Taxi Talks

Taxi Talks

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...

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The Black Network

The Black Network

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...

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Pie, Pie Blackbird

Pie, Pie Blackbird

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

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Plane Crazy

Plane Crazy

Seasoned Greetings

Seasoned Greetings

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

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20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang

20,000 Cheers for the Chain Gang

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

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Private Lessons

Private Lessons

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...

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Soft Drinks and Sweet Music

Soft Drinks and Sweet Music

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

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Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'

Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'

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

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Masks and Memories

Masks and Memories

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

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Kissing Time

Kissing Time

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

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Bubbles

Bubbles

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...

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Ups and Downs

Ups and Downs

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

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Smash Your Baggage

Smash Your Baggage

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

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One for the Book

One for the Book

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

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The Love Department

The Love Department

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

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Words & Music

Words & Music

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...

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The Knight Is Young

The Knight Is Young

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...

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Wedding Bills

Wedding Bills

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...

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Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island

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

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