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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.
- Missionary Cradlebait goes to the jungle to "civilize" the cannibals, but ends up in a cooking pot.
- 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.
- Buster becomes a fireman, but unfortunately not a particularly good one. He has a chance to prove himself, however, when three women are trapped in a burning building.
- Diaper Dampsey must defend his diaper-weight championship, but someone has kidnapped his girlfriend to make him lose!
- A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
- A man who has sworn off women and a woman who has sworn off men must find their budding relationship threatened by aggressive romantic rivals.
- When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
- Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling!
- 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.
- 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.
- Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday, and is disappointed when he learns that he is getting a dog instead.
- 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.
- 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.
- Elmer Doolittle (Buster Keaton), an apprentice seaman doing training at the U. S. Navy's San Diego Training Station, can't seem to keep out of trouble or the brig. Most of his problems derive from the fact that the girlfriend, Dorothy (Dorothea Kent), of Gunners Mate Richard Mack (Vernon Dent)take a liking to Elmer.
- A Scoutmaster falls for a beautiful young carhop, but finds that a beefy traffic cop is also courting her--and he doesn't want any competition.
- Elmer, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
- Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
- 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.
- Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.
- Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
- Sally Newton is in love with Lee Sullivan, a young tenor singer with Johnny Johnson's Orchestra, but her father prefers a stuffy young clerk as her suitor. She makes him taker her to the nightclub where Lee sings. Lee has arranged for Sally to elope with him, his song "Let's Take It on the Chin" being the signal for her. But the clerk has hired a tough gangster to keep Lee from singing.
- Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
- 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 family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
- 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 young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.
- 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.
- Scantilly clad, irreverent nurses keep things cheerful by singing.
- When Junior's parents have their friends visit, they expect him to entertain their daughter. Expecting the worst, Junior pays his kid sister to be a pest to keep them apart. But when the visitor is a beauty, he regrets his decision.
- A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
- Documentary describing the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies, destroying 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago.
- A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
- A chemist's brilliant new concoction makes him a target for gangsters.
- 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.
- Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
- 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 South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
- 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.
- Hillbilly Jenny loves the son of his mother's creditor although his father wants him to marry the daughter of a moneyed man.
- Newlywed Pat gets a raise from his boss. Herman, seeing how simple it is, tells his boss of his own marriage plans. All goes well until both bosses drop in on both young men to "meet the bride." Pat's bride finds herself playing both wives.
- 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.
- Through the adorably persuasive antics of a menagerie of cats, dogs, monkeys, lion cubs, and other animals great and small, Bosom Friends delivers a species-transcending message of tolerance. (Source: UCLA Film & Television Archive)
- Elmer and his girlfriend run away to elope and spend their trip trying to dodge the police who are on their trail after they mistakenly make their getaway in a police car.
- 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 hotel clerk is told to not get familiar with the guest--particularly Mrs. Fish. Suffice it to say, he fails to follow instructions.