Behind the Screen

A Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.

A man finds a woman on the side of the street and decides to interview her.

Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

Owen is hiking through the countryside when he meets a strange sheep with human features. The story follows them both as Owen takes the sheep-man into his home and they gradually become friends.

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

On her 15th birthday, a young girl learns to navigate the complexities of budding adolescent romance with the guidance of her two best friends.

Pete Smith tells the story of 'Sparky', a German shepherd dog trained to lead his blind master, a country doctor who lost his sight in a fire, and now has to depend upon the dog to lead him in his daily rounds. 'Sparky" was the dog who was responsible for the Interstate Commerce Commission passing a special ruling allowing guide-dogs to travel first-class in Pullman cars to accompany their blind partner, and not as animals confined to the baggage car. Smith shows how 'Sparky' went to Washington D. C. with his master and helped sell the change to the legislators.

A short story about a young ninja.

Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.