Sharples; animation, Dave Tendlar, Martin Taras.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 30Sep49; MP4587.
BIG GAME ANGLING. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. (Grantland Rice Sportlight)
Summary: Fishing for tuna off the Nova Scotia peninsula at the
International Tuna Tournament, for blue marlin off the Bahamas, and
for trout, channel bass, and sail fish.
Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 26Mar48; MP2821.
THE BIG HARVEST: THE STORY OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corp., c1947. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. (Our Land
and People Series)
Summary: Hard work, scientific research, and modern machinery make
it possible for the farmers of America to reclaim wasted farm lands
and increase production.
Credits: Producers, Edmund Reek, Boris Vermont; script, Robert M.
Hertzberg; narrator, Hugh James; collaborators, Walter A. Anderson,
Eric H. Haight, John E. Ivey, Gordon N. McKenzie, Robert Lee Morton,
Samuel R. Powers, Howard E. Wilson, George L. White, J. Wallace
Page, Jr., Miller McClintock; editor, John Oser.
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 12Nov47; MP2803.
BIG HEEL-WATHA. Loew's Inc., c1944. 712 ft., sd., color.
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)
Credits: Director, Tex Avery; story, Heck Allen; animation, Ray
Abrams, Preston Blair, Ed Love; music, Scott Bradley. Technicolor.
© Loew's Inc.; 18Oct44; LP12931.
BIG HOUSE BLUES. Screen Gems, Inc., c1947. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm.
(Flippy Cartoon)
Credits: Director, Howard Swift; story, Roy Jenkins; animation,
Grant Simmons, Jay Sarbry; music director, Eddie Kilfeather.
© Screen Gems, Inc.; 6Mar47; LP965.
BIG JACK. Loew's Inc., c1949. 85 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. An MGM picture.
Summary: A comedy-melodrama about the exploits of bank-robbing
outlaws and a grave-robbing doctor. Setting, the backwoods of
Maryland in 1802.
Credits: Producer, Gottfried Reinhardt; director, Richard Thorpe;
story, Robert Theoren; screenplay, Gene Fowler, Marvin Borowsky,
Osso Van Eyss; music score, Herbert Stothart; film editor, George
Boemler.
Cast: Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold,
Vanessa Brown.
© Loew's Inc.; 24Feb49; LP2175.
BIG LEAGUE GLORY. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. (Grantland Rice Sportlight)
Summary: A panorama of baseball from its beginnings a century ago at
Cooperstown, N. Y., to modern major league competition. Among the
immortals of the game shown in action are Carl Hubbell, Walker
Cooper, Johnny Mize, and Mel Ott, of the Giants. A Giants-Dodgers
game at the Polo Grounds and a visit to the game's Hall of Fame are
included.
Credits: Directors, Russell T. Ervin, Rod Warren; narrator, Ted
Husing; music arranger, Harry D. Glass.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 11Jun48; MP3094.
BIG LEAGUE GLORY. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. (Grantland Rice Sportlight)
Summary: A panorama of baseball from its beginnings a century ago at
Cooperstown, N. Y., to modern major league competition. Among the
immortals of the game shown in action are Carl Hubbell, Walker
Cooper, Johnny Mize, and Mel Ott, of the Giants. A Giants-Dodgers
game at the Polo Grounds and a visit to the game's Hall of Fame are
included.
Credits: Directors, Russell T. Ervin, Rod Warren; narrator, Ted
Husing; music arranger, Harry D. Glass.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 11Jun48; MP3145.
BIG MAN FROM THE SOUTH. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,
c1944. 1 reel, sd.
© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 3Apr44; MP1485.
BIG MOUTH BASS. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1948. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
(Sportscope, no. 9)
Summary: Al McLane, fishing editor of Field and Stream magazine, and
his wife go fishing in Sandy Hollow Lake, near New London, Conn.
Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director, Joseph Walsh; written by
Burton Benjamin; narrator, Andre Baruch.
© RKO Pathe, Inc.; 30Apr48; MP3074.
