head by a freakish wind, gets him into trouble. First he comes into conflict with the police as a highwayman, then the cap serves to identify him as a housebreaker and lands him in jail, while the innocent cause of his trouble becomes his cellmate for another reason. Eventually a distracted wife rescues both her husband and Harold from the clutches of the law, the cap this time aiding him to regain his freedom.

While on the job, delivering a message, Luke finds himself in a girl's seminary.

Dorothy Davenport as Clara Madison, a prominent lawyer, wins a judgeship over fellow Attorney Grant Williams, played by Willis L. Robards. Upon winning the prominent position as judge, Ms. Madison finds herself walking a political tight rope with enemies all around doing what they can to cause her down fall. Judge Madison convicts a murderer to death paving the way for her to be easily elected as the first female Governor. As Governor she is faced with a difficult dilemma. She has the power to pardon her husband who has been convicted of a serious crime, but to do so she’d be using her office for her own personal gain. “I must find some way to realize my ideals without sacrificing my husband. I must struggle on somehow for the sake of womanhood!”