Catalogue of the National Film Library of Sixteen Millimeter Motion Pictures (1931)

CLASS 6 — Comedies and Juvenile 57 COURTESY TITLE REEL NO. father. Joseph promises Seppi to send him to a special trade school where he will learn woodcarving. The story theme makes this travelogue especially interesting. 1 Reel. Courtesy of NATIONAL FILM LIBRARY 3536 HUBBY'S QUIET LITTLE GAME Mrs. Thelma Stone wants to take dancing lessons at Billy Foote's Dancing Academy, but her husband objects out of jealousy. She tells Billy to come to the hotel on an evening when she knows her husband will be playing poker. Billy arrives just in time to see Thelma kissing her departing brother goodbye and assumes that the man with the suitcase is Thelma's husband. In the midst of the dancing lesson, there is a knock on the door and Billy takes refuge on the fire escape. He climbs through the window to the room where Stone and two other men are playing poker. Shortly afterward Billy's wife Barbara enters. Billy gives her money to buy herself a hat and she leaves. Bragging about his intrigue with a married woman, Billy shows Stone a picture of Thelma, which he had helped himself to while waiting for her to dress. Stone pulls a gun and just then a cat chases a mouse up his pants leg. He starts shooting. When the excitement subsides, Billy is compelled to dance until he wears a hole in the carpet and can hardly stand. A rollicking comedy crammed full of tenselv amusing situations. 1 Reel. Courtesy of HOLLYWOOD FILM ENTERPRISES 3537 THE LITTLE DEFENDER The King leaves to visit a distant province, entrusting the care of the castle to young Queen Beatrice, and to his faithful assistant, Alfred. His five-year-old son says, "I'll help, too, father." Taking advantage of the King's absence, Duke Craven plans to abduct the Queen, whom he desires. He enlists the aid of a band of robbers. The boy prince organizes a guard consisting of three or four old servants. In the dead of night the robbers, led by Duke Craven, scale the castle walls. The Little Defender awakens, and seeing a robber entering his Mother's chamber, attacks the man with his wooden sword. Cowards at heart, the robbers decide to besiege the Castle. The boy Prince devises a strategem. With his "guard" of old men he steals through the lines of the robbers and gets behind them. The "army" makes a lot of noise, and thinking the King has returned, the robbers become frightened and run away. The Little Defender decides to call it a dav and go to bed. A charming storv. 1 Reel. Courtesy of RODNEY GILLIAM COMPANY 3538 BURGLAR PROOF Dorothy is writing a novel about criminals. To get local color she invites several crooks to have breakfast at her home. Their table manners are atrocious. Jack. Dorothy's boy friend, proposes to her, but she tells Take Your Projector to Conventions