Will Jason

A man recovers on his death bed after his wife makes a mysterious pact with a strange woman. But is he really alive?

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her handicap. But with Rusty's help, the girl gains a new lease on life and agrees to adopt a seeing-eye dog.

This Pete Smith Specialty short takes a humorous look at the inconsiderate pests whose annoying habits make enjoying a movie impossible.

A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.

A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant.

Bickering brothers Phil and Freddie Russo unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.

The growth of small town juvenile crime starts a movement for the building of a youth center. The project leaders discuss with the mayor about buying an old warehouse and rebuilding it as the Center. However, the mayor has other plans. Freddie, Dodie, Lee, Betty, Roy and Monogram's other non-delinquent juveniles, now attending junior college, think otherwise.

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she doesn't correct him, especially after he announces that he will grow enough tomatoes to feed the entire block. As he proceeds with his tomato garden, he, unaware of what it actually takes to grow tomato plants successfully, accepts advice from the many people who are willing to give it. The problem ends up being that much of the advice is conflicting. But at the end of the process, Joe is pleased with the fact of having grown a fruit to maturity - regardless of the actual yield of the garden - until someone else, or something else, has a say in what happens to that fruit.

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.

An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.

A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.

The story of Abraham Lincoln's 30-year struggle of persistence-through-failure is told to an unemployed 50 year old man.

Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood about Kazan, the wolfdog.

Disparate twin brothers find themselves involved in romantic mayhem when their respective girl friends get them confused in this musical comedy.

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.

All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with important life decisions and their consequences.

National DJs help a promoter make an unknown girl a star, to prove the power of radio over TV.

Story of a war veteran, who is persuaded by a machine politico to run for alderman. He finds that disreputable politicians are using his war record to push through some shady legislation, so he renounces these hacks.

Mandrake and Lothar battle enemy agents who have kidnapped the beautiful Princess Narda to force the magician to assist them locate a counter-intelligence agent who possess vital information.

A photographer is murdered just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's whisked around the campus by an ex-con night watchman. However, he is not the killer, and Freddie, Betty, Dodie, and Lee set out to find the culprit, who managed to put a big damper on the big dance.

A photographer is murdered just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it's whisked around the campus by an ex-con night watchman. However, he is not the killer, and Freddie, Betty, Dodie, and Lee set out to find the culprit, who managed to put a big damper on the big dance.

A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. Meanwhile, the Teen-Agers are rehearsing a show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Through a series of romantic entanglements, will they be able to put on the big show?

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. Meanwhile, the Teen-Agers are rehearsing a show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Through a series of romantic entanglements, will they be able to put on the big show?

This short film is a humorous look at basic first aid techniques for mishaps that often occur around the house.

Bickering brothers Phil and Freddie Russo unwittingly wind up working together on the same musical production.

Two privates on a 36 hour pass meet two dance hall dames, complications ensue!

A short film where viewers are given 10 or 15 seconds to answer questions about the United States and its involvement in World War II.

A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receives attention, especially from Ann, the warden's daughter who leads the prison glee club.

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 nest above the city of Cusco, Peru are presented. These stories begin in 1531 with the arrival of explorer Francisco Pizarro, under the direction of King Charles V of Spain, Pizarro who is in search of the gold associated with the legendary El Dorado. Pizarro holds captive the Emperor of the Incas, Atahualpa, to discover the location of the gold. Atahualpa, in turn, promises a cave full of gold for his release. Receiving some gold, Pizarro, not trusting Atahualpa, murders him without ever finding the location of the gold, thought to be twenty thousand shiploads full, worth, in today dollars, in the billions. Legend now has it that the Incas have placed a curse on the gold to avenge Atahualpa's murder, the several attempts by outsiders to locate it leading to tragedy. Coincidence or curse?

A boogie-woogie piano introduces what purports to be a jitterbug lesson, starring prize winner Arthur Walsh, his partner, and then later various other couples. We start with steps imported from other dances, like the waltz, then sped up. Next Walsh and his partner show some basic steps, but the movements are too swift for the narrator to describe them or the viewer to learn how to do them. By the end, various couples (all but a pair of briefly-seen children are white), including some comic ones, give a high-speed demonstration as the music rocks and swings. These are hep cats. Pete Smith's narration is full of slang.

Demonstrates how accidents happen when proper safety devices are neglected.

Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business. Several country-western stars come to his rescue by agreeing to appear on a TV special to be broadcast from his club.

The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.

The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.

Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger.

The growth of small town juvenile crime starts a movement for the building of a youth center. The project leaders discuss with the mayor about buying an old warehouse and rebuilding it as the Center. However, the mayor has other plans. Freddie, Dodie, Lee, Betty, Roy and Monogram's other non-delinquent juveniles, now attending junior college, think otherwise.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a new father experiences the trials and tribulations of fatherhood.

This humorous short film shows how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.

During World War Two, an American band leader, Jack (Dave O'Brien) arrives on a Tahitian island , and via a chain of unexpected events, soon finds himself soon about to be betrothed to Luana (Jinx Falkenburg), the princess of a local tribe.

This Pete Smith Specialty showcases a group called the Water Bugs. Its members devise new ways to experience thrills on the waters of California lakes. Included in this film are paddle boats with outboard motors, two people using a single pair of water skis, and a water skier towed by a low-flying airplane.

This short film presents three legends of hidden gold in California's Death Valley.

A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the store and the store's snooty ski instructor. The Dandridge Sisters (Dorothy, Vivian and non-sister Etta Jones) perform two numbers.

In this short, the janitor of a Paris museum's Egyptology department agrees to help a girl hide from the police.

In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.

An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.

A Marine Sergeant wounded in overseas combat service requires an operation, and the Navy psychiatrist recommends that 'Sarge' be given a few weeks' rest before hospitalization. Through the Dean of San Juan Junior College, Sarge enters the school on a temporary basis. Meanwhile, the Teen-Agers are rehearsing a show and Freddie is worried because they have no band. Through a series of romantic entanglements, will they be able to put on the big show?

1938 short film starring Prudence Penny.

A few different methods that are supposed to help with memorization are presented

Wartime housekeeping tips by a home-economics pro who comes to the aid of a bumbling, vertically challenged husband and his statuesque bride.

Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle with Carson Robison and His Buckaroos.

The trials and tribulations of a husband as his pregnant wife gets closer to the delivery date.

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.