Ralph Staub Movies

A man, his wife and his overgrown son visit a penny arcade, where he drops a penny in the moviola and he (and we) watch The Perfectly Formed Woman...

A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to...

A 1934 Warner Brothers Vitaphone short, "Corn on the Cop." In this one, two hobos launch a get-rich scheme by trying to sell axle grease marketed as...

This MGM short provides brief glimpses of over sixty screen actors and actresses, all whom started in silent films.

A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made.

Seeing Hollywood, intimate glimpses of your favorite stars, at home, at work, and at play.

During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William...

The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph...

Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrity baseball teams.

Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!

It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust,...

Eddie Lambert leads the tour; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Crawford return from their honeymoon trip; Carl Laemmle, Jr. welcomes Paul Whiteman to...

Ralph Staub zooms his Screen Snapshots camera in on many of the most famous newspaper comic-strip cartoonists and creators of the era. Notable in...

An assortment of musical acts parade before the camera; Joy Hodges and Pinky Tomlin sing; The Elderblooms, a group of ladies ranging in age from 63...

In this Columbia entry of the Screen Snapshots series (production number 5855), Ken Murray takes band-leader Spike Jones and his family (wife and...

Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben...

Hollywood is a town that holds many memories of the movie business and the movies themselves, which has resulted in a town brimming with...

Players Aileen Pringle and Grant Withers are seen working on the set of Soldiers and Women at Columbia; Bessie Love and John Miljan are seen at MGM;...

Buster Keaton plays in a celebrity baseball game.

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot;...