Summary: A musical short featuring "Drink to Me Only with Th_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

Eyes," "Blue Bells of Scotland," "Santa Lucia" and "When You and I

Were Young Maggie." Designed for audience participation.

Credits: Director, Benjamin R. Parker; screenplay, Courtney Leigh;

editor, Leonard Anderson.

1948); MP3855.

LET'S SING A SONG ABOUT THE MOONLIGHT. Vitaphone Corp., c1947. 10

min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Memories from Melody Lane) Warner Bros.

Credits: Directed and written by Jack Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore.

LET'S SING A SONG FROM THE MOVIES. Vitaphone Corp., c1948. 10 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. (Memories From Melody Lane) Warner Bros.

Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Jack

Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore; film editor, Harold McLernon.

LET'S SING A SONG OF THE WEST. Vitaphone Corp., c1947. 10 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. (Memories from Melody Lane) Warner Bros.

Credits: Written and directed by Jack Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore.

LET'S SING A STEPHEN FOSTER SONG. Vitaphone Corp., c1948. 10 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. (Memories from Melody Lane) Warner Bros.

Summary: Recreates scenes from the life of Stephen Foster, and shows

him at work on "My Old Kentucky Home," "Swanee River," "Beautiful

Dreamer," and "Camptown Races." Designed for audience participation.

Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Jack

Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore; film editor, Harold McLernon.

LET'S SING A STEPHEN FOSTER SONG. Vitaphone Corp., c1948. 10 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. (Memories from Melody Lane) Warner Bros.

Summary: Recreates scenes from the life of Stephen Foster, and shows

him at work on "My Old Kentucky Home," "Swanee River," "Beautiful

Dreamer," and "Camptown Races." Designed for audience participation.

Credits: Producer, Gordon Hollingshead; directed and written by Jack

Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore; film editor, Harold McLernon.

LET'S SING A WESTERN SONG. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1947. 10

min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Sing and Be Happy Series)

Credits: Director, Harold James Moore.

LET'S SING AN OLD-TIME SONG. Vitaphone Corp., c1947. 10 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. Warner Bros.

Summary: Stories behind the writing of favorite songs, such as "The

Band Played on," "A Bicycle Built for Two," and "Come, Josephine, in

My Flying Machine." Designed for audience participation.

Credits: Directed and written by Jack Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore.

LET'S SING GRANDFATHER'S FAVORITES. Vitaphone Corp., c1948. 10 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. (Memories from Melody Lane) Warner Bros.

Credits: Directed and written by Jack Scholl; narrator, Art Gilmore.

LET'S TALK IT OVER. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1943. 1 reel, sd.

LET'S VISIT A POULTRY FARM. Coronet, c1948, 10 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: A young girl visits a poultry farm where she sees chickens,

ducks, and turkeys. She sees the pullet range; observes how eggs are

gathered, sorted and packed; and learns to appreciate the importance

of a hatchery. For primary and intermediate grades.

Credits: Educational collaborator, I. Owen Foster.

MP4278.

THE LETTER. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1940. 11 reels, sd. A Warner

Bros.-First National picture. By W. Somerset Maugham.

Credits: Director, William Wyler; screenplay, Howard Koch; music,

Max Steiner.

A LETTER FOR EVIE. Loew's Inc., c1945. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 9 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the story "The

Adventure of a Ready Letter Writer," by Blanche Brace.

Credits: Producer, William H. Wright; director, Jules Dassin;

screenplay, De Vallon Scott, Alan Friedman; music score, George

Bassman; film editor, Chester W. Schaeffer.

LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN. Rampart Productions, Inc. Released by

Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., c1948. 90 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. Based on "Brief einer Unbekannten," by Stefan Zweig.

Summary: Shows the undying love of a young girl for the pianist who

betrays and forgets her. Setting, Vienna in the 1890's.

Credits: Producer, John Houseman; director, Max Opuls; screenplay,

Howard Koch; orchestrations, David Tamkin; music score, Daniele

Amfitheatrof; film editor, Ted J. Kent.

Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel Journet,

Art Smith.

Appl. author: Universal Pictures Co., Inc.

A LETTER FROM BATAAN. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1942. 14 min., sd.

