 In 1930 White and his boyhood friend Zion Myers moved to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio.They conceived and co-directed M-G-M's gimmicky Dogville Comedies, which featured trained dogs in satires of recent Hollywood films (like "The Dogway Melody" and "So Quiet on the Canine Front").White and Myers co-directed the Buster Keaton feature "Sidewalks of New York" (1931), and launched a series of "Goofy Movies," one-reel parodies of silent-era melodramas.