2020 shorts

Portrait of an artist as a young manic. First, a montage of still photographs of an artist's face. Then motion. He stirs in sleep; he paints and expresses frustration. He looks for a light for his cigarette. He sketches, wads it up; makes tea; stares at his face in a mirror, then looks at canvas after canvas of self-portraits. He becomes agitated and defaces the work. He rips and tears, punches and kicks the art. Then he destroys mirrors. The catharsis over, he rests and begins again to paint.

A boy shyly watches a girl on a tram. Only when he exits the tram, and its too late, does he realize that he must meet her.

The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.

Mabel's father is the local "constable", he is smitten with the mother of the boy Mabel imagines "her ideal". The couple's romance is disrupted by a misapprehension that a "tramp" is hiding in a closet at the mother's home.

Harry is mistaken for "The Fighting Parson" in a tough western town.

Harry is trapped with a blonde in a burning building.

Harry lands on an iceberg with his rival.

Harry must pose as a woman to help the women he works for get a marriage proposal.

Harry is made the temporary stationmaster in a small town.

Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a slow witted fellow with a spunky girlfriend. A shootout between T-men and the gang spur Harry into action.

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.

The Queen catches the doltish King dallying with a lady in waiting. The queen contrives to keep him cuffed in the bedroom: king, queen, minister, and coquette end up in a game of musical beds. Will his royal highness get his night out?

11 year old Marie is terribly upset by her parents' separation. Her reaction is to cut herself off from the world and take refuge in books, music and dance. This short film is a complement to Jean-Luc Godard's film Je vous salue Marie.

The scene is a parlor out West, with Ray Mayer sitting at the piano in is cowboy duds - hat, scarf, and chaps. He plays a little barrel-house music and then introduces Edith Evans, who enters wearing fur. She sings - her voice a light-opera soprano - while Mayer plays. After singing one song, she leaves the stage to Mayer, who does another comic song, this one with lyrics. Evans returns, having changed costumes, and sings "Sing me a little baby song," with Mayer's sometimes comic accompaniment. The set ends.

Fat, Fatty and Fatter are seen rescuing their old Ford from the scrap wagon that is hauling it away. And then report to work, where they have a dyspeptic boss. With the help of a monkey they manage to wreck the office.

A trio of overweight and incompetent carpenters are hired by a young woman to build a house.

This is translated from a 'Cine-club' catalog Ufoleis (France) 1973-1974. The Three Fatty (A ton of fun) are salesmen in a grocery. Everyone will finish drinking the cider in the flooded cellar.

In this Dogville spoof of _Broadway Melody, The (1929)_, Mr. Cur, a Broadway producer, puts on a show and makes a play for the leading lady.

Another in a series of Metro Movietone Revues featuring various vaudeville acts.