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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.
- A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
- 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.
- A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
- Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Documentary describing the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in the Dutch East Indies, destroying 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago.
- 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 reluctant baseball player's uncle gets him a shot in the big leagues. In the big game, he gets his chance to be a hero with bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth.
- 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.
- Comic-strip artist Jefferson Machamer (Gags and Gals - Hollywood Hubby) is told to amuse himself when he calls on three old men at their office regarding a business proposition. He does so by making sketches of beautiful girls and then the sketches come alive. He and the old men and the girls end up at a nightclub that features Buddy Page and His Orchestra.
- Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling!
- 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.
- Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
- 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.
- Three aspiring actresses who take their dreams of being discovered to Hollywood end up rooming together while trying to pay the rent and buy food.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- A chemist's brilliant new concoction makes him a target for gangsters.
- Diaper Dampsey must defend his diaper-weight championship, but someone has kidnapped his girlfriend to make him lose!
- The janitor shows a stagehand at a local theater his private speakeasy and offers him a taste of his hooch in this Prohibition-era short.
- 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.
- Osacr-winning Live Action Short film about bees.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unsupervised kids wake up to find the circus has come to town. They sneak in and end up entertaining a group of clowns.
- 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.
- When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
- 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 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.
- A woman auditions for a theater company with her well-armed brothers there to make sure she gets the part. Her whole family attends her stage debut.
- Buster West and Tom Patricola deliver a wax model to Madame LaTour's fashion show, and decide to help the models who are having trouble with the director, who is going to fire them because they won't date him. So they introduce the dummy to the director as "The Princess" and use ventriloquism and motions to make him believe she is real.
- Hillbilly Jenny loves the son of his mother's creditor although his father wants him to marry the daughter of a moneyed man.
- Mrs. O'Leary's cow is brought to the witness stand in court to explain how she started a great fire. Her testimony fades into a very routine fire brigade cartoon.It has little to do with the Chicago conflagration she's famous for.
- Elmer, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
- 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.
- A compilation that features film clips mostly from Educational Film Company comedies of the 1930s
- 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.
- Bert Lahr is a butler in the employ of some newly-rich family. His sweetheart kitchen-worker gives away his sweepstakes ticket to the chauffeur. It turns out to be the big winner. Then Bert has to go to work trying to convince the chauffeur to give him his ticket back, and the chauffeur has no intention of doing so.