Frank Eastman

A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.

"Strange Birds" is a documentary short made by Mack Sennett for Educational Pictures. It's unusual in that they used an early form of color, 'Sennett Color', a two-color process typical of the era (similar to Cinecolor and Two-Color Technicolor). As far as the film goes, it consists of three folks looking at birds at the newly opened California Aviaries Bird Park on Catalina Island.

When the story begins, an airplane flying over Africa runs out of gas and the filmmaker and his team are forced to bail out. Once on the ground, all sorts of hijinks occur...such as a fight with a crocodile and a guy in a gorilla suit.

Marjorie Beebe is a saloon singer, and Frank Eastman is the piano player and her boyfriend. He's got a roving eye, and she's making a play for the boss, who is crazy about her. So they slang each other, and beat on each other, and are very happy in their abusive relationship, which saloon owner Frank Sabini tries to break up, with machine-gun fire if necessary.

Pert Kelton and Tom Dugan star in this 1931 short directed by Mack Sennett, having a little dinner party.