Goofy Movies Number Two

Name: Goofy Movies Number Two
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1934-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 10 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Pete Smith, Billy Bletcher, Clara Pontoppidan, Valdemar Psilander

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

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talisencrw@talisencrw

August 15, 2016

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 shown. Decent though very dated, good for a few chuckles, especially of interest to film historians.