Dogville Comedies  

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"Dogville shorts" are a series of gimmicky films, which featured trained dogs in satires of recent Hollywood films like The Dogway Melody and All Quiet on the Canine Front. They were directed by Jules White and Zion Myers who had moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1930. White and Myers also co-directed the Buster Keaton feature Sidewalks of New York, and launched a series of "Goofy Movies," one-reel parodies of silent-era melodramas.

Pete Smith's "Goofy Movies" comedy shorts were one reel (10 minute) shorts designed to be short spoofs of the movie going experience of the day, which included getting music, a newsreel, added attractions and other things along with the feature film. In these shorts you got all those things in 10 minutes along with the humorous narration of Pete Smith. Usually, the "feature" film was a "silent" film with comedic narration added.

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