List of short subjects by Hollywood studio
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Columbia

  • Andy Clyde
    Andy Clyde
    Andy Clyde was a Scottish movie and TV actor whose career spanned more than four decades. He broke into silent films in 1925 as a Mack Sennett comic...

     - comedy shorts from 1935 through 1956
  • El Brendel
    El Brendel
    El Brendel was a vaudeville comedian turned movie star, best remembered for his dialect schtick as a Swedish immigrant. His biggest role was as "Single-0" in the sci-fi musical Just Imagine , produced by Fox Film Corporation...

  • Hugh Herbert
    Hugh Herbert
    Hugh Herbert was a motion picture comedian. He began his career in vaudeville, and wrote more than 150 plays and sketches.-Career:...

  • The Three Stooges - 190 shorts subjects between 1934 and 1959
  • Color Rhapsodies
    Color Rhapsodies
    Color Rhapsodies was a series of usually one-shot animated cartoon shorts produced by Charles Mintz for Columbia Pictures. They were launched in 1934, following the phenomenal success of Walt Disney's Technicolor Silly Symphonies...

     - one-reel animated shorts produced from 1934 through 1949

Educational Pictures

  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....

  • Fatty Arbuckle
    Fatty Arbuckle
    Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd...

     - produced shorts for Educational in the early to mid-1930s

MGM

  • Crime Does Not Pay
    Crime Does Not Pay
    Crime Does Not Pay may refer to:* Crime Does Not Pay , a popular American series of comic books published between 1942 and 1955* Crime Does Not Pay , an anthology radio crime drama series from 1935 to 1952...

     - 48 2-reel shorts released between 1937 and 1949
  • The Passing Parade - 1-reel strange-but-true stories produced from 1938 to 1949
  • Pete Smith
    Pete Smith (film producer)
    Pete Smith was a film producer and narrator of "short subject" films from 1931 to 1955....

     Specialties - more than 150 live-action documentary/comedies produced from 1931 to 1955

Paramount

  • Hollywood on Parade
    Hollywood on Parade
    Hollywood on Parade is a series of short subjects released by Paramount Studios.-Production background:One short is frequently misidentified as Curly Howard's first appearance on film, as cited by historians, because it was mistaken for a 1932 short when Criterion Pictures acquired the shorts for...

     - at least 25 12-minute shorts released from 1932 through 1934
  • Paramount Pictorials
  • Popular Science
    Popular Science (film)
    Popular Science was a series of short films, produced by Jerry Fairbanks and released by Paramount Pictures.The Popular Science film series is a Hollywood entertainment production - the only attempt by the movie industry to chronicle the progress of science, industry and popular culture during the...

     - 1935 through 1949

RKO

  • Headliners
  • Mickey McGuire
    Mickey McGuire (film series)
    Mickey McGuire was an American comedy series of short subjects from 1927 to 1934. The series was notable for essentially launching the careers of Mickey Rooney and Billy Barty. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip series, Toonerville Trolley. The series was very popular in its...

     - live-action Our Gang
    Our Gang
    Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

    -style shorts, starring Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney is an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He has won multiple awards, including an Honorary Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award...

     and produced from 1927 through 1934
  • Leon Errol
    Leon Errol
    Leon Errol , was an Australian-born American comedian and actor, popular in the first half of the 20th century.-Biography:...

     - live-action comedy shorts from 1934 through 1951
  • Flicker Flashbacks
  • Information Please
    Information Please
    Information Please was an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938 to April 22, 1951. The title was the contemporary phrase used to request from telephone operators what was then called "information" but is now called "directory assistance".The series...

     - 1940-1943
  • Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Livingston Kennedy was an American comedic film actor, known as "the king of the slow burn". A slow burn is an exasperated facial expression, performed very deliberately; Kennedy embellished this by rubbing his hand over his bald head and across his face, in an attempt to hold his temper...

  • Gil Lamb
  • Pathé News
    Pathe News
    Pathé Newsreels were produced from 1910 until the 1970s, when production of newsreels was in general stopped. Pathé News today is known as British Pathé and its archive of over 90,000 reels is fully digitised and online.-History:...

  • This is America (short subject)
  • Picture People

20th Century Fox

  • The March of Time
    The March of Time
    The March of Time is a radio series, and companion newsreel series, that was broadcast on CBS from 1931 to 1945 and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was created by Time, Inc. executive Roy Edward Larsen, and was produced and written by Louis de Rochemont and his brother Richard de...

     - nearly 200 2- or 3-reel newsreels produced from 1935 to 1951

Warner Brothers

  • Joe McDoakes
    Joe McDoakes
    Joe McDoakes is the protagonist of a series of 63 black and white live action comedy one reel short subjects released between 1942 and 1956. The Joe McDoakes shorts are also known as the Behind the Eight Ball series or the So You Want... series...

     - 63 black and white live-action comedy one reel shorts released between 1942 and 1956
  • Joe Palooka
    Joe Palooka
    Joe Palooka was an American comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist Ham Fisher in 1921. The strip debuted in 1930 and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers....

  • Vitaphone
    Vitaphone
    Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

     - hundreds of short subjects based on Warners' sound-on-disc
    Sound-on-disc
    The term Sound-on-disc refers to a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture...

    process from 1926 through 1930, with the name still associated with later cartoons and other shorts with standard optical soundtracks
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