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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.
- A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
- 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.
- Sonny wants a motorcycle for his birthday, and is disappointed when he learns that he is getting a dog instead.
- Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling!
- A young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both.
- Diaper Dampsey must defend his diaper-weight championship, but someone has kidnapped his girlfriend to make him lose!
- 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.
- A couple unwittingly both invite their fathers to visit on the same day. The problem is, the fathers-in-law detest each other. Hi-jinx ensue.
- A documentary about the first flight over Mt Everest.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A newlywed couple visits the husband's country bumpkin family so his wife can meet the in-laws. She is jealous of the girl he left behind. A bottle of Champagne, a bottle of arsenic, a leaky roof and celery threaten to ruin the honeymoon.
- A snooping reporter at a college newspaper angers a rival sorority, so they steal a statue before its unveiling to get revenge, leading to a sorority vs. sorority brawl. Co-eds end up tearing each other's clothes off.
- Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 surprise engagement party is an additional surprise when the bride-to-be brings home her leading man. This comedy of errors leads to a pie fight on the set.
- A man wakes up to find that he's being pursued by hallucinations of pink elephants, presumably after a night of drinking.
- 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.
- 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 chemist's brilliant new concoction makes him a target for gangsters.
- 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.
- Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat dressing as a girl to become Herman's partner in an effort to avoid two homely girls forced upon them by the dean of women. Herman had been counting on his girl to save him but she hasn't arrived. When she does arrive, Herman is in trouble trying to explain his "date," Pat as a girl.
- Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- A South American festival brings slapstick love trouble to Bob Hope.
- A compilation that features film clips mostly from Educational Film Company comedies of the 1930s
- Joe gets a job as a newspaper reporter and is sent to the jail to interview a notorious gangster the police have just captured. The gangster steals Joe's newspaper pass, and walks out of jail leaving Joe holding a very messy bag. Joe attempts several futile jail breaks of his own.
- The aspiring actresses get a call offering all three an acting job. The problem is, while celebrating their good fortune, no one asked which studio hired them, so they set off in search of the job.
- After a woman experiences what happens to her when she joins the "Do a Good Deed a Day" Club, she feels like murdering the president of the organization.
- As Al and Dorothy start their honeymoon, Al finds to his horror that Catlett is coming along, and takes the wheel of their car, putting Al in the rumble seat. He pushes Al around,until he can't stand it and resorts to violence.
- Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?
- A duo of elixir-selling street peddlers try to con the town's yokels. One citizen is so impressed that he hires them to auction his furnishings but they mistakenly get into the local police chief's home and start auctioning his furniture.
- 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.
- Students Pat and Herman are friendly rivals for dancer Grace McDonald. Timberg's father is the unwitting backer for their college show, and when the dean starts looking for them, Rooney and Timberg impersonate each other to keep from being caught.
- 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 group of ambitious mothers arrive at the Fox film studio with their offspring. One child breaks away from her parent and follows Jackie Cooper around all day.