Zion Myers

6

The Dogway Melody

Dec 20, 1930

The Dogway Melody

1930 17 min 4 vues

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.

Comedy

7

So Quiet on the Canine Front

Jan 31, 1931

So Quiet on the Canine Front

1931 16 min 1 vues

During anatomy class, students learn that war has broken out. Several enlist and are sent to Camp Poodle, for rookie training. At first the constant shelling bothers them, but within a week they are veterans, unfazed. Barker sort of volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines disguised as a nurse to get the enemy's troop movements. He's captured and sentenced to die, so his mates in the Airdale Army attempt a rescue. Will they succeed?

Comedy

6.8

College Hounds

Sep 27, 1929

College Hounds

1929 16 min 4 vues

This Dogville comedy is a spoof of college football movies. A man in debt to a loan shark uses his daughter to stop football hero Red Mange from playing in the big game between Airedale College and Spitz University.

Comedy

5.2

Love-Tails of Morocco

Sep 02, 1931

Love-Tails of Morocco

1931 17 min 4 vues

This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of Amelita Galli-Curci) sing an aria. After the show, they go to the local bar and tell each other the stories behind the reason they joined the legion. All the stories are about how women did them wrong in one way or another. They all agree that they are fed up with women, until a certain visitor shows up.

Comedy

1

Hot Dog

Aug 16, 1930

Hot Dog

1930 15 min 1 vues

In this Dogville short, a married dog is out on the town with her lover boyfriend, which leads to conflict when the husband shows up.

Comedy

5

Here Come the Waves

Dec 18, 1944

Here Come the Waves

1944 99 min 7 vues

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

Music

6.2

Buster millionnaire

Sep 26, 1931

Buster millionnaire

1931 74 min 7 vues

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

Comedy

6

The Dogway Melody

Dec 20, 1930

The Dogway Melody

1930 17 min 4 vues

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.

Comedy

6

The Dogway Melody

Dec 20, 1930

The Dogway Melody

1930 17 min 4 vues

An all-dog cast (with human voiceovers) recreates famous scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The finale is a chorus line of dogs performing "Singing in the Rain" spoofing Cliff Edwards' original version of the song in The Hollywood Revue of 1929. Also spoofed is Al Jolson's performance of "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer.

Comedy

6.8

Skylark

Nov 21, 1941

Skylark

1941 92 min 3 vues

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.

Comedy

1

Crabbin' in the Cabin

May 13, 1948

Crabbin' in the Cabin

1948 18 min 1 vues

Wally and Eddie's hunting trip is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of their wives.

Comedy

7

So Quiet on the Canine Front

Jan 31, 1931

So Quiet on the Canine Front

1931 16 min 1 vues

During anatomy class, students learn that war has broken out. Several enlist and are sent to Camp Poodle, for rookie training. At first the constant shelling bothers them, but within a week they are veterans, unfazed. Barker sort of volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines disguised as a nurse to get the enemy's troop movements. He's captured and sentenced to die, so his mates in the Airdale Army attempt a rescue. Will they succeed?

Comedy

1

So's Your Antenna

Oct 10, 1946

So's Your Antenna

1946 18 min 1 vues

Harry plays a gangster on a radio show and is then is mistaken for a real one.

Comedy

6.5

Love Thy Neighbor

Dec 27, 1940

Love Thy Neighbor

1940 82 min 2 vues

Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars play versions of themselves, constantly at each other's throats due to real and imagined slights.

Comedy

1

Inflation

Jun 15, 1933

Inflation

1933 11 min 1 vues

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

Comedy

6

The Big Dog House

Apr 08, 1930

The Big Dog House

1930 17 min 3 vues

In this MGM Dogville series short, an all-dog cast play out a story of jealousy, murder and justice thwarted.

Comedy

5

Who Killed Rover?

Apr 08, 1930

Who Killed Rover?

1930 15 min 1 vues

In this Dogville mystery, a wealthy resident leaves his fortune to his nephew, who is then kidnapped by jealous relatives. Detective Phido Vance tries to find the nephew before any harm can come to him.

Comedy

1

Hot Dog

Aug 16, 1930

Hot Dog

1930 15 min 1 vues

In this Dogville short, a married dog is out on the town with her lover boyfriend, which leads to conflict when the husband shows up.

