The Three Stooges- Even As IOU (1942)

In this comedy short, The Three Stooges help a destitute mother and her daughter by utilizing the money from the child's piggy bank and winning a horse race. A couple of con men met up with them and convince them to buy a washed up retired race horse named Seabasket. While taking care of the horse, Curly swallows a Vitamin Z pill meant for the horse and things begin to change. Even As IOU is the 65th short by The Three Stooges and was released on September 18, 1942.


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The Proof Parade- Frigidaire (1937)

This advertising short outlines the marketing campaign for the 1937 Super Duty Frigidaire Refrigerator with Meter-Miser. It follows the distribution, planning and marketing of this new refrigerator line.

Just Rambling Along- Stan Laurel (1918)

This vintage short features Stan Laurel in his earliest surviving work during his solo career. It is also his first project with film producer Hal Roach.

Vintage Chicago Billboards (1942)

To Market, To Market was produced by the Handy (Jam) Organization and sponsored by the General Outdoor Advertising Company. It takes a look at outdoor advertising in and around Chicago. There are great vintage shots of street scenes, vintage automobiles and advertising unique to the period.

The focus of this production was to explain the strategy of outdoor advertising and to encourage advertisers to use it. There are great shots of vintage billboards as well as examples of graphic art and advertisements of the day.

Hollywood Rhythm (1934)

A behind the scenes look at the new songs written by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel for the movie College Rhythm. Also appearing in this short is Lydia Roberti and Jack Oakie.

By the Fireside (1945)

An advertising short for Maypole Tea describing the English pastime of afternoon tea.

Play! Girls- Musical Short (1930s)

Play! Girls is a short low-budget musical film by Educational Films Corporation of America, a highly prolific maker of short films.

Walt Disney- Silly Symphony Music Land (1935)

Music Land is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short released in 1935. It features a princess violin from the sleepy Land of Symphony who is chased by a more lively saxophone from the Isle of Jazz.

The Three Stooges- Spook Louder (1943)

In this episode, The Three Stooges are selling a weight reducing machine. They have no luck until they show up at the house of an eccentric inventor where they are hired as caretakers. Spook Louder is the 69th short starring The Three Stooges and was released on April 2, 1943.

Little Rascals- Feed 'Em and Weep (1938)

The Little Rascals crash a birthday party for Mr. Hood (Darla's father) in this classic short.

Les illusions fantaisistes (1910)

Les illusions fantaisistes (Whimsical Illusions) is a vintage short directed by Georges Méliès, a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema .

Are Manners Important? (1954)

In this Encyclopedia Britannica Film, the actions and experiences of a thoughtless elementary school boy who maintains that "kids don't care about manners" provide a basis for discussing the importance of manners.

Beer Promotion Film: As We Like It (1952)

Short film produced by the U.S. Brewers Foundation explaining the history of beer and the role that the industry provided in 1950s America.

Office Blues- Ginger Rogers (1930)

A delightful one-reel Paramount musical short from 1930, Office Blues stars then-unknown Ginger Rogers as Miss Gravis, a perky young stenographer who has a big-league crush on her dark and handsome boss, Mr. Ross.

A Place to Live- Philadelphia (1947)

Interesting short film produced by Brandon Films and based on a survey by the Philadelphia Housing Association which highlights the problems of housing in Philadelphia in 1947. Among the highlights is the groundbreaking of the Richard Allen Homes, a massive public housing project built to replace blighted areas as well as provide housing for new workers attracted to the city for wartime production. This development, however, became a hotbed of crime and drug dealing in the 1970s and 80s and has since been torn down.

The film includes great vintage footage of Philadelphia at that time.

Paramount Short: Hollywood on Parade (1934)

Excerpt from a 1934 Paramount short that features a live-action "Betty Boop" performance. The clip features Bela Lugosi as Dracula plus two other Paramount stars of the time (Eddie Borden and Rex Bell).

The Three Stooges- Pardon My Scotch (1935)

Pardon My Scotch is the ninth short subject starring the Three Stooges. In this short, the stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch.

Girls Beware (1961)

This is a film from 1961 about the dangers of independent behavior of teenage girls.

Shirley Temple in 'War Babies' (1932)

War Babies is a 1932 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and is the second in a series of eight one-reelers that satirized adult films and themes called Baby Burlesks. The casts in the series are pre-schoolers dressed in adult costumes on top and diapers fastened with large safety pins on the bottom.

Laurel And Hardy- The Music Box (1932)

The Music Box is a Laurel and Hardy short film comedy released in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film, which depicts the pair attempting to move a piano up a large flight of steps, won the first Academy Award for Live Action Short Film (Comedy) in 1932.