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- Was your tom by any chance a baby skunk?
- This historic first TV broadcast was seen by only a few hundred people who had access to the new television. It is a variety show of sorts, similar to the show preceding the feature film in cinemas of the 1930s. There are newsreel items, including Haile Selassie of Ethiopia pleading before the League of Nations for aid to repel the invading Italian forces of Mussolini. There are entertainment segments to appeal to women, such as the female dancers performing a water lily dance on the lawn outdoors (no high-kicking Rockettes) as well as a fashion show indoors of the latest in fashions (short ermine coats are in, as are hostess gowns). There is the obligatory lineup of important white males who are overseeing this "advancement in education and entertainment", and there are comic bits as well, none funnier than the solemn moderators trying to sound as suave as the radio professionals.
- Johnny Williams (Johnny Mack Brown) returns to his home town of Beaufort, and finds himself being chased by banker Henry Stevens (Tristram Coffin), Grangers Association head Les Travers (Ed Cassidy as Edward Cassidy) and real estate agent Frank Wilkins (Ted Adams). At the Williams ranch, cowhand Rusty Peters (Raymond Hatton) explains that Johnny's uncle, ostensibly killed in an accident, is believed by the townspeople to have embezzled money from the local bank that is holding mortgages that now must be foreclosed. Neighboring rancher Tom Lansing (Steve Darrell) offers to help Johnny clear himself from the accusation that he received the stolen money. At the scene of the "accident" in which his uncle died, Johnny finds new evidence and is shot at by Duke (Eddie Parker as Edwin Parker), henchman of the man secretly trying to grab up the land by taking over the mortgages. Joan Travers (Christine McIntyre) is antagonistic toward Johhny when her fiance Stephens goes to jail for the embezzlement to trick the real culprit to relax his guard, so Johnny and Sheriff Burt Wheeler (Pierce Lyden) can bring him to justice. After the sheriff and several others are killed, another real estate agent (Edward Peil as Edward J. Peil) confesses that Lansing is the brains behind the land-grab and murders.
- Julius (Jimmy Finlayson) loses his wife to Rudy (Tyler Brooke) because he's too busy going on hunting trips. But when she arranges to meet with a fortune teller, Julius hatches a plan to win her back.
- Cerrie Burnell presents a history of disabled people's struggle for human rights in Britain. She also shares inspiring stories of pioneering campaigners for social change, and looks at the challenges still to be faced in the future.
- Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst looks at eight pageant scenes from popular TV shows and movies and rates them based on realism. Do pageant entrants use the same beauty tricks and shortcuts as Sandra Bullock in "Miss Congeniality" (2000)? Is judging as transparent as we see in "Parks and Recreation" (2009)? And do contestants fight backstage, as in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (1999)? Kryst also comments on "Dumplin'" (2018), "Queen America" (2018), "Misbehaviour" (2020), "Beautiful" (2000), and "Tall Girl" (2019).
- Max Fleischer's second animation experiment was an attempt to bring a well known comedy actor into the animated world: Charlie Chaplin. Distributor Pathe wanted no legal problems with the star and rejected the film.
- Pathe asked Max to come up with his own cartoon star. Brother Dave dressed in a clown outfit and Max asked him to 'clown around'. Max then rotoscoped his brother into animation and Pathe liked it, putting in an order for clown cartoons.
- This animated cartoon, which is the second of the Goldberg series, tells the story of a forty-seven-year-old maiden who would have been more popular if all men were nearsighted. The maid is described as Miss Ophelia Fade-Out, whose face has frightened all the children in the neighborhood, but who, nevertheless, still hopes to "chloroform some poor simp into matrimony." She gives orders to the janitor to hold a sack under the sidewalk and "wait for my future husband to drop into it." Then she rigs up a contrivance with the manhole whereby the unwary will drop through and be bagged. But the men who pass are watched over by a special Providence and she is at last forced to the extremity of taking a tailor's dummy to the justice of the peace.