THE BIG NEW PLUS IN ENGINEERING REPRODUCTION. Eastman Kodak Co. 9
min., sd., color, 16mm.
Summary: Demonstrates how Kodak Autopositive paper can be exposed
and automatically processed in a modern blueprinting machine. For
technicians in the field of engineering.
Appl. author: John Mills, Jr.
© Eastman Kodak Co.; title, descr., & 6 prints, 9Jun48; MU3076.
THE BIG NOISE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 7 reels, sd.
Credits: Director, Mal St. Clair; screenplay, W. Scott Darling;
music director, Emil Newman.
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 10Aug44; LP13060.
THE BIG PARTY. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1947. 17 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (This
Is America, no. 7)
Credits: Producer, Frederic Ullman, Jr.; director, Howard Winner;
writer, Jerome Brondfield; narrator, Dwight Weist; music, Nathaniel
Shilkret; editor, David Cooper.
© RKO Pathe, Inc.; 2May47; MP2147.
THE BIG PREMIERE. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 964 ft., sd., b&w.
Credits: Director, Edward Cahn; screenplay, Hal Law, Robert McGowan;
film editor, Adrienne Fazan.
© Loew's Inc.; 13Mar40; LP9537.
THE BIG PUNCH. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1948. 80 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. From a story by George Carleton Brown.
Summary: A melodrama in which a football star becomes a small-town
minister and helps a professional boxer clear himself of a murder
charge.
Credits: Producer, Saul Elkins; director, Sherry Shourds;
screenplay, Bernard Girard; music, William Lava; music director, Leo
F. Forbstein; orchestral arrangements, Charles Maxwell; film editor,
Frank Magee.
Cast: Wayne Morris, Louis Maxwell, Gordon MacRae, Mary Stuart,
Anthony Warde.
© Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 19Jun48; LP1699.
THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAINS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,
Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd.
© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 8Jun42; MP12657.
THE BIG SHOT. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1942. 82 min., sd. A
Warner Bros.-First National picture.
Credits: Director, Lewis Seiler; original screenplay, Bertram
Millhauser, Abem Finkel, Daniel Fuchs; music, Adolph Deutsch; music
director, Leo F. Forbstein; film editor, Jack Killifer.
© Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 13Jun42; LP11374.
THE BIG SHOW-OFF. c1945. Presented by Republic Pictures. 9 reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sydney M. Williams; director, Howard Bretherton;
original screenplay, Leslie Vadnay, Richard Weil; music director,
David Chudnow; photographer, Jack Greenhalgh.
Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.
© Republic Pictures Corp.; 9Jan45; LP13090.
BIG SISTER BLUES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 14 min., sd., color,
35mm. (Musical Parade Featurette)
Summary: A musical short in which two teen-aged daughters bring
their estranged parents together.
Credits: Producer, Harry Grey; director, Alvin Ganzer; original
screenplay, Jack Roberts; music director, Joseph J. Lilley; editor,
Eda Warren.
Cast: John Ridgely, Lee Patrick, Virginia Maxey, Ann Mae Slaughter,
Kathryn Card.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 1Oct48; LP1834.
THE BIG SLEEP. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1946. 114 min., sd.,
35mm. A Warner Bros.-First National picture. From the novel by
Raymond Chandler.
Credits: Director, Howard Hawks; screenplay, William Faulkner, Leigh
Brackett; Jules Furthman; music, Max Steiner; music director, Leo F.
Forbstein; photographer, Sid Hickox; film editor, Christian Nyby.
© Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 31Aug46; LP534.
BIG SNOOZE. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1946. 7 min., sd., color,
35mm. (Bugs Bunny Special)
Credits: Technicolor.
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 19Sep46; MP1148.
THE BIG SOMBRERO. Gene Autry Productions, c1948. 7 reels, sd., color,
35mm.
Summary: Gene Autry, foreman of a Mexican ranch, protects the ranch
owner and her neighbors from the schemes of a dishonest manager.
