(1) Five Little Peppers "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" - 1939 (see my description below)

In the spirit of my "Remember When" earlier offerings, here is one of my earliest movie favorites I watched as a small child(my paternal grandfather was bequeathed a set of movie theaters and would bring over vintage movies so we could set them up on my maternal grandfather's projector at home on Galveston Island.) So, I give you now, the first in the series, "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew".
If I get more than 10 views on this one, I will also upload the 3 other short movies in the "Five Little Peppers" series....
"The Five Little Peppers" is a book series created by American author Margaret Sidney which was published 1881 to 1916. It covers the lives of the five Pepper children in their native state, and develops with their rescue by a wealthy gentleman who takes an interest in the family. The Pepper books were the inspiration for a brief series of feature films produced by Columbia Pictures in 1939 and 1940.
The four films were vehicles for Columbia's juvenile star Edith Fellows, who played "Polly". The rest of the children were Charles Peck (perhaps best known as the rich kid in the film version of Dead End) as "Ben", Tommy Bond of Our Gang as "Joey", Bobby Larson as "Davie", and Dorothy Ann Seese as "Phronsie". Clarence Kolb played "Mr. King" in the first two films, succeeded by Pierre Watkin in the remaining two; King's son "Jasper" was played in all four films by Ronald Sinclair, the former Ra Hould of late-1930s features.
The first Five Little Peppers film was devoted mostly to Edith Fellows as the senior member of the Pepper brood, and was not an exact reflection of the book. The other three films were homespun family stories with elements of comedy and drama. Edith Fellows carried the series, although by the time it lapsed, five-year-old Dorothy Ann Seese had become an audience favorite and was billed at the head of the cast, second only to Fellows.
The Pepper screenplays had little to do with the original books, but the four films were popular with moviegoers. The films remained in circulation for many years, and Columbia reissued two of them in 1946 as part of an industry-wide "children's film library" for weekend matinées. The series was also reprinted on 16mm film for schools, libraries, and nontheatrical showings. In order of their original release, the films are:
"Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" (1939); introducing the Pepper family at their humble home in Gusty Corners.
"Five Little Peppers at Home" (1940); the kids trapped in a mine.
"Out West with the Peppers" (1940); the kids visit Oregon.
"Five Little Peppers in Trouble" (1940); the kids at a snobbish school.