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A white man disguises himself as a black man in order to get a job in the city shining shoes. He later travels out west, and gets mixed up with a gold mine and claim-jumpers.

Short film based on the poem "The Prospector" by Edgar A. Guest which follows a prospector from the Old West searching for gold. Al Shayne sing "Take Me Back To The Mountains" while Norman Brokenshire narrates.

Jackie is a scamp with an exasperated father, overprotective mother, and wild imagination. He dreams of being a cowboy, after reading "Wild West" pulp magazine.

A slightly different version of the audience-singalong shorts in which there was no bouncing ball above the lyrics printed at the bottom of the screen. Famed radio announcer Norman Brokenshire sets it up with an invitation and then introduces the singer, Harry Richman,who prompts the audience to sing-a-long on "I Love a Parade." Stock footage of various types of parades is used as background, while Lew White pumps away on the organ. (Yes, there was a Merrie Melodies cartoon with the same title released in 1932.)

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem "Boywood," the scenes are in New England with three boys enacting the (then) activities of childhood. They wander through the woods, over the fields, and down to the old swimming hole. Norman Brokenshire narrates the poems and the activities, while Al Shayne sings a special song written around the poem called "Down the Lane to Yesterday."

This narration-driven travelogue begins with scenes of Manila Bay and the city's harbor. From there, it visits Fort Santiago, watches the delivery of an orphaned baby to Hospicio De San Jose, and explores other parts of the city, as the narration waxes condescending about the various aspects of Philippine life.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is a camera panorama of the American South, featuring scenes of everglade forests,babbling brooks and silvery glades. Mendolssohn's "Spring Song" is the musical theme throughout, and Al Shayne vocalizes with an original song based on Guest's poem. At the close, narrator Norman Brokenshire delivers a philosophical talk that ties up the pictorial themes.