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In this "Broadway Brevity," a soda jerk/songwriter dreams of performing his songs on Broadway.

It's the Depression, and the vaudeville Palace Theater is unable to stay afloat. The proprietor, Mr. Jenkins, begrudgingly lets his 12-year-old son stage a kiddie show that draws in the crowds.

Professor Cicero Pu and his dummy Charlie take a trip in the "Spirit of Ammonia" hot air balloon to the stratosphere. After the balloon goes out of control, they land in an unexpected place.

When a waiter accidentally KOs boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's nightclub, Rosenbloom arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.

A "Broadway Brevity" short from Vitaphone shot in Technicolor that spoofs the Hollywood studio set-up. When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director (Fritz Feld), her understudy (Evelyn Thawl) steps in and "a star is born."

It's the opening night of what has the buzz of being a spectacular new but heavily dramatic play, "Hot Sands". No one will be seated during the first ten minutes after the curtains go up because of the serious, integral nature of the scene. People are scrambling for last-minute tickets, all that is left being the poorer seats, that is before the performance eventually sells out minutes before showtime. Mrs. Walker Pendleton is waiting in front of the theater for her husband, who has their tickets, to arrive. As he is nowhere to be seen, she believes he must have left a ticket for her somewhere. As it gets closer to curtain, she speaks to whoever she can to find her ticket, at the expense of others being able to get theirs or get into the theater. When Mr. Pendleton eventually does arrive, another issue arises which threatens either Mr. or Mrs. Pendleton being able to see the show, and threatens perhaps their marriage as well.

Dave Apollon is a one-man production staff, who runs his movie studio as writer, director, producer, bandleader, art director, and other jobs. A variety of musical acts showcase their talents as he visits several of the studio's sets.

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.

Hal LeRoy is hired as a tap teacher at Dawn O'Day's dancing school to give private lessons to female students. The school's manager, as well as some of his students, spreads false stories that Hal's lessons involve more than just tap dancing. He is fired and starts his own dancing school in the same building as O'Day's. Hal and Dawn now realize that their relationship was more than just business.

Bugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.

Bugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in a Mexican bullring fighting one heck of a big bullying bull.

Buster Bear opens the cartoon by walking up to the would-be Looney Tunes sign, greeting the audience with "Hi ya! Hello everybody!" Before doing a little dance as congratulatory music plays. The feature then opens to a cat driving a large truck that says "The Buster Bear Carnival". The cat rings a bell as dogs and other cats run alongside the truck. A pair of pig twins are chasing the truck, one on a unicycle and one on foot. The one on the unicycle bears a strong resemblance to future Looney Tunes star Piggy, who was created by Rudolph Ising. He reads a newspaper and then tips his hat to the viewer. Buster Bear is waiting for the animals at town hall. He is their sheriff and M.C. for the event. He goes from having a high-pitched voice to a deep one when he bullies a dancing broom and dustpan, then he returns to dancing. Dancing frogs, a dancing cow and a mother bear with three cubs soon follow Buster into the hall for the show. Buster introduces a duck couple who dance, make out and then perform a stunt. With each act he introduces, his pants droop. The next act is of a stork using a newborn pup to play xylophone with his wings, but the crowd disapproves and a hook pulls the stork apart. Various other animals play instruments during and after the segment to keep the crowd entertained. The next act is a horse jumping rope, which the crowd applauds. The final act is a dog blacksmith, hitting a horseshoe on an anvil, but the weight of the dog and the anvil are too much, and they fall through the stage. Delirious, he hits a major pipe, flooding the town hall and the iris closes on all the animals escaping Town Hall. The short ends with Buster wearing heavy eye shadow and saying "I'll be seeing ya!" on a ledge built from the planet Earth as beautiful clouds and stars pass by.

Bugs and Daffy tunnel to Baghdad where they find caves full of treasure and a guard named Hassan who wants only to "chop" them.

Bugs Bunny gets swindled by the Three Little Pigs into buying their houses of straw and wood.

The three bears set a trap to catch Goldilocks but their carrot soup attracts Bugs Bunny early on and he grows wise to their plans.

Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.

Wile E. Coyote set up an elaborate scientific contraption to trap Bugs.

Bugs Bunny finds the Tasmanian Devil in his encyclopedia just as the animal threatens to devour him.

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (as Jack) find themselves at the top of a beanstalk where they get chased around by a giant Elmer Fudd.

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead an orchestra. A deacon, passing by the apartment, hears him singing and advises him go to his wife's gypsy tea room. As she reads the tea leaves, she sees situations which lead to Cab and his orchestra performing musical numbers.

A stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.

Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.

In this entry to the documentary short series, a $5000 contest is revealed for fans. Robert Ripley presents to a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips: a 17-year-old grandmother in Africa, a French woman who left her fortune to buy clothing for snowmen she believed to be dressed immodestly, one of the largest books in the world (a huge Bible), a giant Boston tea pot steaming since 1873, two 119-year-olds in Missouri meeting for the first time before the cameras, truffle-hunting pigs in France, and Fritz the German Shepherd dog who walks on the high wire.

A general paean to the dying art of the blacksmith and more specifically to the skills of George Garfield, blacksmith to the Hollywood stars.

Eleven year old Davy Allen, whose father recently passed making Davy the proverbial man of the house, has formed a bond with an old hound dog named Buck. Davy believes Buck is mistreated by his owner, Mr. Thornycroft, as Buck is sporting a neck wound from his collar, and he starts choking as his chain gets caught in Thornycroft's fence. Davy also believes Buck should be free to do what hound dogs do, which is hunt in the forest. In freeing Buck from what he would consider his shackles, Davy presents Buck as an ownerless stray who followed him home to his mother, who allows Davy to keep him. The question then becomes what will happen when Thornycroft finds out what happened to Buck, Davy, who, in his still child as opposed to adult's view of the world, won't give up Buck without a fight.