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Young people play on a beach. A woman holds an infant. Man and woman pose with two young girls outside in a backyard. A couple, wearing dress clothes, stand in a backyard, fixing each other's attire, talking, posing for the camera. Two couples sit on a porch with a dog, laughing and talking. Couple stands by a stream. Man feeds an infant with a bottle. Children, wearing cowboy hats and gun holsters with toy guns, play in a backyard.

A puppy and a grown dog play in a backyard while it is snowing. A young boy makes snowballs and a snowman during a snowfall. Children go sledding. House and an orchard covered in snow. Large herd of deer on a hillside.

Children riding bicycles, playing in a yard, riding on a tractor, feeding chickens, preparing and having a birthday party. Attending a fair with stockyards, horse races, and rides.

Washingtonian newspaper cover: "Grizzlies Tackle Bobcats Today." Footage of a football game. Thanksgiving dinner. Children rollerskating and performing gymnastics. Preparing for and celebrating Christmas.

Adults and children packing a station wagon. Children playing on a snowy slope, and in the water. Children digging holes in the beach during low tide. Children playing on a swingset, swimming in the water, building a raft, visiting Westport Dock, farming, and playing with a dog.

Family on a sheep farm,and dyeing Easter eggs. Children in western costumes dancing. Adults in novelty glasses mugging for the camera. Children with Easter baskets, and all wearing nice clothes.

People leaving an establishment called "Thunderbird," and getting into a car.

A costumed Halloween party for children. A Christmas parade. Children with a white horse. Children at a beach and a harbor. Ducks along the water.

Ice skating. Children and adults playing with a litter of puppies.

Adults and children ice skating.

Children and adults playing in water, and visiting a rural setting. Views of a helicopter, from below. Children going to school. Men holding ducks after a hunt. A costumed Halloween party. Fishing a raging river.

Ice skating. Children in international dress. A large parade from above. An event with international dress and dancing. Swimming in a public pool. Shoeing a horse. Views of an airport. A funeral for a salamander.

Children playing in a body of water.

Dressed up, presumably for Easter. Christening, launching, and riding in a small boat. Boating scenery. Another boat christening. A surburban home, a runway, and aerial footage. Gardening, and various cut timber scenes. A bird hunt with dogs.

Autumn activities, such as raking leaves and carving pumpkins. A costumed Halloween party. Men and dogs hunting birds.

Children playing in a small pool in the yard. Mountains from the window of a plane. Outdoor scenes: mountains, snow field, log cabin, fishing. Exterior of a small plane.

Digging up land with machinery. Exteriors of various buildings. A fishing trip. Unknown skyline, and various city scenes. An old country graveyard. A baseball game. A log cabin. A construction site.

A landing strip with airplanes. Woman in a field of colorful flowers. A subdivision. Boarding a plane. Dogs in kennels and cradled in people's arms. Poolside panoramas with palm trees. A baseball game viewed from the stands. Driving in nature. Horses in a groomed training ground. Various people posing in front of various homes.

Dirty Work is a film by comedic team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The duo play chimney sweeps with a cleaning job at the home of a chemist that has invented a rejuvination formula. The sweeps soon begin to tinker with the experiments. This film is an edit of the original 20 minute version from 1933.

A Castle Films cartoon from 1936 that brings together several traditional fairy tales.

Title card: "Excerpts from the Feature Film Production Hit the Ice"; The duo plan a trip to Sun Valley, and physical comedy ensues on an ice skating rink. From a 1943 feature film.

Released in 1949, the short film involves the apprehension of bandits in a western scenario. A shootout concludes the narrative.