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- A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her.
- A child runs for the Senate, in a short film where toddlers play adults.
- An aspiring actress is rejected by casting, but gets her chance to perform when the star doesn't feel like performing. The cast is all young children, performing adult roles.
- Missionary Cradlebait goes to the jungle to "civilize" the cannibals, but ends up in a cooking pot.
- Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a party. First, however, he has to get his sister Mary Lou to go to sleep, which is proving to be a harder task than he anticipated.
- Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday, and is disappointed when he learns that he is getting a dog instead.
- Diaper Dampsey must defend his diaper-weight championship, but someone has kidnapped his girlfriend to make him lose!
- A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
- A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
- Professor Pierre Ginsberg, extraordinary French instructor, is sailing with a wealthy couple as their instructor and guide in France. But when his client tries out his French in the dining room and everything is wrong, he fires Ginsberg. Two gangster-type Americans ask Ginsbeg to order them a meal, and advise him to get a girl for the ship's ball that night. Ginsberg, of course, picks the wife of one of them.
- A professional magician, "The Great Spumoni", fires his male assistant and his female assistant insists that he hire another one. The young man he hires turns out to have no aptitude whatsoever for a magic act. Complications ensue.
- During the movement to repeal Prohibition, Oxidontal University student editor Elmer Brown is strongly in favor. He loves the daughter of an ardent prohibitionist; by chicanery, he tries to win Gloria and sell his bottle stopper invention.
- A newlywed couple visits the husband's country bumpkin family so his wife can meet the in-laws. She is jealous of the girl he left behind. A bottle of Champagne, a bottle of arsenic, a leaky roof and celery threaten to ruin the honeymoon.
- Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling!
- Documentary describing the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies, destroying 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago.
- Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
- Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute girlfriend. But, thanks to the conniving of his rival, Harry Vanderpool, he and his whole family are going to have to move to Seattle! Sonny needs the help of his pals and his pesky little sister, Mary Lou, to get out of this one.
- A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.
- As the White man takes more and more land from the American Indian, they diminish in number to one, who is pushed to madness. He steals a car and a wild live-action ride ends in a crash.
- Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.
- A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, (a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best fisherman in the world), that inhabits a small rocky island off the coast of Wales. One of the few Educational releases that actually was shown in schools, and one would have had to play hookey every day in order to miss seeing this as a Texas school kid in the 40's and 50's. Footage from this short used in many other wild-life films also.
- Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
- Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
- Elmer, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
- A young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.
- In this 20-minute (on original 1936 release and probably still is) Education short, Bert (Bert Lahr)is a college cheerleader who can not get up the courage to propose to his co-ed girlfriend, Florence Hazbrook (Joan Castle). Dick (Roy Roberts, his room-mate gives him advice which Bert follows and Florence accepts his proposal. Then, Dick discovers that Bert's fiancée is also the girl he is in love with. Dick them sets up a scheme that nearly loses Bert the girl when he goes to ask her father, Dr. Hazbrook (Earle Gilbert), a psychiatrist, for his permission to marry Florence.
- A surprise engagement party is an additional surprise when the bride-to-be brings home her leading man. This comedy of errors leads to a pie fight on the set.
- A farm girl visits her cousin, an out-of-work actress, in Hollywood. Men flock to the fresh-faced newcomer, including the head of a movie studio, whose house they borrow to throw a wild Hollywood party.
- Harry Gribbon is a down-and-outer on the road and stops at a farm for a hand-out. The a farmer's wife makes him chop wood to earn the food and he sees and falls in love with her daughter. The hired-hand is also in love with her so conflicts arise.
- A man wakes up to find that he's being pursued by hallucinations of pink elephants, presumably after a night of drinking.
- A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
- When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
- A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
- Because his family has a history of insanity that breaks out when a family member hasn't married by the time they are 25 years old, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Danny Kaye) visits a matrimonial firm searching for a bride. But all the candidates are either too fat, too young, too old, too skinny or too ugly,and he turns them all down.
- June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. But Imogene, by mistake, picks up the wrong book and reads one on the art of jiu-jitsu. Imogene's first customer is a bashful sailor (Danny Kaye) who gets turned every which way but loose. Hank Henry also appears as a sailor. All four performers had better things ahead of them although,in the case of comedian Hank Henry, not by much.
- Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat dressing as a girl to become Herman's partner in an effort to avoid two homely girls forced upon them by the dean of women. Herman had been counting on his girl to save him but she hasn't arrived. When she does arrive, Herman is in trouble trying to explain his "date," Pat as a girl.
- A man runs into a building after 2 men are trying to kill him. He happens to run into the office of an insurance man, whose boss told him if he messes up again, he's fired. The insurance agent, unaware of his dilemma, talks him into signing a policy. When he finds out someone wants him dead, he has to do everything to keep him alive.
- Elmer Doolittle, a hired hand on a farm, encounters some complications in his romancing and believes he will have to marry the farm-owner aunt of Molly, the pretty girl he loves. Further complications arise when a heavy rainstorm keeps the household up all night as the water breaks through and drenches them in their beds. Comes the day of the "shotgun" wedding and Buster is surprised and delighted when he finds the old aunt is marrying him off to her niece and not to herself.
- A chemist's brilliant new concoction makes him a target for gangsters.
- The first of the series of shorts, featuring magazine-and advertising illustrator and syndicated cartoonist Jefferson Machamer, produced by Educational Pictures, for 20th Century Fox distribution, as Educational Pictures did not operate exchanges of their own. The title for this initial entry was taken from his longest-running strip, "Gags and Gals" of the several he did. This one featured, as did the others in the series, various NYC models and actresses posing in bathing suits, and various stages of getting undressed and getting dressed. Since this was 1936, those stages were usually the beginning and the end of the process.
- A patient-less doctor gets a job in a hospital.
- A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies. The Royal Canadian Mounted parade; William Gargan, Gary Cooper and his wife Rocky are seen; Mary Astor is Queen, and James Cagney, on a horse, is Prince of Pep. Ann Harding on a horse, 'Stuart Erwin (I)' in an oxcart, Eddie Cantor in a chariot, Wallace Ford and Shirley Temple are seen, Chester Morris and Mary Astor catch the chariot race, and Alice White and husband Sy Bartlett are seen. Billy Barty bursts a balloon of Italian balloon seller Monte Carter and is chased. Lee Moran is a barker, Mary Astor buys a balloon, Arthur Housman, drunk, leers at her, and Mary loses her pearl necklace as barker Sam Hardy guesses Billy's weight wrong. The balloon man pays Billy to pop balloons in order that more will be bought. Meantime a necklace search is underway and Chester's balloon is popped. An organ grinder with a monkey plays "Dixie" and Winchell announces that Shirley Jean Durst will do horse tricks. William S. Hart and 'Alice Faye' sit together; May Robson is glimpsed, as a cop becomes suspicious of Billy. A Texas longhorn steer jumps over a car; 'Kenneth Thomson (I)' looks for the necklace, which Mary finds on Housman's balloon. Cantor looks at the camera, Mary smiles, and it's all over.
- Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.
- A compilation that features film clips mostly from Educational Film Company comedies of the 1930s
- Joe gets a job as a newspaper reporter and is sent to the jail to interview a notorious gangster the police have just captured. The gangster steals Joe's newspaper pass, and walks out of jail leaving Joe holding a very messy bag. Joe attempts several futile jail breaks of his own.
- A farm girl visits her fashion model cousin in New York and is discovered by an artist.
- The students at an all-girl college vote Colonel Stoopnagle and Budd as visiting lecturers over Albert Einstein and George Bernard Shaw, and the Board of Regents live to regret it.
- Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.