Ralph Staub Movies

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

This short shows the entrances of the various Hollywood studios, then specifically visits Warner Bros. / First National Studios. We start at the...

Echo Mountain (1936) is a color musical short where they sing their songs in a mountains setting.

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as...

A sailor bets his friends he can get a date with any woman they choose. They pick out a librarian with glasses and a bookish appearance. When he...

A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.

A visit to Buck Jones's new ranch and his horse, Silver, to James Gleason and his dog, to Charles Ruggles and his kennels; on the set of 'You Can't...

Seeing Hollywood, intimate glimpses of your favorite stars, at home, at work, and at play.

Tina, a singing Gypsy with a band of roving gypsies, is invited by Tom to come over to his mother's estate where a lawn party is in progress. She...

Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben...

It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust,...

Two Americans attempt to make time with the daughter of the British financier of an archaeological expedition to Egypt.

This MGM short provides brief glimpses of over sixty screen actors and actresses, all whom started in silent films.

A man, his wife and his overgrown son visit a penny arcade, where he drops a penny in the moviola and he (and we) watch The Perfectly Formed Woman...

Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrity baseball teams.

The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph...

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with...

Players Aileen Pringle and Grant Withers are seen working on the set of Soldiers and Women at Columbia; Bessie Love and John Miljan are seen at MGM;...

Elmer O'Dare fancies himself an expert circus performer.

An assortment of musical acts parade before the camera; Joy Hodges and Pinky Tomlin sing; The Elderblooms, a group of ladies ranging in age from 63...