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The story of Willie Hoppe, world-champion billiard player for more than fifty years, even into his seventies. Commentator Bill Stern describes Hoppe's abilities as the camera catches the match played at the New York Athletic Club, which Hoppe easily wins while playing against a much-younger opponent. The reel concludes with Hoppe demonstrating some of the tricks he can perform with a pool cue and a ball.
The Eames House and Studio is explored via a series of slides.
Herman rescues Louise by using magic on Katnip.
A kaleidoscope of colors and sounds that captures the essence of the 1952 celebration. Examples include famous mas bands—the costumed groups who join the parades—including Carnival designer Harold Sadenah’s Quo Vadis and steelband The Invaders seen dressed in full military regalia.
Biology teacher shows pupils how they react differently to same situation. Discusses what emotions are, what they do, where they come from, and how they are changed. Effects of emotions on voluntary and involuntary behavior.
Benjamin Peret narrates Aztec myth
A singalong 'Screen Song' hosted by a cast of kooky confections.
A singalong with spot gags about vegetables.
A one-hour variety show performed live at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, featuring a who’s-who of vocal and big band jazz and comedy acts of the 1950s.
Joseph Cornell film with input from Rudolph Burckhardt. Also the title to one of Cornell's collages.
hong kong film
The first film by Ed Emswhiller
The Black Knight overwhelms his competitors in a jousting tournament until an operetta-singing Mighty Mouse comes to save the day.
New York City’s bridges dissolve into shifting abstractions through montage, superimposition, and color. Set to an electronic score by Louis and Bebe Barron, the film transforms familiar urban structures into an uncanny, alien landscape (an alternate version of the film features a jazz score by Teo Macero).
Documentary about young prisoners who are reintroduced to society.
A promotional film touting RCA/Victor's new stereo Victrola.
Husband and wife struggle to attain a balance of power in their marriage in this neorealist social guidance film.
Little Roquefort, tired of being chased and torment by the cat of the house, goes to the country to visit his cousin on a farm. There, he finds that life is not all free cheese and that the rooster, chickens and pigs play the 'cat-mouse' game with intent to eliminate the mouse. He quickly returns home and gives the astonished cat a big hug.
Susan and Jimmy Bray order a present for their mother as we follow the order through the post office and the package sent in response.
Screen Song with spot gags about newsreels (including Paramount's own newsreel division).
The case of Anne Morton, victim of a schizophrenic breakdown, is recounted in an unusual new psychological film which pictures the operations of a mental hospital through the eyes of a patient.
This early (1951) short, which lasts less than two minutes, features Sheree North--long before she became famous--dancing in a one-piece swimsuit and a pair of cat's ears. She then leaps out of camera range and reappears wearing a two-piece swimsuit, this time with no cat's ears. She dances some more. That's it.
The story of the independent railroad and its survival against the giants.
Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape.
From the Home Movies Collection.
Short by Joseph Marzano.
Made by RKO-Pathe, in Pathe color and three-dimension, in observance of the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase from France at a cost of $15,000,000 (more than the annual income of the U.S.A. at the time). After a short narrative showing U.S. Ambassador Robert Livingston (Val Winter) negotiating the purchase with Napoleon and Tallyrand, the rest of the film, guided by Livingston's spirit, visits the 1953 territory of the purchase and shows the growth of such former outposts as Minneapolis, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Most of the footage is given to New Orleans, Louisiana and its Vieux Carre, docks, business district and museums, ending with the preparation for that city's annual Mardi Gras.
This short film celebrates the hard work, tenacity, and ingenuity of inventors. Highlighted are some seemingly small inventions that have become part of daily life.
A remake of a 1939 British short film of the same title. A sick boy is cured when his father, who is a vivisectionist, brings home his stolen dog.
3 screen tests by Joseph Cornell.
Katnip opens a pizza parlor right next door to where the little mice live. As the aroma of fresh pizza drifts into the gym, the mice can't resist. Cousin Herman tries to make Chubby slim down so that Katnip won't get him. Herman is getting the mice in condition to run when they make a raid.
