Movies and TvShows featuring "columbia-featurette" theme.
A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul.
An obnoxious little toddler boy scares and hits a whimpering puppy in his charge until his mother comes in and puts him to bed and scolds him for his cruelty. Asleep, the boy dreams that the puppy has grown to dinosaur size, bursting through walls, chasing down the brat until retribution looks nigh.
A toyless boy finds a broken soldier doll and gets a very special Christmas as a result.
A documentary short featuring various snapshots of Hollywood in the 1930s, including portraits of actors and actresses, scenes from a barbecue and ranch, and footage of tennis players and performers.
Andy's rival has wanted posters printed claiming that Andy's sweetheart is a swindler.
Two crows do not want to work and prepare for winter.
Told in a musical-comedy format, this cartoon is the story of two department store mannequins who fall in love, become engaged and plan to marry. When the other dummies/manikins/mannequins in the store learn this, they arrange surprises for the couple with nearly every piece of merchandise in the store coming to life.
Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.
An immigrant girl hears that if she marries an American citizen she won't be deported, so she goes looking for a husband.
The veritable story of a citizen of San Francisco who, after being destroyed in the 1857 stock market crash, believed himself to be the emperor of the United States. When he died, 10,000 people attended the funeral.
Andy takes his newest invention, a knee-action washing machine, before a group of potential investors, but his idiot stepson proceeds to disrupt the demonstration.
Poking fun at current newsreels, Krazy narrates nonsensical current happenings.
Walter pretends to have been in a car accident in order to avoid two conflicting engagements.
A fish peddler is known to her customers as "The Duchess"; her fiance's father hears this and thinks she is a real duchess.
Tom persuades Monty to buy a house trailer so they can live off the fat of the land.
Andy and the local fire chief fall for the same woman.
A bird couple are deeply in love. Throughout the story the female bird rejects a lecherous salesbird who repeatedly tries to enter their home.
One of the it-takes-a-villageism cartoons with a message in which a happy-and-prosperous village of honeybees goes to the aid of a village of starving grasshoppers, by dropping honey bombs and food to the stricken bug community. Prosperity returns and all the world citizens are happy again. Although, in the real world it was usually the grasshoppers and locusts that caused most of the famine problems to begin with, and didn't leave anything for the bees to make honey from.
A Columbia Scrappy cartoon released March 26, 1937.