From 1929 to 1931, Hal Roach's “Our Gang” series showcasing scruffy but lovable kids was among the studio's biggest successes in the new era of sound. But in 1932, the franchise would introduce one of the most beloved and durable members of the gang in George ""Spanky"" McFarland—so named because of his mother's constant admonitions of ""Mustn't touch! Spanky, spanky!""

The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.

The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."

While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.

The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.

The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.

The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."

The kids help capture a family of thieves.

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.

The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.

Wheezer pretends to be sick in order to get his parents to stop fighting.

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Mickey overhears the gang rehearsing a play and thinks it's real.

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, the children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.

The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.

A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.