Educational Films Corporation of America

A Terrytoons cartoon released 2 April 1937.

Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.

Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.

Joe Cook (Joe Cook) is a gymnasium owner and boxing promoter who is working to build up prizefighter George the Greek (George Givot) as the next Great White Hope that will defeat world-heavyweight-champion Joe Louis (who, obviously, isn't in the film). But Joe also has problems with a finance company and an indictment for income-tax evasion.

A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

Daisy is visiting her sailor boyfriend Glenn aboard a submarine when it leaves port. Fearful of what may happen if an officer discovers a woman on board, she is hidden in a big chest.

Sylvia Froos is working as a singing song-plugger and is about to get fired because no sales result after she has sung a song. But another singer, who has been trying to get her to team up with him, intercedes and starts vocalizing a duet with her. A crowd gathers, sales result, and there is a happy singing finale number.

Ernest Truex is a lawyer feuding for no clear reason with the lawyer across the hall. Truex gets a woman seeking a divorce; the lawyer across the hall gets the husband. Each must produce evidence of infidelity, which they do .... of their clients.

Tom Howard has married a widow. She keeps comparing him to her first husband, to Howard's cost. To make himself seem nobler, he has pal George Shelton burgle the place. However, another burglar is also trying to break in, to general confusion.

A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 19 February 1937.

The film is set in Mexico. General Pancho is some sort of despot...sort of a Pancho Villa-type. When he arrives in town, some folks are scared...but a local vixen is excited as she thinks violent thugs are hot. Soon after Pancho arrives and shoots a man in the butt for no apparent reason, two singers/dancers, Dolittle and Rosebud, arrive. Rosebud is a hot woman...and General Pancho spends the rest of the time trying to woo her as Dolittle woos the vixen.

Billy Dooley is a suspicious husband who, as a private detective, takes a job from a woman who thinks her husband is running around with another woman. The latter is actually Billy's wife, who is buying a car from the man as a present for Billy. But Billy doesn't know that.

Based on the comic strip Happy Hooligan, this cartoon was packaged with the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and shown before the main features in theaters.

When the owner of a department store is about to go on vacation, he tells his children that any idiot could run the store. So they put Joe Cook in charge.

This Educational Comedies one-reeler is all about Walter Catlett in his obnoxious mode as he somehow imposes himself completely on Al St. John and Dorothy Granger as they go on their honeymoon. Dorothy never seems to notice anything odd about this situation -- which renders it all the funnier -- while Al St. John builds up quite a head of steam in what amounts to a ten-minute slow burn, worthy of Edgar Kennedy at his best.

Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, but his father has decided to buy him a dog instead, mainly because he himself wants to have a dog that he can take hunting. After a dispute with his father, Sonny leaves home. As he walks along a railroad track, he finds a frightened lost dog, and soon he begins to feel differently about dogs.

At a Union-Army Civil War prisoner-of-war camp, a group of Union soldiers and their Confederate prisoners engage in a singing contest, each trying to outdo the previous offering.

Orval Whitledge is trying to get a life insurance policy, and the doctor for the insurance company is coming over to examine him; if he is in perfect health, there's the policy. On the other hand, plaster from the ceiling fell on his head, and if they can convince the apartment owner's insurance doctor he's going to die, he and wife Clara Barry can collect $300. Can they keep them straight?

When Tim Ryan's leading lady walks out in a small hillbilly town, the leading lady he selects -- at gunpoint -- is dumb bell Irene Ryan.