The opening Nothing Ever Happens, a 1933 Vitaphone short parody of Grand Hotel. Fans of the Oscar-winning feature will enjoy the riffs on the leading performers (e.g., Greta Garbo) and their character's name (e.g., Joan Crawford's Flaemmchen is Jane Gale's Scramchen).

Night Court, an experimental Vitaphone short from 1927. Notice that the flubs stay in because they were recorded on disc and impossible to edit. Presented here as the first sound film of William Demarest, Mr. Kockenlocker of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Uncle Charlie of My Three Sons.

18 Titles and Counting. The Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social keeps growing, with the publication of Makeshift by Sarah Campion, a long-forgotten novel about one Jewish woman's coming of age and exodus from Nazi Germany, coming on 28 November.

Warren William is usually held up as everyone's favorite Pre-Code bad guy, but when he had a chance, he could be superb at comedy as well. From Goodbye Again (1933), attempting to fend off a suspicious husband (Hugh Herbert).

A bit of Patsy Kelly-Thelma Todd comedy, from their 1935 short, Top Flat.

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