Norman Brokenshire

Fifty Years Before Your Eyes

A documentary about the major events of the first fifty years of the Twentieth Century.

Ma and the Auto

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.

The Old Prospector Talks

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.

Early in the Mornin'

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's "Spring Song" is the musical theme throughout, and Al Shayne sings an original song based on Guest's poem.

Soviet Russia Through the Eyes of an American

American engineer Charles Stuart travels through Soviet Russia, showing not just the political but the everyday life of the country.

Couldn't Live Without You

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.

Bill and I Went Fishing

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.

After the Storm

Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.

Boyhood

An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.

The Scout Master

A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.

Fly American!

A promotional film extolling the benefits of flying on the young American Airways (later Airlines), showing the different destinations served, and follows a Curtiss Condor's flight from Chicago to New York City.

Melody Makers No. 1: Sammy Fain

The first in a series of shorts highlighting songwriters of the era. This one features Sammy Fain, supported by Evelyn Hoey and The Eton Boys, singing songs he wrote, including "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me", "Was That the Human Thing to Do" and "Let a Smile Be Your Unbrella." Follow-up shorts in the series featured songwriters Benny Davis and Cliff Friend.

Glorifying the American Girl

A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.