Goofy Movies Number Two
1934
Comedy
A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.
US | en | United States of America
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
10 min.
Released
Release: 2/24/1934
Pete SmithNarrator (voice)
Billy BletcherChristopher Columbus (uncredited)
Clara PontoppidanWoman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Valdemar PsilanderMan (archive footage) (uncredited)
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talisencrw
8/15/2016
This was a bizarre but enjoyable extra on my DVD of 'Manhattan Melodrama' from TCM Spotlight's 5-film 'Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection'. It's simply silent cinema footage narrated by Pete Smith to lampoon then-current newsreels. This was the first of these I have seen--apparently ten were made (as listed on IMDb). First, the narrator satirizes Columbus discovering America; second, trailers of coming attractions are spoofed; and finally, 'The Perils of Arsenic Annie', a film by Super-Titanic Pictures, is shown, with the narration having little if anything to do with the scenes being shown. Decent though very dated, good for a few chuckles, especially of interest to film historians.
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