Comedy

6.8

College Hounds

Sep 27, 1929

College Hounds

1929 16 min 4 vues

This Dogville comedy is a spoof of college football movies. A man in debt to a loan shark uses his daughter to stop football hero Red Mange from playing in the big game between Airedale College and Spitz University.

Comedy

5.2

Love-Tails of Morocco

Sep 02, 1931

Love-Tails of Morocco

1931 17 min 4 vues

This Dogville short takes place at an outpost in the Dogville Foreign Legion. As the story opens, the soldiers watch a newsreel, which includes the opera singer Galli Cur (a spoof of Amelita Galli-Curci) sing an aria. After the show, they go to the local bar and tell each other the stories behind the reason they joined the legion. All the stories are about how women did them wrong in one way or another. They all agree that they are fed up with women, until a certain visitor shows up.

Comedy

6

Trader Hound

Apr 08, 1931

Trader Hound

1931 15 min 1 vues

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides, they are searching for a lost princess, Nina T-Bone. After sleepless mosquito-filled nights, clothes lost to a mischievous monkey, and a battle royal between a lion and a gorilla, they make their way to Izorgi Village, where the fierce Afri-Curs live and where Nina T-Bone may be a prisoner. Trader Hound and his party are taken captive, and the Afri-Curs prepare a pot to boil them. Can they make their escape?

Comedy

6

The Two Barks Brothers

Oct 17, 1931

The Two Barks Brothers

1931 17 min 2 vues

In this Dogville Comedy short, twin brothers are separated at birth when one is stolen by gypsies. One becomes a district attorney, the other a drifter. Thirty years later, circumstances bring them back together.

Comedy

4.5

Man About Town

Jun 29, 1939

Man About Town

1939 85 min 3 vues

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

Comedy

1

Dogville Collection 2

Jan 01, 1970

Dogville Collection 2

1970 137 min 1 vues

A collection of Dogville Comedy shorts, showcasing creatively costumed "talking" dogs of various breeds and spoofed thenoble and naughty behaviors of people. The second disc contains The Big Dog House, Love Tails of Morocco, Two Barks Brothers, and Trader Hound.

Comedy

1

Dogville Collection 1

Jan 01, 1970

Dogville Collection 1

1970 137 min 1 vues

A collection of Dogville Comedy shorts, showcasing creatively costumed "talking" dogs of various breeds and spoofed thenoble and naughty behaviors of people. The first disc contains Hot Dog, College Hounds, Who Killed Rover?, The Dogway Melody, and So Quiet on the Canine Front.

Comedy

1

Kick Me Again

Nov 24, 1925

Kick Me Again

1925 13 min 1 vues

Don’t expect much in the way of a plot from Kick Me Again. When a married student falls for her portly dance instructor, Puffy is forced to flee in a ballet tutu from the clutches of her jealous husband. The usual slapstick complications ensue before the cross-dressing funnyman finally locates a new suit of clothes. The viewing pleasure comes not from the run-of-the-mill gags and storyline but from seeing a master wring every ounce of comedy from his ungainly outfit. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Universal Pictures, in 2013.

5

They Wanted to Marry

Feb 05, 1937

They Wanted to Marry

1937 60 min 3 vues

Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.

Comedy

1

A Dog's Pal

Apr 26, 1927

A Dog's Pal

1927 137 min 1 vues

A comedy short from Zion Myers starring Jerry Madden.

5

I'm a Monkey's Uncle

Oct 07, 1948

I'm a Monkey's Uncle

1948 16 min 4 vues

Set in the stone age, the stooges are cavemen who must have various misadventures hunting, gathering, and otherwise coping with prehistoric life. When some other cavemen threaten to take their women ("Aggie", "Maggie", and "Baggy"), the boys fight them off with a catapulting tree branch that shoots rocks and eggs.

Comedy

6.8

Heavenly Daze

Sep 02, 1948

Heavenly Daze

1948 17 min 4 vues

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry's sales pitch, but it looks he's headed for the fires below anyway.

Comedy

1

Jiggers, My Wife

Apr 11, 1946

Jiggers, My Wife

1946 18 min 1 vues

Shemp Howard, in this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 7438), knows many ways to get into trouble with his wife, and one he opts for here is stay out late playing poker with the boys and then tell his wife he has been working.