Deals with young people dealing and using drugs of all kind.
Documentary about workers at a public beach ressort.
A short film that documents horticulturalist Andrew Benson, owner of Andrew Benson, Inc., working at his greenhouse located in Des Plaines, Illinois.
An British Columbia Social Services Documentary.
An impressionistic study of the celebrated tap dancer.
Police procedural: some detail pertaining to a murder case is nagging at the back of a detective's mind "like having a stone in his shoe." Once he teases it to the surface, he solves the case.
In this training film for Caprolan nylon rugs, the great Jonathan Winters shows sales-folks how to do their job better. How, indeed, to go FROM RUGS TO RICHES.
Answers questions about zoo animals and their offspring. Shows physical characteristics and habits of baby monkeys, gnus, kudus, lions, peacocks, alligators and bears.
1950's television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler's sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi's and Eva Braun's rare home movies.
BAFTA-nominated documentary short commemorating the Catholic Holy Year of 1950.
In this strange little film, Marie Menken photographs billowy flames superimposed over microscopic medical footage of writhing spermatozoa.
Mr. Magoo is watching a TV program named "Home Roam" which examines the homes of various families and subsequently learns that he and Waldo have been scheduled to air on tonight's broadcast. Magoo proceeds to show the cameramen the various rooms and exhibits of his house. Unfortunately, his publicity is threatened by a burglar and his trained gorilla who break into Magoo's house and attempt to rob it. Of course, Magoo doesn't notice the gorilla (he even mistakes it for Waldo) and reassures the cameramen that Waldo will be all right even if he does have "the manners of a gorilla".
An animated short film from Stan Vanderbeek.
A devious fox comes to a small farm and uses flattery to trick the ducks, chickens and roosters into coming with him, supposedly to compete at the County Fair. Dinky is desperate to come along, too, but the fox rejects the little black duck for the same reason all the other farm birds shun him: he's too small. Dinky, however, discovers that the fox has tricked all the birds into his cave. The fox has them caged and plans to roast them in his oven. It's up to the once-despised Dinky to come to the rescue.
Visit to Ashok Kumar home.
An 80-sec excerpt of the edge-to-edge scan of Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s 1957 film "Golf"s 16mm celluloid print with punched holes across the frame lines and on the original soundtrack.
This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of radar stations built across Alaska and the Canadian north as part of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. These are isolated outposts, many of which are only accessible by air. Buildings, roads and landing strips had to be built from scratch. There's a visit to Barrow Village, Alaska the most northern point of US territory.
This short film is a reading of Madeline's Christmas; a supplement to the December 1956 issue of McCall's magazine, written by Ludwig Bemelmans. The reading is performed by Ireene Wicker (aka the "Singing Lady" of radio and early TV fame).
Directed by Peter Pickering.
Chicken farmer John Lloyd learns the importance of blood tests when he gives his pregnant wife a dose of the clap after a one-night fling with a lonely waitress.
An anti speeding scare film from the 1950's.
Farmer Elmer Fudd agrees to provide a duck to his wife for dinner. Daffy Duck has been a moocher on Elmer's farm and has therefore not endeared himself to Fudd or to Fudd's dog.
Records the life and work of Ansel Adams. Dwells on his equipment, home, interests, and his attitude toward art, photography and life.
Bob used to be a loner, keeping to himself and thinking "my own thoughts"--until he meets Joe, a "sincere and real" young man who befriends Bob, and several other local boys, and together they form a group of happy young teens. Joe eventually wins a trip to the state capital by turning in the winning essay on Junior Citizenship in a contest, and Bob and the other boys learn of the rewards of friendship--which are, apparently, that all the hard work you put in on a project results in someone else getting a trip to the state capitol.
Short by Serge Bourguignon
Historic documentary about the development of the Norwegian factory town Rjukan, based on artificial fertilizers industry, now a Unesco World Heritage site. In 15 years the town was built from scratch for 1,5 Norwegian national budget.
An expressive short film in which examples of early and modern art are juxtaposed to reveal correspondences.