Metro Goldwyn Mayer Movies

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble tha...

A behind-the-scenes look at the responsibilities of the cinematographer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929),a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pel...

The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937),an enormous production created as part of the Tex...

This Traveltalk series short takes a trip on the Rhine river, with stops at Cologne, Bonn, and Koblenz.

Located in the United Kingdom, the Principality of Wales, home to 2.5 million people, is filled with rolling mountains, and green valleys. Because of...

This "complete show on one reel" starts with Super-Stupid Picture's "The Heel of a Nation", in which the narrator tells a humorous story while the aud...

Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Frances White, The Ponce Sisters, The Reynold Sisters, Joseph Regan, and Jack Pepper.

This short was released as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 30th anniversary. The M-G-M Symphony Orchestra, led by Johnny Green, plays a medley of eleven...

Nancy Bernard, the 1966 Maid of Cotton, is shown walking through various sets and sound stages at the MGM Studios. Her various cotton outfits are desc...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short explores the origins of various customs such as shaking hands, kissing, and why ships are christened.

This Pete Smith Specialty shows water-safety and life-saving techniques taught by the American Red Cross to advanced swimmers.

Legends associated with the lost treasures of Incan gold, thought to be located at the bottom of one of the many shafts of what is called the hawk's n...

Benny Rubin performs vaudeville routines between singing and dancing acts.

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to fin...

Another FitzPatrick TravelTalk, taking us to the titular islands.

Struggling young doctor in a rural community, Dr. Lawrence Tibbits, cures Norma, a circus elephant, when she is injured in a fire. The circus moves on...

Johnny Green conducts the MGM Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien".

This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.

Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.