A Short Break

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.

Being stood up can be kind of romantic.

On the eve of their high school graduation, two girls make a pact to lose their virginity before the night is through.

You brought your date to your mother's house? Not a good idea if your mother is as sweet as Candy.

One man's fight against himself spirals recklessly out of control.

A young man, who just graduated from university, just started to work on his first job at an office. Although this is the moment he worked and studied for really hard, not long after a very unsatisfied feeling about his life starts to pop up. This feeling is visualized by a strange looking man who, from one day to another, starts to hit the young man randomly on his head with a newspaper. When the strange man proofs not to be easily get rid of, absurd situations follow that eventually drive the young man to revise choices that he made earlier in his life.

Two strangers living in New York. One Halloween they discover that, in a city of 8 million people, you might just bump into the one person looking for.

Porky sets sail for the Boola-Boola islands in the South Seas with a ship full of general merchandise and plans to open a 5 & 10 cent store. But a swordfish cuts a hole in the ship and Porky's goods fall into the ocean, where the fish make creative uses of them, ultimately opening a Hollywood nightclub, complete with fish impersonating various stars.

Elissa Landi and Charley Chase host an East Asian themed garden tea party in Hollywood. After introducing a few Hollywood luminaries who are attending the party, they present a number of musical and/or dance performances to entertain the crowd. This set of performances also includes ethnic Chinese actress Anna May Wong modeling some fashions she brought back from her first ever trip to China. Through it all, one of the guests, already inebriated, is having a few problems mixing and serving the cocktails he wants.

Appetite: Two women on a romantic date playfully express their love for one another. The date quickly takes a turn when they become frustrated that words cannot fully express their feelings. A lighthearted back and forth escalates into a passionate brawl. Ending with hickeys, bruises, and a good dose of public embarrassment love proves to be a battlefield.

A 10 year old boy uses his hyperactive, action-figure, water gun slinging imagination to cope with his parents' divorce.

Secret Blackheart is a darkly funny short film about a young woman devastated by a bad break-up, who manages to pull out of her depression after a bizarre encounter brought on by her best friend's obsession with the self-help phenomenon 'The Secret'.

A "normal" bug, in a black and white world , becomes purple because of a horrible accident, a turn of events that cost it all of its friends since they don't approve its new color.

Alfie tells the story of a unique character who is trying his best to overcome his own demons. Through therapy, Alfie's issues are slung to the forefront of discovery and he does his best to keep them at bay; but it is a hard line to walk.

An absurdest short film set in the roaring twenties that chronicles two brothers who are obsessed with stealing Marcel Duchamp's shovel back from their arch nemesis, a greedy, drunk, fat, perverted aristocrat.

A down and out writer , struggling with a case of writer's block, must face his greatest nemesis - his own typewriter.

Catastrophe is the fruit of boredom when a man with too much time on his hands becomes involved in an unexpected surprise.

A short comedy.

The tale of a murderer (Allen) who uses the cover of Halloween night to causally transport his latest victim from the scene of the crime to his final resting place. Wrapping the body in tarpaulin and dragging it through the busy streets of London as a bloody Halloween prop, all goes to plan until an old school mate (Brassington) recognises the murderer and drags him along to a swanky Halloween party nearby, where a chance meeting with a beautiful girl (Tointon) takes his evening on an even bigger turn for the bizarre!