The Vitaphone Corporation Movies

This short film provides a glimpse at famous art galleries of Rome, Florence, and the Vatican.

Ripley shows an aged Japanese statesman, a strange fish with legs, the 'Rubaiyat' in a finger ring, how a house of cards is torn up, and a giant typew...

In this Vitaphone Broadway Brevity musical short, Hal and Dawn work at the same vaudeville theater, where he's an usher, she's a chorus girl. When the...

In this Vitaphone Melody Masters short, Red Nichols and his band entertain the viewer with a selection of pop songs.

Veteran vaudevillian regales the audience with highlights from his comedy travel monologue and introduces "His Modern Art Choir," A Russian group he m...

Jack King plays the piano and also asks some questions. Josephine Harmon goes through some songs and quips with vocal harmonizing.

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

Hazel Green & Company play a few songs.

Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of ti...

Sitting in a theater box, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy make comments between the acts of a vaudeville show.

Mal Hallett and his Orchestra perform three songs with featured dancers

Robert Ripley draws and shows movies to train passengers. Vitaphone No. 1346.

This first entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a...

Johnny (Shemp Howard) is promised the chief process server's job if he can serve a summons on Musclebound Pete, a local hood. Like the servers before...

The curtain opens; behind it are two pianos where Charles Bourne and Phil Ellis, billed as the Music Boxes, are seated playing. After a few bars, Blos...

In Robert L. Ripley's absence, Leo Donnelly acts as the guide to the unusual from around the world. A group of people in the Philippines are moving a...

In this musical short, a singing Irishman graduates from a police academy and heads to New York City to join the force.

This entry of the series does not feature Robert Ripley, who is away gathering material on his tours. Leo Donnelly narrates various odds and ends like...

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.

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...