is the simple story of a rural teacher in an unnamed southern school trying to reach a problem child. Just when the teacher and child make progress, tragedy strikes: the boy’s sister dies of viral pneumonia. Embittered and rebellious, the boy gets into fights. But when a swarm of bees invades the classroom and panics the students, the boy takes charge, captures the queen bee and leads the swarm outside.
follows a baseball scout in charge of a Florida training camp where aspiring ballplayers annually get a two-week tryout. The aspirants include the son of a Polish immigrant who defies his father to secretly pursue a baseball, rather than a legal, career. The baseball scout’s niece comes down from the home office in New York and is attracted to the quiet ballplayer of Polish ancestry.
is a specialty short film produced and narrated by Pete Smith, a publicist and short subject filmmaker, who earned 14 Academy Award nominations and two “Best Live Action Short Film” Academy Awards. In “Things We Can Do Without,” a fellow named Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and shows pieces of furniture, which while modern are much more trouble than the progress is worth.
is about a bumbling photographer’s assistant who wants to impress a small-time actress by putting her picture on the cover of Look magazine. Exaggerating his journalistic importance, the assistant uses photo shoots as an excuse to spend time with the actress. Eventually exposed as a fraud, the assistant abandons his job, hides in Central Park, then one day sees the actress’ picture on the cover of Look magazine.