Credits: Producer, Armand Schaefer; director, Frank McDonald;
original screenplay, Olive Cooper; music director, Mischa
Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Henry Batista.
Cast: Gene Autry, Elena Verdugo, Stephen Dunne, George J. Lewis,
Champion, the horse.
© Gene Autry Productions; 27Sep48; LP1832.
THE BIG STEAL. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1949. 71 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. Based on the story "The Road to Carmichael's" by Richard
Wormser.
Summary: A mystery melodrama in which an army payroll thief is
pursued to his hiding place in the Sierra Madre mountains. Filmed in
Mexico.
Credits: Producer, Jack J. Gross; director, Don Siegel; screenplay,
Geoffrey Homes, Gerald Drayson Adams; music, Leigh Harline; music
director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Samuel E. Beetley.
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix, Patric Knowles,
Ramon Novarro.
© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 23Jun49; LP2381.
THE BIG STORE. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
10 reels, sd., b&w.
Credits: Producer, Louis K. Sidney; director, Charles Riesner;
original story, Nat Perrin; screenplay, Sid Kuller, Hal Fimberg, Ray
Golden; music direction, Georgie Stoll; music adaptation, Earl
Brent; vocal and orchestrations, Leo Arnaud, George Bassman, Herb
Taylor, Robert Van Eps; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig.
© Loew's Inc.; 17Jun41; LP10569.
THE BIG STREET. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1942. 88 min., sd. From the
story "Little Pinks" by Damon Runyon.
Credits: Producer, Damon Runyon; director, Irving Reis; screenplay,
Leonard Spigelgass; music score, Roy Webb; music director, C.
Bakaleinikoff; editor, William Hamilton.
© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 27Jul42; LP11532.
BIG TIME REVUE. Vitaphone Corp., c1947. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
(Melody Master Bands) Warner Bros.
© Vitaphone Corp., 15Oct47; MP2426.
BIG TOWN. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 60 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Based on the radio program.
Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,
William C. Thomas; original story, Geoffrey Homes, Maxwell Shane;
screenplay, Geoffrey Homes; editor, Henry Adams.
Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 10Feb47; LP1004.
BIG TOWN. SEE
Big Town after Dark.
Big Town Scandal.
I Cover Big Town.
So This is New York.
BIG TOWN AFTER DARK. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 70 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm. Based on the radio program "Big Town."
Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,
William C. Thomas; original screenplay, Whitman Chambers; film
editor, Howard Smith.
Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Anne Gillis,
Vince Barnett.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 12Dec47; LP1351.
BIG TOWN SCANDAL. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 62 min., sd., b&w,
35mm. Based on the radio program "Big Town."
Summary: In his efforts to save five boys from a life of crime,
Steve Wilson, Big Town's crime-fighting newspaperman, tangles with
fur thieves, juvenile delinquents, and basketball racketeers.
Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,
William C. Thomas; original screenplay, Milton Raison; music,
Darrell Calker; film editor, Howard Smith.
Cast: Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Stanley Clements, Darryl Hickman,
Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 30Jul48; LP1739.
THE BIG WASH. Walt Disney Productions, c1947. 1 reel, sd., color,
35mm. (A Walt Disney Goofy)
Credits: Director, Clyde Geronimi; story, Bill Berg, Milt Banta;
animators, John Sibley, Cliff Nordberg, Hugh Fraser, George Rowley;
music, Oliver Wallace. Technicolor.
© Walt Disney Productions; 21May47; LP1422.
THE BIGAMIST (QUATTRO PASSI FRA LE NUVOLE). Produced in Italy, c1943.
Released in the U. S., 1949. Presented by Pax Enterprise, Inc. 88
min., sd., b&w, 35mm. With English titles.
Summary: A comedy about a sentimental, henpecked traveling salesman
who befriends a pregnant girl who is afraid to go home without a
husband.
Credits: Director, Allessandro Blasetti; screenplay, Giuseppe Amato;
English adaptation, Giorgi Curti; music, Allessandro Cicognini;
cameraman, Waclaw Vick.
