Gordon Hollingshead Movies

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

A behind-the-scenes look at all the responsibilities (and headaches) a director assumes when making a motion picture.

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but...

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

Joe McDoakes and his wife go apartment hunting.

Joe wants to be a muscle man.

This one-reel musical short, part of the WB/Vitaphone Melody Master series, features the music of trumpet-player and orchestra leader Henry Busse and...

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming...

Sheila, a feisty Irish girl, loves Emmett, a somewhat shady Irish boy. When Emmett goes to America, Sheila and her father follow and join him....

The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo perform a ballet to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol.

Sergeant Tex Gordon is surprised to learn that his new gunnery instructor is a woman.

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

Joe McDoakes is invited by his boss to a swanky dance. Joe admits he can't dance and the boss gives him a lesson in the office.

This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the...

In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various...

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Joe McDoakes begins a new job as a vacuum cleaner salesman but can't seem to sell any.

In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest...