Ralph Staub Movies

A tour of Hollywood, featuring such star frequented spots as the Vendome, the Lakeside Golf Club, the West Side Tennis Club, the Santa Anita...

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust,...

During the Great Depression, vaudeville has fallen on hard times. The Palace Theater may have to close its doors, unless the proprietor, William...

Ben Blue has "the largest vein in the country," but not the kind that the gold prospectors in Alaska think he's got!

Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with...

A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.

A man, his wife and his overgrown son visit a penny arcade, where he drops a penny in the moviola and he (and we) watch The Perfectly Formed Woman...

Echo Mountain (1936) is a color musical short where they sing their songs in a mountains setting.

An assortment of musical acts parade before the camera; Joy Hodges and Pinky Tomlin sing; The Elderblooms, a group of ladies ranging in age from 63...

Eddie Lambert leads the tour; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Crawford return from their honeymoon trip; Carl Laemmle, Jr. welcomes Paul Whiteman to...

The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph...

Ralph Staub visits Hollywood's annual "Out of This World" charity-baseball game between two celebrity baseball teams.

Hollywood is a town that holds many memories of the movie business and the movies themselves, which has resulted in a town brimming with...

Ralph Staub zooms his Screen Snapshots camera in on many of the most famous newspaper comic-strip cartoonists and creators of the era. Notable in...

Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone...

Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben...

This entry of Screen Snapshots travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, and Ralph Staub visits and talks to many Hollywood notables as they arrive at the famed...

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot;...

In this Columbia entry of the Screen Snapshots series (production number 5855), Ken Murray takes band-leader Spike Jones and his family (wife and...