Cast: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Enrico Viarisio, Carlo Romano,
Giuditta Rissone.
Appl. authors: Giuseppe Amato, Geo. Curti.
© Pax Enterprise, Inc.; 20Jun43; LP2297.
THE BIGGEST ASPIDASTRA IN THE WORLD. Soundies Distributing Corp. of
America, Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd.
© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 29Jun42; MP12725.
BIKES AND SKIS. Released by Warner Bros., c1944. 10 min., sd., color.
(Sports Parade)
Credits: Producers, A. Pam Blumenthal, Van Campen Heilner; director,
Andre De La Varre; narrator, Sam Balter. Technicolor.
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 28Dec44; MP15741.
BIKINI—THE ATOM ISLAND. Loew's Inc., c1946. Presented by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 950 ft., sd., b&w. (A Carey Wilson Miniature)
Credits: Music score, Tax Terr; film editor, George Boemler.
© Loew's Inc.; 10Jun46; MP675.
BILATERAL CLEFT-LIP RECONSTRUCTION—SCHULTZ METHOD. 400 ft., color,
16mm.
Appl. author: Merrill James Shepro.
© Shepro Scientific Film Co.; title, descr., & 4 prints, 29Oct43;
MU14094.
BILL AND COO. Republic Productions, Inc., c1948. 61 min., sd., color,
35mm. Based on an idea from Ken Murray's "Blackouts."
Summary: A drama about two love birds, Bill and his sweetheart, Coo,
and a villainous crow. The cast includes 273 love birds and a few
small animals who live in the bird village, Chirpendale.
Credits: Producer, Ken Murray; director, Dean Riesner; screenplay,
Royal Foster, Dean Riesner; music, David Buttolph; music director,
Lionel Newman; film editor, Harold Minter.
Cast: George Burton's love birds, Curley Twiford's Jimmy the Crow,
George Burton, Elizabeth Walters.
© Republic Pictures Corp.; 17Feb48; LP1500.
BILL BAILEY. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1945. 1
reel, sd.
© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 5Mar45; MP15662.
A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1940. 74 min., sd.
From the play by Clemence Dane.
Credits: Producer, Robert Sisk; director, John Farrow; screenplay,
Dalton Trumbo; music score, Roy Webb; editor, Harry Marker.
© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 6May40; LP9612.
BILLBOARD BILL. Bert Gold, c1948. 6 min., b&w, 16mm. A filmstrip for
television.
Summary: A signpainter, facing the camera, prints commercial
messages on glass for a television broadcast.
© Bert Gold; 19Mar48; MP3035.
BILLIE GETS HER MAN. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1948. 17 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A slapstick comedy evolves from a series of
misunderstandings.
Credits: Producer, Hugh McCollum; director, Edward Bernds; story and
screenplay, Edward Bernds; film editor, Henry De Mond.
Cast: Billie Burke.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 9Sep48; LP1831.
BILLIONS FOR MILLIONS. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by
Frigidaire Division, General Motors Corp. 5 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: The new Frigidaire advertising program.
© The Jam Handy Organization, Inc.; title, descr., & 6 prints,
23Apr48; MU2912.
BILLPOSTERS. Walt Disney Productions, c1940. 1 reel. (A Walt Disney
Donald Duck)
© Walt Disney Productions; 30Mar40; LP9632.
BILLY MOUSE'S AKWAKADE. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Corp., c1940. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd., color. (A
Terrytoon)
Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Eddie Donnelly; story, John
Foster; music, Philip A. Scheib. Technicolor.
© Terrytoons, Inc.; 9Aug40; MP10422.
BILLY ROSE'S DIAMOND HORSESHOE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.,
c1945. 9,511 ft., sd. Suggested by a play produced by Charles L.
Wagner and written by John Kenyon Nicholson.
Credits: Directed and written for the screen by George Seaton; music
direction, Alfred Newman, Charles Henderson; orchestral
arrangements, Herbert Spender.
© Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 2May45; LP13384.
BILLY THE KID. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
10 reels, sd., color. Suggested by the book "The Saga of Billy the
Kid" by Walter Noble Burns.
