Shorts/Cartoons (Big Screen): Viewed

A sketch of human foibles that lead to major aggravations. Pete Smith's 'Mr. Fall Guy' Dave O'Brien has problems while attempting to park his car on a city street; he bumps cars in front of and behind him, or is space-hogging two parking places. At home, he decides to construct a patio in his back yard, and various objects and people, including himself, manage to makes a mess of his wet cement.

This Pete Smith Specialty tells how Glenn Morris trained for and won the 1936 Olympic decathlon event.

A brief tour of Hollywood, California, including looks at the various movie studios and the homes of celebrated movie stars.

A demonstration of various make-ups and the techniques used with them in the productions of movies. Among the demonstrations: an unknown by the name of Robert Mitchum has his chest hair shaved and then replaced with a chest hairpiece.

This documentary short shows two unnamed mountain climbers scaling Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps.

The Brian Sisters are also featured in this short.

A portrait of black Creole life in the Louisiana Delta, accompanied by the hot sounds of Zydeco music.

Alfalfa, Butch and Waldo compete for Mayor for a Day. Whoever becomes mayor gets to take Darla to the Strawberry Festival.

This first entry in the second "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a waterfall whose under-surface builds up because of lime deposits, a clock that strikes 13, and the Tree of Abraham, estimated to be 3500 years old.

While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.

Mary & Sally who just want to get home to Kokomo, Indiana but its not so easy.

Pvt. Snafu complains about being assigned to the infantry only to learn that other branches have their own problems.

Snafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection.

Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces.

Pvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals.

Private Snafu learns the hard way about the need for military discipline and procedures to maintain an effective army.

Private Snafu has a secret: his ship leaves for Africa at 4:30. He's determined to keep it, but bit by bit it slips out, and eventually, the details end up right on Hitler's desk and the ship is engaged.

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

Pvt. Snafu's unit suffers the consequences of him blabbing military secrets while on leave at home.

Pvt. Snafu suffers the consequences of not keeping his equipment and weapons properly maintained.

This entry in the Believe It or Not series (#10) finds Mr. Ripley aboard a US naval ship speaking to a group of sailors. The film he shows them includes items on a Mr. Curt Thompson, a blind telephone operator, and John R. Voorhees, who, at age 102, has voted 81 times since his 21st birthday. The finale is a demonstration of skill by Otto Reiselt, the three-cushion billiards champion.

Eli Whitney is arguably best remembered for inventing the cotton gin. However, those in the know may argue that his most useful contribution to the world is an idea, one he was able to put into practice in the late eighteenth century when he signed a government contract to produce the seemingly impossible ten thousand muskets in two years, most people who could only make at most ninety per year. That idea was what is now coined as mass production. The government officials who entered into the contract with him thought it pure folly, that view strengthened as they saw no muskets month after month after month. However, the people that worked for Whitney, even after his borrowed money ran out, stayed to work for him on the belief of what he was doing, which was kept secret behind locked doors. He may have had some doubts in the idea himself, which may make what is happening today in the world of production even more of a surprise to him.

Portrait of the Cajun lifestyle in Southwest Louisiana.

As a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.

The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.