The Vitaphone Corporation Movies

This entry in the series criss-crosses America to find various curiosities. Among them are a church in Nebraska made of bales of hay; a duck with four...

A musical short featuring George Stoll, Edythe Flynn and The Hot Four.

Host Harry Rose mixes a "cocktail" of musical acts.

Elsie Janis entertains the troops from the back of a truck. She calls a French soldier up to sing with her, then dances to an American song while ever...

In this early demonstration of the Vitaphone sound system, conductor Herman S. Heller conducts the Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra in the title work. It...

Billy falls asleep and dreams Robert L. Ripley takes him on a tour of Believe-It-or-Not land to see many oddities. Vitaphone No. 1320.

At the police station, four Hollywood cops sing "Skinna-Ma Rink-A-Dink," "Mother Goose Medley," "Cluckin'" and "Waddle."

Mal Hallett and his Orchestra perform three songs with featured dancers

A short film showing off four vaudeville acts from the mid 1930s.

Gags and patter from an armed man at a musicale.

An extremely rare Vitaphone short featuring acrobatic comics William and Joe Mandel.

S.S. Van Dine mystery with police Inspector Carr.

This short shows various curiosities of people and nature across the United States, in the style of the "Believe It or Not" series. Among the dozen su...

Henlere plays piano in the style of various “masters” and other instruments as a one-man band.

An energetic "heavyweight" song and dance troupe of six performs with gusto.

Bernardo De Pace, known as "The Wizard of the Mandolin," plays several tunes, including "Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna" and "That's Why I Love You...

Duval's Fashion House is struggling, Mr. Duval believes in large part because of his playboy son, Jack, not pulling his weight in the business. Instea...

The Duncan Sisters (Rosie and Vivian) and their college dorm mates sing a song to their alma mater while packing up to leave college at the end of sch...