Laughing Gravy is a comedy short film from 1930 that follows the misadventures of a dog named Laughing Gravy. The film features humorous scenes of rooftop antics, covered-with-soot mishaps, and the pouring of a bucket of water on someone's head. The story revolves around Laughing Gravy's encounters with a strict landlord, snowstorms, flowerpots, barking, and being hit with a brick. As the plot unfolds, Laughing Gravy ends up climbing up a chimney, getting stuck in a rain barrel, and dealing with a smallpox quarantine. The film also touches on themes of inheritance, suicide, and the struggles of pet ownership. With its black-and-white cinematography, Laughing Gravy showcases the comedic duo's talent and delivers a series of slapstick gags and hilarious moments.
Nora, the waif, is forced to attend school. She warms to her teacher for the way that he defends her against the taunts of some of the students, but when she's made to wear a dunce cap, she flees the schoolhouse in shame. Unsupervised by her alcoholic father, Nora becomes a determined truant, wandering the town during school hours. There she catches the attention of a huckster, who convinces her that they will run away and be married. The schoolmaster, meanwhile, preoccupied by Nora's absence, leaves his other students to go find her. He encounters her at a crossroads, being spirited away by the huckster, and calls the man's bluff by saying that he'll find them a minister.
7-year old Ida has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. The second of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
In Foolin' Around, a young student finds himself in a romantic entanglement when he falls head over heels for a girl who belongs to a wealthy family. As their relationship unfolds, they navigate the complexities of their different social backgrounds and deal with the challenges that come with it.
Olive sends Popeye a puppy, Eugene the Jeep, for his birthday, but despite Popeye's best efforts to make it sleep outside, it keeps finding its way back into the house. A rare spinach-free Popeye.
Mr. and Mrs. Newlywed have an awful "first quarrel" and Mrs. Newlywed refuses to kiss her husband goodbye in the morning. With this in mind, Newlywed consents to accompany his friend George and two stunning girlies on an auto trip. They pass Mrs. Newlywed, who recognizes her husband, and his trip is spoiled, while she goes home in aggrieved surprise. George tells him he must have a double. Accordingly, next day at the office Newlywed talks into his dictaphone and connects it with the telephone, then, leaving instructions with the office boy, calls up his wife and tells her he will be kept late at the office. He and George then go home and his friend introduces
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