Credits: Producer, William C. Thomas; director, William H. Pine;

screenplay, Maxwell Shane; music score, Daniele Amfitheatrof;

editor, Howard A. Smith.

A LETTER FROM CAIRO. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1941. 1 reel,

sd. (Lowell Thomas' Magic Carpet of Movietone)

Credits: Producer, Truman Talley; continuity, David Cooper;

narrator, Lowell Thomas; music score, L. De Francesco.

A LETTER FROM IRELAND. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1943. 2,002 ft., sd.

(A Paramount Headliner)

Credits: Director, Brian Desmond Hurst.

LETTER TO A REBEL. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1948. 17 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(This Is America, no. 9)

Summary: Free enterprise and the capitalistic system are defended by

a small-town newspaper editor in a letter to his son, a college

student who fancies himself a rebel against the established order.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director, Larry O'Reilly; script,

Oviatt McConnell; narrator, Dwight Weist; music, Nathaniel Shilkret;

editor, David Cooper.

A LETTER TO THREE WIVES. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 103

min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on a story by John Klempner.

Summary: A comedy describing the manners and morals of suburbia.

When a hated rival sends a cryptic note to three wives telling them

that she has run off with one of their husbands, each wife examines

her marital security.

Credits: Producer, Sol C. Siegel; direction and screenplay, Joseph

L. Mankiewicz; adaptation, Vera Caspery; music, Alfred Newman;

editor, J. Watson Webb, Jr.

Cast: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul

Douglas.

LEVELING TRAINING. © George Fry & Associates, Inc.

Appl. author: William J. Biehl.

C–0. Four Body Motions. © title, descr., & 4 prints, 25Oct46;

MU1231.

C–16. Wrist Motion. © title, descr., & 2 prints, 29Dec46; MU1443.

C–17. Forearm Motion. © title, descr., & 2 prints, 29Dec46; MU1444.

C–18. Full Arm Motion, © title, descr., & 2 prints, 29Dec46; MU1445.

C–19. Full Body Motion. © title, descr., & 2 prints, 29Dec46;

MU1446.

C–23. Full Arm Motion. © title, descr., & 2 prints, 15Sep46; MU1274.

C–24. The Leveling Technique Applied to a Small Assembly Operation.

C–25. Combined Motions, © title, descr., & 4 prints, 29Dec46;

MU1447.

'LEVEN THIRTY SATURDAY NIGHT. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,

Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd.

LEW LEHR MAKES THE NEWS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 1

reel, sd. (Movietone's Dribble Puss Parade)

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; music score, L. de Francesco;

editor, Russ Sheilds.

LIBELED LADY. SEE Easy To Wed.

LIBERIA, AFRICA'S ONLY REPUBLIC. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 28 min.,

sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: Illustrates the growth and development of one of the

world's largest rubber plantations and shows the economic and social

progress of the Liberian people.

23Aug48; MU4423.

LIBERTE PROVISOIRE. SEE He Stayed for Breakfast.

LIBERTY ON PARADE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1943. 1 reel, sd.

THE LIBRARIAN. Burton Holmes Films, Inc., c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w,

16mm. (Your Life Work Series) Vocational Guidance Films, Inc.

LIEBESTRAUM. Musicolor, Inc. Released by United Artists, c1948. 1

reel, sd., color, 35mm. (David L. Loew Musicolor Short)

Summary: A musical short presenting "Liebestraum (A Dream of Love)"

by Franz Liszt.

Credits: Producer, Werner Janssen; orchestrations, Charles Miller.

LE LIÈVRE ET LA TORTUE. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1948. 1

reel, sd., b&w, 16mm. French version of "The Hare and the Tortoise."

Summary: Real animal characters enact the well-known fable about the

race between the tortoise and the hare.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP. The Archers. Released by United

Artists Corp., c1945. Presented by G. C. F. 149 min., sd., color.

Credits: Directed and written by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger;

music, Allan Gray; photographer, George Perinal; editor, John

Seabourne. Technicolor.

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE WICKED LADY SKELTON. SEE The Wicked Lady.

LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT-THIRTY. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1942.

7,575 ft., sd. From a play by Emlyn Williams.

