Leo Donnelly Trailers
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Total trailers found: 16
11 August 1934
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
22 June 1930
An office with two stuffy guys of the music business, one of them Mac who says to "keep that dame away," when Trixie Brown has come by to sing for them, and he thinks she's awful.
16 April 1932
Robert Ripley presents a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips showing the world's youngest parents and the largest bible.
14 May 1932
This omnibus of film clips include a Savanna golf course made from Civil War trenches, wooden Indians used ourside cigar stores, an American Indian artist from South Dakota who paints upside down, the smallest residence house, a Bronx River statue with mysterious Civil War origins, the Ocean Grove community in New Jersey that closes on Sundays and a futuristic automated parking garage.
27 March 1934
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 (1910), and another penny to watch The Song of the Wildwood Flutes (1910).
08 February 1933
They show clips of Mayor Robert van Wyck and the Jeffries-Fitzsimmons fight and point out how unimportant they were in the 1930s.
30 April 1932
In this short film, Robert L. Ripley introduces narrator Leo Donnelly who presents various "Believe It or Not" oddities from around the world as gathered by Ripley.
23 August 1932
This short humorously recreates the experience of going to a nickelodeon during the silent film era, using footage of silent films and sarcastic narration.
17 February 1930
Pressed into service, an inept comedian offers a burlesque on Helen Morgan.
08 June 1930
'Blind Bob' has written a song and the folks at the music publishing company think that Joe Frisco, his old friend from the Bowery is just right for it.
09 July 1932
In Robert L. Ripley's absence, Leo Donnelly acts as the guide to the unusual from around the world. A group of people in the Philippines are moving a house, foundation and all, six miles, by carrying it on their backs.
11 June 1932
This entry of the series does not feature Robert Ripley, who is away gathering material on his tours.
14 November 1932
"This Nude World" is a groundbreaking 1932 "documentary" celebrating the age-old tradition of playing volleyball in you socks.
11 March 1932
Leo Donnelly in the role of a Broadway columnist who interviews stars, celebrities and wannabees and not-yetbees of the era, supposedly to set the record straight.
15 February 1930
Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too brutal and cynical even for pre-Code Hollywood.
01 May 1932
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.