The Vitaphone Corporation Movies

Bobby Jones gives a truant salesman some driving tips while his angry boss looks on.

In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.

This entry in the Believe It or Not series finds Mr. Ripley aboard a U.S. naval ship speaking to a group of sailors. The film he shows them includes i...

When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then...

June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believe...

Robert Ripley shows a pretty blond a shrunken head and an iron execution chamber. Vitaphone No. 1336.

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

An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a narra...

Violinist Mischa Elman performs a set of two of the most recognizable popular classic violin pieces: "Humoresque" composed by Antonín Dvorák, and "Gav...

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as s...

The Mound City Blue Blowers and Doris Walker perform popular songs of the day.

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Thin...

The wealthy Mr. Clyde is found dead, shot to death in his home. Inspector Carr suspects a conspiracy between the victim's young wife and her lover, Ca...

In this short, multiple acts perform before an audience in a town hall. Performers include The Aaron Sisters singing trio and the Mound City Blue Blo...

Veteran Broadway performer Adele Rowland sings four songs in this Vitaphone short.

Dave Apollon is a one-man production staff, who puts on a stage show as writer, director, producer, bandleader, art director, and other jobs.

Gus Doakes joins the National Guard; hilarity ensues.

In this comedic short, a man assumes his brother's identity as a doctor to avoid a speeding ticket. Complications ensue when the police officer later...

This musical short focuses on the trials and tribulations of a saloon singer.

Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).