Tsirk Circus (1936) Grigori Aleksandrov, Isidor Simkov, Lyubov Orlova, Evgeniya Melnikova, Vladimir Volodin, Comedy, Musical

This set collects a wide variety of Vitaphone shorts, from vaudevillians at the height of their popularity, to big bands, to singers, to dramas and comedies there's something for everyone here. There are a lot of surprising films here, with just about every one offering something special.

Stand Up the Musical is a one hour stand up special by Aadar Malik. The special is about music including stories of his life which are humorous and also funny.

In this true-crime bad taste comedy singalong, Mother-from-hell Karen Matthews revels in her newfound fame, while everyone else searches for her missing daughter, little Shannon Matthews, aged 9.

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promise an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier.

Nikki Martin, a parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love leaving her arranged husband to be at the alter. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean and his band the 'McLean Wildcats'. Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The steward finds her hiding in Windy and the Wilcats room. She is locked up by authorities and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wilcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses……

"Musical of totalitarian age" is sub-title of movie SMOKE, in which Thomas Vorel emanated from his second famous classroom film IING. (1985), he him self however confess of many changes. As a matter of fact only axis of the story stayed: young engineer arrives on his first place of work with intention to labour, which shows as a shocking excess in bizarre attitude of the last era of totalitarian convulsions. Mirek´s uncommonly normal bearings adduces movement of "local" history, and social evil (impersonated in incompetent bosses) is precipitated by rightly indignant awaken crowd. Picture has poetics typical of mentioned times: inosculating serious with unvalued, irony with admiration, reality with bizarrerie, matter with absurdity.

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve…