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A musical street scene from the Gay 90s featuring a pretty girl and her numerous suitors, an Irish tenor, a trio of singers and the Salvation Army chorus.

Unsupervised kids wake up to find the circus has come to town. They sneak in and end up entertaining a group of clowns.

A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.

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)

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.

For her 10th birthday, the Queen asks for a birthday party. Cue the dancers. And who knew the Queen wore tap shoes?

The orphans in an orphanage throw a surprise birthday party for one of the nurses, and put their talents on display with song and dance numbers.

Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.

The members of the Lonely Hearts Club aren't mixing, so Harriet Hutchins takes decisive action. She gets the female membership to put on a floor show, which breaks the ice and makes the club a success. The reel features three dance routines, and a song by Harriet, "I Hate This Thing Called Swing."

Sylvia Froos is working as a singing song-plugger and is about to get fired because no sales result after she has sung a song. But another singer, who has been trying to get her to team up with him, intercedes and starts vocalizing a duet with her. A crowd gathers, sales result, and there is a happy singing finale number.

When is wife makes her radio singing debut, her lazy-bones husband is too lazy to lift a finger. Includes the classic song "Lazy Bones."

Nell will not be able to play Basketball, unless she completes her school reports in 30 minutes. Musical inspiration is supplied by her friends.

Crazy inventions that were actually patented are demonstrated in comic sketches.