Credits: Producer, Irving Ascher; director, David Miller; story,
Howard Emmett Rogers, Bradbury Foote; screenplay, Gene Fowler; music
score, David Snell; film editor, Robert J. Kern. Technicolor.
© Loew's Inc.; 28May41; LP10528.
BILLY THE KID IN SANTA FE. Producers Releasing Corp., c1941. 6 reels,
sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sherman Scott;
original screenplay, Joseph O'Donnell; music, Johnny Lange, Lew
Porter; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 3Jul41; LP10580.
BILLY THE KID IN TEXAS. Producers Releasing Corp., c1940. 6 reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Peter Stewart;
original screenplay, Joseph O'Donnell; music director, Lew Porter;
film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 30Sep40; LP9940.
BILLY THE KID OUTLAWED. Producers Releasing Corp., c1940. 6 reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Peter Stewart;
original screenplay, Oliver Drake; music director, Lou Porter; film
editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 12Jul40; LP9804.
BILLY THE KID TRAPPED. Producers Releasing Corp., c1942. 6 reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sherman Scott;
original screenplay, Joseph O'Donnell; music, Johnny Lange, Lew
Porter; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 30Jan42; LP11053.
BILLY THE KID WANTED. Producers Releasing Corp., c1941. 6 reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sherman Scott;
original screenplay, Fred Myton; music, Johnny Lange, Lew Porter;
film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 4Oct41; LP10758.
BILLY THE KID'S FIGHTING PALS. Producers Releasing Corp., c1941. 6
reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sherman Scott; story,
George Plympton; music director, Dave Chudnow; film editor, Holbrook
N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 9Apr41; LP10391.
BILLY THE KID'S GUN JUSTICE. Producers Releasing Corp., c1940. 6
reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Peter Stewart;
original screenplay, Tom Gibson; music director, Lew Porter; film
editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 25Dec40; LP10151.
BILLY THE KID'S RANGE WAR. Producers Releasing Corp., c1941. 6 reels,
sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Peter Stewart;
original screenplay, William Lively; music director, Lew Porter;
film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 16Jan41; LP10171.
BILLY THE KID'S ROUND-UP. Producers Releasing Corp., c1941. 6 reels,
sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sherman Scott;
original screenplay, Fred Myton; music, Johnny Lange, Lew Porter;
film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 14Nov41; LP10823.
BILLY THE KID'S SMOKING GUNS. Producers Releasing Corp., c1942. 6
reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sherman Scott;
original screenplay, George Milton; music, Johnny Lange, Lew Porter;
film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© Producers Releasing Corp.; 21May42; LP11321.
BIM, BAM, BUM. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1944. 1
reel, sd.
© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 18Dec44; MP15493.
BIRCH BAILEY, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER. Tele-Comic Productions. sd., b&w,
35mm. A filmstrip for television.
Summary: Birch Bailey, cartoon character, goes to the island of
Matasuki, a Chinese supply base, in order to construct storehouses.
Credits: Produced and written by Ronald E. Buchanan, Robert A.
Jones.
© Robert Emerson Buchanan, Robert Abbit Jones; title & descr.,
10May48; 1c, 22May48; MU3040.
THE BIRD CAME C.O.D. c1942. 1 reel, sd. (Merrie Melodies, no. 351)
Leon Schlesinger Productions.
Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; story, E. S. Pierce; animation,
Ken Harris; music director, Carl W. Stalling.
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 17Jan42; MP12038.
A BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,
c1944. 1 reel, sd.
© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 29May44; MP14878.
A BIRD IN THE HEAD. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1946. 2 reels.
Credits: Directed and written by Edward Bernds.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 28Feb46; LP210.
THE BIRD TOWER. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.,
c1941. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd., color. (A Terrytoon)
Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Mannie Davis; story, John
Foster; music, Philip A. Scheib. Technicolor.
© Terrytoons, Inc.; 28Nov41; MP11841.
