
28 Nov 1944

Meet Me in St. Louis
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

LAUGH AND BE YOUNG The SCREEN'S FIRST FAMILY ...STEPS OUT!
Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.

John Jones

Mrs. John Jones

Bonnie Jones

Herbert Thompson

Jack Jones

Roger Jones

Lucy Jones

Granny Jones

Bobby Jones

Sandra

Boris Mousilvitch
Tommy McGuire

Dr. Kinsley

Girl (as Joan Brodel)

Bit Part (as Constance Keane)

28 Nov 1944

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

06 May 1938

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.

17 May 1940

The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.

24 Sep 1937

The Jones family is in an uproar when Dad's campaign for mayor appears sabotaged by an anonymous newspaper article.

10 Dec 1937

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

30 May 1938

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

11 Oct 1938

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

02 Jun 1939

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

14 Aug 1936

The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.

26 Apr 1959

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
30 Apr 1939
Animated segments which might have originally framed live action footage of bakers at work making Wonder Bread and Hostess cakes.

25 Aug 1939

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

23 May 1936

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come in handy.

05 Feb 1937

The Jones family's uncle George enters his trotting horse in the fair grounds race. The family helps raise the entrance fee and care for the horse.

17 Jul 1952

Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

18 Jun 1937

A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

18 Feb 1915

In 1915-16, San Diego's Balboa Park was the scene of an exposition to mark completion of the Panama Canal. This film takes us through the exposition: from the Cabrillo bridge and a panoramic view of the site, to the facades of the California Building, Horticultural Building, Panama Canal Exhibit, and the reproduction of the locks at Gatuna. We see tourists on the isthmus and a crowd outside the Panama Film Company's exhibit of how movies are made. We watch the feeding of fish at the laguna, and we end at the Plaza de Panama where toddlers are surrounded by pigeons. Fatty Arbuckle makes a brief appearance outside the Panama Film exhibit. Titles give us each structure's cost.

31 Jan 1945

In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and moves forward again.

04 Mar 1938

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

10 Feb 1994

Uses first-person accounts from Missourians who went to the Fair in 1904, interviews with historians, archival motion pictures, and photographs to situate the St. Louis Fair in the social, political, and cultural context of American society in 1904. Covers American civilization at the turn of the century; the representation of history; authenticity; modernity; dress and body language; oral history and childhood memories; world fairs as experiences; and receiving information through visual symbols, words, and exhibits.