Credits: Director, Irving Pichel; screenplay, Nunnally Johnson;

music, Alfred Newman.

LIFE BEGINS FOR ANDY HARDY. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 10 reels, sd., b&w. Based upon the characters

created by Aurania Rouverol.

Credits: Director, George B. Seitz; screenplay, Agnes Christine

Johnston; music direction, Georgie Stoll; film editor, Elmo Veron.

LIFE IN A DROP OF WATER. Coronet, c1947. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Credits: Collaborator, Robert T. Hatt.

MP2571.

LIFE IN A FISHING VILLAGE. Coronet, c1948. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows typical scenes in the harbor and town of Gravarna, a

fishing village on the west coast of Sweden, with emphasis on the

importance of the fishing fleet to the activities of the entire

village. For children and adults.

Credits: Educational collaborator, Clyde F. Kohn.

LIFE IN A NUDIST COLONY. Telafilm Co., c1949. 13 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows how the people live in the Spatzl Colony, off Lye

Lane, London, England.

Appl. author: Louis Erisman.

LIFE IN HOT, DRY LANDS (CALIFORNIA). Coronet, c1949. 11 min., sd.,

b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows the plant and animal life of the desert and the

activities of the nomadic people who struggle for an existence in

arid regions.

Credits: Educational collaborator, W. R. McConnell.

LIFE IN LOWLANDS (THE NETHERLANDS). Coronet, c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w,

16mm.

Summary: Shows the geographical features of the Netherlands and

explains how dikes are constructed, how the land is drained, and how

the land and canals complement each other for farming and shipping.

For intermediate, junior and senior high school grades.

Credits: Educational collaborator, Clyde Kohn.

LIFE IN MEDITERRANEAN LANDS (CALIFORNIA). Coronet, c1949. 11 min.,

sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows the effect that the "Mediterranean climate" has on

the lives and occupations of the inhabitants of Southern California.

Credits: Educational collaborator, W. R. McConnell.

LIFE IN OLD LOUISIANA (1830–1850). Erpi Classroom Films, Inc., c1941.

1 reel, sd. With teacher's handbook.

LIFE IN PARIS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1939. 972 ft., sd. (A

Columbia Tour)

Credits: Producer, André De La Varre; narrator, Len Sterling.

LIFE IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA. Coronet, c1949. 11 min.,

sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows how irrigation has made the dry soil of central

California rich and productive.

Credits: Educational collaborator, W. R. McConnell.

A LIFE IN YOUR HANDS. Time, Inc., c1948. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: A film to promote the Red Cross National Blood Program.

Shows the peacetime need for blood donations and illustrates how the

blood is collected, processed and distributed.

LIFE INSURANCE OCCUPATIONS. Vocational Guidance Films, Inc., c1948. 11

min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: An analysis of the operations of life insurance companies.

Appl. author: Arthur P. Twogood.

LIFE LINES.

Appl. author: W. D. Mattison.

LIFE LINES. Aetna Life Affiliated Companies for the Aetna Casualty &

Surety Co., c1948. 9 min., sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: A study of rules for safe swimming.

THE LIFE OF RILEY. 2,650 ft. each. A television series adapted from

the radio program. © Irving Brecher.

Credits: Producer and director, Irving Brecher; original story,

Irving Brecher, Reuben Ship, Alan Lipscott.

Cast: Jackie Gleason, Rosemary DeCamp, Gloria Winters, Lanny Rees.

2. Telecast Oct. 4, 1949; title, descr., & 2 prints, 5Dec49; LU2652.

3. Telecast Oct. 25, 1949; title, descr., & 3 prints, 5Dec49;

LU2653.

4. Telecast Oct. 11, 1949; title, descr., & 2 prints, 9Dec49;

LU2661.

5. Telecast Oct. 18, 1949; title, descr., & 2 prints, 9Dec49;

LU2662.

6. Telecast Nov. 8, 1949; title, descr., & 2 prints, 9Dec49; LU2663.

THE LIFE OF RILEY. Brecher Productions, Inc. Released through

Universal International Pictures Co., Inc., c1949. 87 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. Based on the radio program of the same title.

Summary: A comedy about the domestic trials of a goodhearted, but

bumbleheaded, factory hand. Setting, California.

Credits: Produced, directed and written by Irving Brecher; music,

Frank Skinner; film editor, Milton Carruth.

Cast: William Bendix, James Gleason, Rosemary DeCamp, Bill Goodwin,

Beulah Bondi.

15Mar49; LP2272.

THE LIFE OF THE BLESSED MOTHER CABRINI. Roma Film Co., c1946. 8 reels,

sd., 35mm.

Credits: Narrator, Cletus McCarthy.

LIFE ON A FRENCH FARM. Coronet, c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: A general picture of life in rural France, emphasizing the

importance of agriculture to the economy of France, and comparing

some of the problems of farming in France to those in the United

States. For elementary and high school grades.

Credits: Educational collaborator, W. R. McConnell.

LIFE (ON THE HORTOBAGY). Released by Jewel Productions, Inc., c1940. 8

reels, sd. Adapted from the story "Hortobagy."

Credits: Photographer, Laszlo Schaffer.

Appl. author: Georg Höllering.

LIFE SAVING FINGERS. Idaho Division, American Cancer Society, c1948.

21 min., si., color, 16mm.

Summary: A teaching film, intended to help women discover

abnormalities of the breast that might lead to cancer.

Appl. author: A. M. Popma.

MP3100.

LIFE THAT SATISFIES. C.O. Baptista Films, c1946. 700 ft., sd., 16mm.

MP1406.

LIFE WITH BABY. SEE The March of Time, 1946.

LIFE WITH BLONDIE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1945. 7 reels, sd. Based

upon the comic strip "Blondie" created by Chic Young.

Credits: Director, Abby Berlin; original screenplay, Connie Lee.

LIFE WITH FEATHERS. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1945. 7 min., sd.,

color. (Merrie Melodies)

Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Tedd Pierce; animation, Virgil

Ross; music director, Carl W. Stalling. Technicolor.

LIFE WITH FIDO. Terrytoons, Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd., color. (A

Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Connie Rasinski; story, John Foster. Technicolor.

LIFE WITH HENRY. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1941. 9 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer and director, Jay Theodore Reed; original story

and screenplay, Clifford Goldsmith, Don Hartman; music score,

Frederick Hollander; photographer, Leo Tover; film editor, William

Shea.

LIFEBOAT. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 9,500 ft., sd.

Credits: Director, Alfred Hitchcock; story, John Steinbeck;

screenplay, Jo Swerling; music director, Emil Newman.

LIGGAAMSVERDEDIGING TEEN SIEKTE. SEE Body Defenses Against Disease.

LIGHT AND POWER. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1947. 2 reels,

sd., b&w, 16mm. (Our Land and People Series)

Summary: The film shows that Faraday's dynamo, Morse's telegraph,

Bell's telephone and Edison's incandescent lamp are inventions that

marked turning points in man's use of electric power, and emphasizes

the value of electricity as a tool of modern research.

Credits: Producers, Edmund Reek, Boris Vermont; script, Robert M.

Hertzberg; narrator, Jackson Beck; 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; music, L. DeFrancesco; film

editors, John Oser, Lawrence Katz.

LIGHT AND SHADOW. Young America Films, Inc., c1949. 11 min., sd., b&w,

16mm.

Summary: Explains the basic principles or light transmission,

demonstrates reflection of light, and defines the terms transparent,

translucent, and opaque. For elementary school science classes.

Credits: Advisers, Gerald S. Craig, Helen Warrin.

Appl. author: Leonard Peck.

THE LIGHT IN YOUR LIFE. Ralph G. Wolff Studios for the Lamp Dept.,

General Electric Co. 25 min., sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: Through the experiences of a little girl, the film tells

with photography and animated sequences the story of the wide

variety of G-E lamps and the accuracy with which they are made.

Cast: Eilene Janssen.

MU4189.

LIGHT IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT. Walt Disney Productions, c1945. Presented

by National Better Light Better Sight Bureau. 1 reel, color, 16mm.

THE LIGHT OF DAY. Presented by Firestone.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Picture Service, Inc.

prints, 6Jun42; MU12548.

THE LIGHT OF WESTERN STARS. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 7 reels,

sd. Based on Zane Grey's book.