BIRDIE AND THE BEAST. Released by Warner Bros., c1944. 7 min., sd.,
color. (Merrie Melodies)
Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; director, Robert Clampett;
animation, Tom McKimson. Technicolor.
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 21Aug44; MP15130.
THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS WERE THERE. Released by Warner Bros., c1945.
10 min., sd., color. (Sports Parade)
Credits: Producers, Blumenthal, Heilner; director, Andre de LaVarre;
narrator, Knox Manning. Technicolor.
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 4Jan45; MP15527.
BIRDS IN WINTER. Coronet, c1946. 11 min., sd., color, 16mm.
Credits: Collaborator, Philip A. DuMont.
© Coronet Instructional Films, a division of Esquire, Inc.; 5Dec46;
MP2573.
BIRDS MAKE SPORT. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1946. 1 reel, sd., 35mm.
(Grantland Rice Sportlight)
Credits: Narrator, John Kieran.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 21Jun46; MP711.
BIRDS OF PREY. SEE Aves de Rapiña.
BIRDS ON THE WING. Columbia Pictures Corp. in cooperation with the New
York Zoological Society, c1943. 875 ft., sd. (A Columbia Panoramic)
Credits: Director, Irving Jacoby; commentator, Raymond Morgan;
editor, John Ferno.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 24Aug43; MP13877.
BIRTH OF A NOTION. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1947. 7 min., sd.,
color, 35mm. (Looney Tunes)
Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Warren Foster.
© Vitaphone Corp.; 4Apr47; MP1960.
THE BIRTH OF A STAR. Astor Pictures Corp., c1944. 4 reels, sd. Adapted
from "Dime a Dance," "Cupid Takes a Holiday," and "Getting an
Eyeful," by Art Jarrett, Marcy Klauber, and Billy K. Wells.
Credits: Director, Bud Pollard.
© Astor Pictures Corp.; 23Nov44; LP13006.
BIRTH OF AN OIL FIELD. George Pal, in collaboration with the
Production Department of Shell Oil Company, Inc., c1949. 1 reel,
sd., color, 16mm. (This Is Oil)
Summary: This film, part of a series on the petroleum industry,
explains and demonstrates methods, procedures, and equipment used in
the drilling of oil wells.
Credits: Producer, George Pal; director, Duke Goldstone; story,
Norman Vizents; music director, Clarence Wheeler; animation, Miles
Pike.
Cast: Victor Jory, Knox Manning, Gayne Whitman, William Forrest,
Smiley Burnette.
© Shell Oil Company, Inc.; 3Feb49; MP3888.
BIRTH OF THE AEROPROP. Presented by Aero Products Division, General
Motors Corp. 1 reel, sd., b&w.
Appl. author: Jam Handy Organization, Inc.
© General Motors, Aero Products Div.; title, descr., & 8 prints,
4Mar44; MU14567.
BIRTH OF THE BLUES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1941. 10 reels, sd.
Credits: Producer, B. G. De Sylva; director, Victor Schertzinger;
story, Harry Tugend; screenplay, Harry Tugend, Walter De Leon;
photographer, William Mellor; film editor, Paul Weatherwax.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 7Nov41; LP10985.
BIRTH OF THE SOIL. The Conservation Foundation in association with the
New York Zoological Society. Released by Encyclopaedia Britannica
Films, c1948. 11 min., sd., color, 16mm. (The Living Earth Series,
pt. 1)
Summary: An explanation of how nature produces topsoil from the
basic raw materials of rock, water, air, and sunlight. The film
emphasizes the necessity for an organized conservation program to
save our natural resources. Includes animated drawings. For high
school students and adult groups.
Credits: Director, George E. Brewer, Jr.; story, John H. Storer.
© New York Zoological Society; 6Jul48; MP3452.
BIRTHDAY. SEE Heaven Can Wait.
BIRTHDAY BLUES. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1944. 17 min., sd.
Credits: Producer, George Bilson; direction and screenplay, Hal
Yates; film editor, Lyle Boyer.
© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 31Dec44; LP13164.