Turner Classic Movies shows a lot of short subjects from the Golden Age of Hollywood, but they don't draw much attention to them. They do not list the film's titles on the on-screen ID cards for the next 3 film's that run directly after the end of a film most of the time, IIRC (Though they do list them on the online guide - with minimal or no commentary about them, though.). They're - interesting. Not necessarily all classics! Perhaps they're, with their lower- budget status, an interesting piece of what the 30s/40s mass audience was thought to like. TCM generally does not show the most generally remembered and wide-appeal categories of Golden Age shorts, cartoons, two-reeled slapstick star's comedies, and newsreels!
I find them very interesting. The stop motion one of the guy driving without a car is one of my favorites. I saw one a couple months ago of Errol Flynn and his crew sailing the Caribbean doing some ecological studies. jerol
They showed a creaky one a few weeks back with Rose Marie (from "The Dick Van Dyke Show") when she was a child singing some songs- the also had a film with a very young George Burns and Gracie Allen which was fascinating to watch.
That sounds like Stop, Look and Listen from 1967. I really enjoy all those old MGM Technicolor James Fitzpatrick Traveltalks.
...My 1924-born father said that young people at movie theaters during the Golden Age would pick the travelogues as the space to take a bathroom/popcorn break!
They often show industrial/educational shorts from the '50s/'60s in the early morning hours on Saturdays, those are a hoot. There was one with Kevin Tighe as a heroin addict they show occasionally.
Has anyone seen the interview ones or the ones where the children of the celebrities narrate the shorts about the life of that particular celebrity?
That's right. The studio went back into their archives with clips from several classic films. They also showed various shorts, the inner workings of the studio and scenes from upcoming films with interviews with the stars. It was hosted by George Murphy, then Walter Pidgeon and ocassionally other actors. One episode was entirely devoted to a biography of Greta Garbo. The show aired for one season, with 36 episodes during 1955-56.