Credits: Producer, Harry Sherman; director, Lesley Selander;

screenplay, Norman Houston; music score, Victor Young; photography,

Russell Harlan; film editor, Sherman A. Rose.

THE LIGHT THAT FAILED. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 10 reels, sd.

Based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling.

Credits: Producer and director, William A. Wellman; screenplay,

Robert Carson; photography, Theodore Sparkuhl, Guy Bennett; film

editor, Thomas Scott.

LIGHTHOUSE. PRC Pictures, Inc., c1947. 6 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm. A

Sunset production.

Credits: Producer, Franklin Gilbert; director, Frank Wisbar;

original story and adaptation, Don Martin; screenplay, Robert

Churchill; music, Ernest Gold; film editor, Robert Jahns.

Cast: Don Castle, June Lang, John Litel.

LIGHTHOUSE KEEPING. Walt Disney Productions, c1946. 7 min., sd.,

color, 35mm.

Credits: Director, Jack Hannah; story, Harry Reeves, Jesse Marsh;

animation, Hal King, Bob Carlson, Judge Whitaker, Fred Jones; music,

Oliver Wallace.

LIGHTNIN' IN THE FOREST. Republic Productions, Inc., c1948. 58 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A young girl's craving for excitement is cured when she

becomes involved with a group of gangsters.

Credits: Producer, Sidney Picker; director, George Blair; original

story, J. Benton Cheney; screenplay, John K. Butler; music director,

Mort Glickman; film editor, Irving M. Schoenberg.

Cast: Lynne Roberts, Donald Barry, Warren Douglas.

LIGHTNING RAIDERS. P.R.C. Pictures, Inc., c1945. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sam Newfield; original

story and screenplay, Elmer Clifton; music director, Lee Zahler;

film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.

LIGHTNING RAIDERS. P.R.C. Pictures, Inc., c1946. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sam Newfield; original

story and screenplay, Elmer Clifton; music director, Lee Zahler.

LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942. 936 ft., sd.

(Famous Bands, no. 3)

Credits: Producer and director, Ted Lloyd; story, David O. Alber;

narrator, Alan Courtney; music supervision, Sam Tabak; cameramen,

George Hinners, Edward Hyland; editor, Harry Glass.

LIGHTS FANTASTIC. c1942. 1 reel, sd. (Merrie Melodies) Leon

Schlesinger Productions.

Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; story, Dave Monahan; animation,

Gil Turner; music director, Carl W. Stalling.

LIGHTS OF OLD SANTA FE. c1944. Presented by Republic Pictures. 8

reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Harry Grey; director, Frank McDonald;

original screenplay, Gordon Kahn, Bob Williams; music director,

Morton Scott; photographer, Reggie Lanning; film editor, Ralph

Dixon.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

LES LIGNES DE DEFENSE DU CORPS HUMAIN CONTRE LA MALADIE. Encyclopaedia

Films, Inc., c1946. 1 reel, sd., 16mm.

LIKE FATHER—LIKE SON. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1946. 1 reel, sd.,

35mm. (Grantland Rice Sportlight)

Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing.

A LIKELY STORY. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1947. 88 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Suggested by a story by Alexander Kenedi.

Credits: Producer, Richard H. Berger; director, H. C. Potter;

written by Bess Taffel; music, Leigh Harline; music director, C.

Bakaleinikoff; editor, Harry Marker.

Cast: Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Lanny Rees, Sam Levene, Dan

Tobin.

LI'L ABNER. c1940. Presented by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. 78 min., sd.

From an original story by Al Capp. Based upon the United Feature

comic "Li'l Abner."

Credits: Director, Albert S. Rogell; story, Ben Oakland, Milton

Drake, Milton Berle; screenplay, Charles Kerr, Tyler Johnson; music

director, Lud Gluskin; editors, Otto Ludwig, Donn Hayes.

LI'L ABNER. SEE

A Pee-kool-yar-sit-chee-ay-shun.

Kickapoo Juice.

Porkyliar Piggy.

Sadie Hawkins Day.

LI'L LIZA JANE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1943. 1

reel, sd.

LILLIAN RUSSELL. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1940. 11,433 ft.,

sd.

Summary: A musical short featuring "Drink to Me Only with Thine