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A short film by artist Adaline Kent documenting her travels in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Little Henery the Chicken Hawk wants to trap Foghorn Leghorn for his dinner, and Barnyard Dawg says he will help Henery to catch Foghorn on one condition - that Henery find him a bone. Henery's effort to find the dog a bone involves obtaining cheese for a mouse and a fish for a cat, with Foghorn's help! Once the dog is given his bone, he uses it to knock Foghorn out so that Foghorn can be carried away by Henery on a toy train.

Ben-Hurry (1959) dir. Richard Fontaine Apollo Films/Zenith Pictures/R.A. Enterprises made at AMG Studios (Bob Mizer's Athletic Model Guild) starring: Alan Parker, Bruce Reed and Joe Leitel "A comedy about three movie extras and the troubles each one gets into on the movie set of a six million dollar movie production." via: Richard Fontaine's Days of Greek Gods (2011) The Bob Mizer Foundation film archive: https://www.posingstrap.tv/videos/ra34-dvd21 http://www.bobmizer.org/

Nature short in which a badger is sprayed by a skunk.

Four Disney artists paint their own interpretations of a tree, and explain their techniques and methods.

Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede.

This 1958 filmed version of Verdi's masterful Otello stars Mario Del Monaco, perhaps the greatest Otello of the 21st century, as the tragic moor who is consumed by jealousy thanks to the machinations of the villainous Jago.

The film presents how the human body recognizes and becomes aware of its surroundings. The various information pathways to the brain such as sight, sound, smell, taste and touch are explored in a accurate but simple manner via human impression and cartoon characters!

A teenage girl reflects on her emotional growth, remembering episodes in which her love, fear, anger were not always under control, and decides not to go "park" with her boyfriend.

Two clumsy detectives investigating the murder of a singer scare themselves when they accidentally reveal the killer to be a respectable psychiatrist, secretly a notorious jewel-thief. A rare film venture by this top radio comedy team.

The cartoon opens with a line of people (including Woody) drooling at the window of a market butcher's shop (Buzz Buzzard). What ensues is a short series of gags about how Buzz dishonestly (and literally) "jacks" up all his prices. Since Woody is broke as usual, he sneaks in and gets thrown out by Buzz. On the way out, Woody collides with a bottle of invisible ink and turns partially invisible. Buzz can only see parts of Woody's body and thinks he's been dismembered, (this scene is actually kind of gruesome) so he sweeps him into a trap door to get rid of him. When Woody awakes, he realizes what is happening, and douses himself with the rest of the ink...

When the cartoonist takes a coffee break and leaves the office for a spell, Katnip and "Hoiman" break the 4th-dimesion wall (and several dozen real walls)with their escapades and conflicts and ideas exchanges. Katnip, per usual, gets the short end as Herman leaves him stuck in the ink bottle.

Documentary on the American railways.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

a quiet, humorous mockumentary on cars, with Freilicher narrating Kenneth Koch’s text and Frank O’Hara as the pianist.

This film covers the basics of atomic theory while addressing the moral issues inherent in yielding such godlike power.

A young man meets a young woman under a bridge by a railroad. They shelter from the rain and exchange a kiss. The man grows sullen and leaves. The film starts with him and ends with her. It’s a straightforward anecdote told in traditional ways, the likes of which he’d forsake forever; that is, it uses actors, a soundtrack with music and post-dubbed sound effects, a photographer who frames everything professionally and a coherent edited narrative.

The birth of Baby Huey! The headlines in "Barnyard Eggstra" read: "Duck Lays Huge Egg. Mother Eggcited. Egg To Be Named Huey." A fox steals the giant egg and escapes with it. When he uses a hammer to crack the egg, Baby Huey is hatched. The fox tries to cook the king-size duckling. Huey mistakes the fox for his mommy and thinks that he's just trying to give him a bath. He chases the fox, thinking that the fox is his mother and trying to escape him. In tears, his mother shows up with a milk bottle. Baby Huey is overjoyed: "I'm the luckiest duck in the world, I've got two mothers."

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Breezy gets into the circus for free on kids' day, but penniless Windy has to resort to guile and intrigue in order to obtain a painful entrance.

A short documentary looking at aspects of the Korean war.

Documentary about the works

Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...

The history of American transportation from the horse and buggys of yesteryear to the progression of the motor car.

With his hard-work and patience, a virtuous boy overcomes the harshness of the world.

Lincoln Speaks for Himself (1955) uses Lincoln's own words to dramatize his progression from the first political speech he gave in 1832, as a candidate for the Illinois state legislature, to those immortal words spoken at Gettysburg to his second inaugural in 1865.

