The Lame Shall Sing

Short subject on how fashion is created-- not by the great couturiers, but on the street.

In a large European city the newspaper sellers are setting the latest news. "A Mysterious Theft" and "Buddha's Statue Missing" are some of the headlines. The news is also broadcast on the radio and spreads fast. A masked man enters a lawyer's office. He picks the lock in the desk with a skeleton key and takes out an envelope with the note: "Lord Herbert's Last Will and Testament. To be opened on September 1, 1930 in the presence of my daughter Mary." The layer walks nervously in front of the burgled desk. He brings out a revolver and points it in his head. At this very moment the detective Chante Coq, a Lord Herbert's friend, enters the room. He undertakes to find both thief and the will. The wealthy heiress travels from France to East on the Orient Express. The international criminal carrying the envelope with inheritance papers is also in the train. After series of adventures the will is retrieved.

A drunk adult gets in an argument with a night guard at the night club and ends up regretting his actions after a traumatizing event.

This is the only film about Big Bill Broonzy, you can see him playing the blues in a Brussels cellar.

On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present.

The last thing Meredith needed was to share an Uber with Scrooge, a cocky lawyer, on a snowy Christmas Eve. It was bad enough she was on her way to court for the gift of eviction. Although maybe today wouldn't turn out so bad after all. She and the sexy Scrooge started to connect as they trudged their way through a storm. Soon their ride was about to end. But would the ever see each other again? Based on the short story “ Sexy Scrooge” by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward.

Annie wakes up in the middle of an abandoned quarry without knowing how, or why, has she got there. As she incorporates herself, she begins to understand her complicated situation.

Louis Prima, between song numbers, tells how he happened to get a job in a Hollywood cafe playing music while a couple, unrelated to anything else, play a slot machine in the background. This short was reissued in 1944 and again in 1952. Lucille Ball has a bit part. Song numbers include; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", "Up a Lazy River", "Dinah","Basin Street Blues" and "Johnny Get Your Gun."

Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.

A Screen Song from the Fleischer Studios with the Irving Berlin song "Reaching for the Moon".

James Parrott joins every lodge in town to get in good with people as he tries to sell his fire extinguishers.

A woman obsessed with UFOs comes to terms with her identity after a visitor makes her question her ethnic, cultural, and planetary origins.

A family of 3 siblings deals with the mysterious appearance of a portal in their backyard following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. When Renee decides that the portal is her only means of escaping her surroundings, she will facilitate a paradigm shift that will change their world forever.

15 years have passed and Roberto is still in love with his neighbor, but she prefers to hide ashamed of her body. With his art and an old clothesline as the only way of communication, Roberto has a plan to push his beloved for face her monsters at once.

Sean races against the clock to his mother's deathbed in possession of his mother's dying wish while dealing with inter-family politics over the phone.

Mukunan prepares to become the Shaman of the Potiguara Katu RN village. Older than us, the power plants become the teacher giving environmental care lessons.

In a city where the fast pace swallows up the days, an ordinary worker reflects on the daily battle of crossing a few kilometers to get to work. Between insistent alarm clocks and routine conversations with colleagues, he realizes how his hours are devoured by commuting and how his existence goes unnoticed in the crowd. When he realizes that many share this same reality, he questions what it really means to live in a "Bauru outside of Bauru", where the fight for time and recognition is constant, but invisible.

The Hungry Actors is a 1915 Comedy short.

A highly emotive, visual feast set in the imaginative mind of a heartbroken panda called Herbie, who has recently broken up with his deer girlfriend Rice.

This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she lived with as a child. Kamala was living a life of solitude at this point and has now since passed away—this film is dedicated to her.