Comedy

1

April Fool

Nov 15, 1926

April Fool

1926 67 min 1 vues

An out-of-work pants presser starts an umbrella business and makes a fortune. His daughter is set to marry the nephew of a rich neighbor until the nephew is accused of stealing money from his uncle--but the money was really stolen by the rich man's son.

Comedy

6.5

Bedlam in Paradise

Apr 14, 1955

Bedlam in Paradise

1955 16 min 4 vues

Shemp dies but cannot get into heaven until he reforms Moe and Larry. He returns to earth as an invisible spirit and sets out to prevent the other two stooges, who are in league with the devil, from selling a phony invention (a fountain pen that writes under whip cream) to a rich couple. Shemp sabotages Moe and Larry' plans and makes it through the pearly gates.

Comedy

6.5

Stone Age Romeos

Jun 02, 1955

Stone Age Romeos

1955 16 min 4 vues

The stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen.

Comedy

5

Make Way for a Lady

Nov 13, 1936

Make Way for a Lady

1936 65 min 5 vues

An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1936 comedy stars Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame, Clara Blandick, Frank Coghlan Jr., Willie Best and Maxine Jennings.

Comedy

4.3

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

Jan 07, 1960

Stop! Look! and Laugh!

1960 78 min 4 vues

Moe, Larry and Curly appear in short subjects linked by ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummies.

Comedy

6

Trader Hound

Apr 08, 1931

Trader Hound

1931 15 min 1 vues

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides, they are searching for a lost princess, Nina T-Bone. After sleepless mosquito-filled nights, clothes lost to a mischievous monkey, and a battle royal between a lion and a gorilla, they make their way to Izorgi Village, where the fierce Afri-Curs live and where Nina T-Bone may be a prisoner. Trader Hound and his party are taken captive, and the Afri-Curs prepare a pot to boil them. Can they make their escape?

Comedy

6

Trader Hound

Apr 08, 1931

Trader Hound

1931 15 min 1 vues

Trader Hound, a dog who walks upright, wears human clothes, and speaks English, is in darkest Africa with a young sheik who is looking for adventure. With their native guides, they are searching for a lost princess, Nina T-Bone. After sleepless mosquito-filled nights, clothes lost to a mischievous monkey, and a battle royal between a lion and a gorilla, they make their way to Izorgi Village, where the fierce Afri-Curs live and where Nina T-Bone may be a prisoner. Trader Hound and his party are taken captive, and the Afri-Curs prepare a pot to boil them. Can they make their escape?

Comedy

6.3

Old Man Rhythm

Aug 02, 1935

Old Man Rhythm

1935 75 min 3 vues

Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

Music

5.9

Two in the Dark

Jan 10, 1936

Two in the Dark

1936 74 min 7 vues

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.

Crime

1

To Beat the Band

Nov 23, 1935

To Beat the Band

1935 70 min 1 vues

An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.

Music

6.7

Half-Wits Holiday

Jan 09, 1947

Half-Wits Holiday

1947 18 min 6 vues

A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.

Comedy

6.7

Half-Wits Holiday

Jan 09, 1947

Half-Wits Holiday

1947 18 min 6 vues

A professor bets one of his colleagues that he can turn the Stooges into gentlemen within 60 days. With the aid of his pretty daughter, the professor tries to teach the boys proper etiquette. After many frustrating attempts, he introduces the Stooges into society at a fancy party. At first things go all right, but the party soon degenerates into a wild pie fight.

Comedy

6

Color Scales

Apr 23, 1932

Color Scales

1932 8 min 1 vues

This humorous short film shows various species of tropical fish at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California.

Documentary

1

Lucky Dog

Apr 20, 1933

Lucky Dog

1933 60 min 1 vues

A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.

Drama

1

Lucky Dog

Apr 20, 1933

Lucky Dog

1933 60 min 1 vues

A rich man's enemies cause him to lose his money, his best friend (his dog), as he goes to jail. Once free he spends all his time hunting for his lost dog.

Drama

1

Hot Dog

Aug 16, 1930

Hot Dog

1930 15 min 1 vues

In this Dogville short, a married dog is out on the town with her lover boyfriend, which leads to conflict when the husband shows up.

Comedy

1

Keep Trying

Feb 14, 1926

Keep Trying

1926 137 min 1 vues

Comedy