Casper, the friendly ghost, makes friends with a baby seal at the North Pole. Mama and Papa Seal are afraid of Casper, but the baby and Casper becomes playmates.

Australian adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play, produced as a part of Shell Presents.

This short film takes the viewer on a tour through the world of harness racing and show horses.

Documentary about curling in Canada. It shows: slow motion shot of sweepers clearing the path of the rock; Ken Watson, head of a Canadian championship curling team, demonstrating curling shots; taking care of the curling rink; scenes from Scotland, where granite is made into curling stones); women curling; rules of the game; overhead shot of children curling with homemade cement stones in the jam tin league in Regina (named for the jam tins filled with cement to make stones); high school curling leagues in Western Canada; highlights of a game between two teams skipped by Ken Watson and Jimmy Welsh; outdoor march by curlers and kilted marching band; and scenes of Canadian Curlers.

Mom goes to the hospital and daddy is left at home to take care of the baby, and he has a terrible time feeding, bathing and changing him as disaster is the result of every thing he attempts. Finally, after hours of exhaustive work, the baby is asleep, and the father hears from the hospital that his wife has just made him the father of triplets. He then goes outside and starts shoot of the passing storks.

Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

Ice-cream vendor gets caught up in wacky misadventures.

Shows that poems can be written about many subjects. Points out that choral speaking and impromptu composition can increase the enjoyment of poems.

In this musical, an ambitious young singer and her band leave their small hometown to head for the Big Apple in hopes of finding fame and fortune.

Masked justice on horseback. #3 of four.

Sunny-sweet the prune shows us how prunes are made from certain kinds of plums, why they're so good for you, and, in live action, some recipes made with prunes. As a subplot, he also explains why California prunes are better than those from the Pacific Northwest and other areas. (Of course, Sunny may be a bit biased, since this film was sponsored by a California organization of prune growers).

A Terrytoons cartoon about Dinky Duck, the duck that can't swim.

The Sound of Jazz is an historic episode from the "Seven Lively Arts" anthology series featuring jazz greats in concert. Hosted by John Crosby, it offers some fascinating performances from Count Basie, Billie Holliday, Thelonious Monk and many more. This 58-minute program is a truly original and unique broadcast from CBS Studio 58 in New York on December 8, 1957.

A sheep rancher entrusts his goofy sheepdog Dizzy to guard his herd one night. The dog is told to blow a whistle when he sees a wolf, but he spends his time fooling his master by "crying wolf," and he proceeds to blow the whistle for no reason other than to excite the farmer. The fun begins when a real wolf shows up to steal the flock after Dizzy has worn out his warning. Taken from the "Boy Who Cried Wolf" story.

Film from the leading American producer of aluminum illustrating the versatility of the material in building and design. Color and Texture in Aluminum Finishes was singled out in the trade press for its avant-garde qualities and considered by Howard Thompson as “probably the most strikingly imaginative industrial short subject ever filmed in the United States.” Although originally targeted at design professionals, the short was also successfully shown to general audiences.

This Traveltalks series entry visits several places on the Riviera on the coast of France. Stops include Villefranche, which boasts an artist colony; Níce, with its resorts favored by tourists; and a casino in Cannes.

Five-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke.

The death of Joseph Stalin leaves the Soviet Union without a leader. Who will take control and seize power?

A murderer attempts to escape justice by shipping his victims body to Tokyo in a trunk.

Limited animation safety film from the Navy.

Short by Serge Bourguignon

Animated film about Germany's drift into nazism.

Documentary about workers at a public beach ressort.

Experimental film showing film clips of a garden, with birds chirping for the soundtrack.

UPA cartoon about a nuclear family trying to live within a family budget.

This film stars June Adair "The Battling Ballerina" versus Lynn O'Conner, "The Lovely Terror".

Popeye is driving across country against Count Noah Count. He's hopelessly outmatched; the Count has a very powerful car, and Popeye's is barely running. And to top it off, the Count doesn't play fair.

The youngest son of poverty-stricken Old Mother Rabbit, who lives in a show in a forest, leaves home to seek his fortune in order to help his family. He soon fins himself in an amazing land where trees dance, sing and play. The baby rabbit saves the frog kind from the clutches of a hungry crane. He is given a pile of gold coins as a reward.

A short black and white film from James Broughton with Kermit Sheets in a Chaplinesque role.

This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns, fists and singing abilities against a gang of stage-robbing bandits. This film was combined with another Tex Williams short, Coyote Canyon, and reissued as the feature-length "Tales of the West No.2.)

A short burlesque act with comedians and strippers, shot in 3D

A compilation reel of local movie theatre trailers for upcoming events, such as a “Bug-o-Rama” festival and a “Marathon of Fright.”

Deals with young people dealing and using drugs of all kind.