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Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley (September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, a newspaper columnist and an actor. Born : 14th-Sep-1889

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The Reluctant Dragon

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.
Released : 19th-Jun-1941

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How to Watch Football

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.
Released : 7th-Oct-1938

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The Sex Life of the Polyp

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live specimens, he has prepared a series of pictures of his subjects. He explains that the subject is made more complicated by the fact that polyps are able to change their sex from time to time. Then he presents some of the pictures of his specimens and the experiments that he has done with them.
Released : 25th-Jul-1928

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How to Be a Detective

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.
Released : 17th-Oct-1936

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How to Sleep

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest: why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely, and other useful skills for the insomniac.
Released : 14th-Sep-1935

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The Treasurer's Report

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.
Released : 11th-Mar-1928

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How to Start the Day

Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
Released : 11th-Nov-1937

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How to Behave

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert Benchley always has the best advice about any social situation. Hilarity ensues.
Released : 25th-Apr-1936

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How to Eat

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock everyman and slightly bumbling character Joe Doakes to dramatize such situations. Situations that can impede digestion include receiving bad news resulting in stress, being in love, and feeling scared. Snacking or nibbling between meals can ruins one's appetite at meal time. Having the correct posture while eating is important for digestion; finding the right posture can be difficult in certain circumstances, such as being on a picnic or eating in bed (specifically for men when using trays). Sharing tables with staring strangers may also impede digestion. And it's difficult to digest food when one can't get any of it. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)
Released : 10th-Jun-1939

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Important Business

Robert takes a train ride to Washington, DC, on "important business."
Released : 29th-Apr-1944

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My Tomato

Joe Doakes is lamenting to his wife the lack of variety in his meals. In particular, he misses eating stewed tomatoes, the fruit which he believes incorrectly is being rationed as a war measure. Mrs. Doakes knows that tomatoes aren't rationed, but she doesn't correct him, especially after he announces that he will grow enough tomatoes to feed the entire block. As he proceeds with his tomato garden, he, unaware of what it actually takes to grow tomato plants successfully, accepts advice from the many people who are willing to give it. The problem ends up being that much of the advice is conflicting. But at the end of the process, Joe is pleased with the fact of having grown a fruit to maturity - regardless of the actual yield of the garden - until someone else, or something else, has a say in what happens to that fruit. Written by Huggo (Taken from the imdb page)
Released : 4th-Dec-1943

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How to Train a Dog

This comedic short provides a lesson in how NOT to train a dog.
Released : 1st-Jul-1936

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Mental Poise

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.
Released : 10th-Dec-1938

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An Hour for Lunch

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.
Released : 17th-Mar-1939

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The Romance of Digestion

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and digesting food. The on-screen narrator begins with teeth, "little sentinels" as he calls them, and the tongue. Then it's on to the stomach: he describes the stomach's workings as if it were an office or a factory. He uses an illustration of the side view of a human torso, with mouth, esophagus, and stomach visible, saying it's a photograph of a man with a visible digestive tract.
Released : 13th-Mar-1937

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How to Vote

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.
Released : 4th-Sep-1936

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Why Daddy?

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a new show called "Why Daddy?", where a child and an adult compete against each other, with less than stellar results.
Released : 20th-May-1944

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A Night at the Movies

A Night at the Movies is a short film starring Robert Benchley. It was Benchley's greatest success since How to Sleep, and won him a contract for more short films that would be produced in New York. In this comedic short, a man and his wife suffer through a night at the movies. The film was nominated for an Academy Award at the 10th Academy Awards, held in 1937, for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).
Released : 6th-Nov-1937

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See Your Doctor

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man has when he seeks treatment at the doctor's office.
Released : 16th-Dec-1939

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Home Movies

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.
Released : 17th-Feb-1940

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Nothing But Nerves

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to keep him unnerved.
Released : 2nd-Jan-1942

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How to Read

Robert Benchley offers a humorous lecture on how to avoid different types of strain during reading.
Released : 27th-Aug-1938

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That Inferior Feeling

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).
Released : 20th-Jan-1940

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Home Early

A businessman goes home early to surprise his family and is treated with suspicion, mostly by his wife's bridge club.
Released : 26th-May-1939

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Your Technocracy and Mine

Robert Benchley explains Technocracy with visual aids in his classic befuddled manor.
Released : 31st-Mar-1933

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How to Raise a Baby

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.
Released : 1st-Jul-1938

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How to Take a Vacation

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
Released : 9th-Oct-1941

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David O. Selznick: Your New Producer

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.
Released : 1st-Jan-1935

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The Forgotten Man

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.
Released : 22nd-May-1941

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Waiting for Baby

Robert Benchley aims his keen observational skills toward expectant fathers.
Released : 24th-Jan-1941

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Keeping in Shape

Robert Benchley lectures on physical witness in middle age.
Released : 22nd-Jun-1942

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The Courtship of the Newt

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.
Released : 22nd-Jul-1938

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Dark Magic

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.
Released : 12th-May-1939

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An Evening Alone

Robert Benchley's everyman spends an evening home alone.
Released : 13th-May-1938

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How to Sub-Let

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.
Released : 29th-Jan-1939

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Opening Day

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.
Released : 12th-Nov-1938

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The Day of Rest

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.
Released : 5th-Sep-1939

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No News Is Good News

Robert Benchley answers questions ranging from across the political spectrum.
Released : 18th-Dec-1943

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The Trouble with Husbands

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands and shave. Then she sends him to the store for some butter, and he comes back with everything - except butter. Finally, he decides to install a small shelf on the wall - and makes a major production out of it.
Released : 8th-Nov-1940

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Crime Control

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders that have recently been brought in. Shoelaces, for example, have an objectionable habit of breaking at crucial moments. The officer proceeds to call attention to window shades, bedroom slippers, and other menaces. He also answers his critics who advocate reasoning with these objects rather than punishing them.
Released : 11th-Apr-1941

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The Witness

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account of the ways that a government investigative committee has been interrogating its witnesses. Joe then nods off, and imagines that he is being questioned by the committee. He envisages how satisfying it would be to turn the tables on the investigators.
Released : 1st-Jan-1942

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Music Made Simple

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.
Released : 16th-Mar-1938

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The Spellbinder

The Spellbinder is a comedy short.
Released : 13th-Dec-1928

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Furnace Trouble

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
Released : 4th-Feb-1929

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Lesson No. 1

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.
Released : 12th-Feb-1929

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Stewed, Fried and Boiled

Stewed, Fried and Boiled is a 1929 comedy short.
Released : 29th-Mar-1929

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How to Break 90 at Croquet

Robert Benchley shows how to successfully play croquet.
Released : 4th-Jun-1935

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Snafu

A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
Released : 22nd-Nov-1945

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How to Figure Income Tax

A man humorously attempts to give an overview of income taxes.
Released : 1st-Mar-1938

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I Married a Witch

Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
Released : 30th-Oct-1942

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You'll Never Get Rich

A Broadway choreographer gets drafted and coincidentally ends up in the same army base as his object of affection’s boyfriend.
Released : 25th-Sep-1941

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