Goofy Movies Number Two (1934)

02/24/1934Comedy10m
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A satire on movie newsreels combines with humorous narration of silent screen footage in this one reel comedy short.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Pete Smith

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Cast 1

    Billy Bletcher

    Christopher Columbus (uncredited)

  3. Cast 1

    Clara Pontoppidan

    Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)

  4. Cast 1

    Valdemar Psilander

    Man (archive footage) (uncredited)

This was a bizarre but enjoyable extra on my DVD of 'Manhattan Melodrama' from TCM Spotlight's 5-film 'Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection'. It's simply silent cinema footage narrated by Pete Smith to lampoon then-current newsreels. This was the first of these I have seen--apparently ten were made (as listed on IMDb). First, the narrator satirizes Columbus discovering America; second, trailers of coming attractions are spoofed; and finally, 'The Perils of Arsenic Annie', a film by Super-Titanic Pictures, is shown, with the narration having little if anything to do with the scenes being sho...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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