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- Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
- Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.
- Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
- Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
- After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?
- Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
- Claude Kirchner hosted this children's show with a mixture of cartoons, film shorts (like "Diver Dan", which combined a live action actor and sea-creature puppets), and occasional guests. Cocomarsh Milk Mix was a longtime sponsor.
- Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
- Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.
- Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they're out of a job, as well as their lodgings when the landlady finds out they've been fired. The boys try their luck at being street musicians, but the tiffs they get into with each other soon spread to passersby in general, until the street is filled with men pulling each other's pants off.
- Instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
- At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.
- A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
- Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
- Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their 'healthy' mountain water. Mr. Hall, who has left his wife with the boys while he refuels his car, is not amused at his wife's condition when he returns.
- In Shillalah where Corrigan (Stan Laurel) works as a postman, quarrels and parties all end up in the same way: everybody gets beat up with bricks.
- Rich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. His lawyer (Laurel) is called in to straighten things out when a blackmail attempt is made. Wild chases through a dance hall and amusement park ensue.
- Laurel and Hardy work at horse stables where a stallion named Blue Boy is kept. When they hear Gainsborough's famous painting, The Blue Boy, has been stolen, the duo rush to collect the offered reward.
- A con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
- In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
- Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
- Stanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling.
- During the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the mother lode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight.
- The boys wreak havoc at a bowling alley in this riotous Chick Chandler/Tom Kennedy comedy featurette.
- Larry, apparently a wealthy young man-about-town, romances Vera, who has developed a new invention, a gas mask, for use in the war. Larry leaves Vera's house unaware that German spies are attempting to steal the plans for her invention. At a restaurant, Larry turns out not to be wealthy, but simply one of the waiters. When Vera and her father arrive at the restaurant, they are shocked to see Larry working there, but even more shocked when the restaurant owner turns out to be the ringleader of the gang of spies. The gang attempts to steal the plans, with only Larry to rescue both the papers and Vera.
- The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.
- When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
- Rose, who works for a penny-pinching junk dealer, dreams of romance with wealthy bachelor Ted Tudor.
- An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.
- A young wife is contacted by a former boyfriend, who informs her that he has a collection of her love letters that he will turn over to her husband unless the woman pays him off. She and her butler hatch a plan to get the letters from the blackmailer before her husband sees them.
- An old man asks a lawyer to find his missing daughter and a grandson (who turns out to be a very extravagant young man). Starring Stan Laurel (in two roles) and his common-law wife Mae Dahlberg (aka Mae Laurel).
- 25 year old Cardew is still at school, run by a large headmaster Who lives and bets off the income that comes from Cardew s uncle will. Of course, the headmaster and the matron don't let Cardew leave school.
- Billy is a hobo who hangs around the train station. He creates disruption in the ticket office, at the lunch counter, and in the lives of some of the customers.
- A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.
- In Victorian London the esteemed Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster.
- A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.
- Cut-rate lawyers Clark and McCullough defend a beautiful divorcee in court, while at the same time competing to be her next husband.
- Nuts in May (1917), re-cut, with added footage and outtakes from _Pest, The (1922)_, combined with newly shot sequences to bridge the scenes.
- Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic.
- A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
- Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
- A feckless young man who wishes to switch from one streetcar to another is told to follow a pretty young lady-- so he follows her all over town.
- A woman locks her daughter up to prevent her from marrying her sweetheart until the sweetheart's father first marries the mother. Step-sibling marriage is the least of the ensuing complications.
- The trials and tribulations of the underappreciated father-of-the-bride are outlined.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- A very large woman, wearing a shift, stands beside a bed and tries to put on a corset. After failing to get it around her, she calls her husband in. He stands behind her holding the corset and reaches around her so she can grasp and begin to tie it in front. He tightens the laces in back. She's done, and he's done in, collapsing onto the bed as she laughs and laughs at him.
- It's 1890. Inventor Ed Martin has long believed and has openly stated that man will someday be able to fly. As such, many people, including the mayor, believe Ed is crazy and want to have him committed. Ed plans to prove them wrong about his mental capacity by winning the upcoming horseless carriage race at the speedway using his 2-cylinder engine machine which he predicts can travel 15mph, twice the speed of other machines. But for Ed to be able to do so, he has to elude the mayor and his gang and get to the speedway in time for the race. And there still is the small matter of whether his prediction will come true, all his other predictions which have not come to fruition... yet.
- A man lives in a tent aboard a raft with his wife and in-laws. What could possibly go wrong?