Josef Berne

A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete with singers, dancers, comedians, and impressionists.

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The Delta Rhythem Boys sing while a skeleton lurks in the hallway

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When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

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The Counts and the Countess perform "Five Salted Peanuts".

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Delta Rhythm Boys perform "Snoqualomie Jo Jo".

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Musical short starring Spade Cooley.

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Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang perform "Shame on You".

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Mel Tormé and the Mel-Tones sing the title song in this 1945 Soundie (a short film produced to be played on jukebox-like Panoram machines).

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A group of African American cowboys sing the title track.

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A Soundie with Day, Dawn, and Dusk.

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A Soundie with Danny O'Neil.

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A Soundie with Day, Dawn, and Dusk.

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A Soundie with Vickee Richards and Don De Leo.

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A Soundie with Marvel Maxwell.

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Nat 'King' Cole & Ida James wonders "Who's Been Eating My Porridge?"

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Carol Adams introduces us to a juke box cafe where while she sings she serves couples who are sitting. They eventually raise up to jitterbug while she dances in the middle.

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After witnessing the killing of a professor in concentration camp "Dachau" German student Paul emigrates to the USA. Here an American fellow student endangers Paul's new American existence and his family's which stayed in Germany.

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A Soundie featuring June Richmond with Roy Milton and His Band.

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Tex Williams and Spade Cooley's Western Dance Gang sing "Take Me Back to Tulsa".

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The King Cole Trio and Ida James perform the title song in this Soundie.

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Ozzie Nelson takes us along for a typical day for a bandleader.

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Soundie featuring June Richmond (vocals) and Roy Milton performing "Hey Lawdy Mama."

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Kay Starr singing "Stop That Dancing Up There".

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Soundies short film featuring the Les Paul Trio and Carolyn Grey

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A marshal goes after a bandit gang who is robbing stagecoaches and that, unbeknownst to him, is led by one of his town's prominent citizens.

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A Soundie with Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals.

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A Soundie with Diana Del Rio.

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Bandleader/singer/songwriter Ted Barry arrives to heaven. The receptionist tells him that before he can take his place in the Hall of Music, a committee must review his work and decide whether he is worthy of admittance.

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Soundie with Gael Amber singing and few couples dancing.

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Moonlight Becomes You, Eddy Howard.

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A Soundie featuring Slim Andrews and The Fashionaires with Sybil Rae.

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A burlesque presentation in an antique environment with Faith Bacon in black veils.

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An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.

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A Soundie with Harry Barris and Jean Porter.

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Comedic musical short featuring the Hoosier Hotshots.

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A young girl who has spent her life in the mountains finally journeys to the big city to fulfill her life's dream of becoming a ballerina,. However, she soon discovers that achieving that dream is a lot more difficult than she thought it would be.

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When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a movie being filmed in the Ozarks.

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Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.

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Gypsies sing and dance around the fire while their children dream.

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Weaves a Gothic spell with its account of love and death on an isolated farm, including a startling passage of sunstruck eroticism.

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