Summary: A picture based on the life of the composer, Nicolò_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

Paganini. Includes musical compositions of Beethoven and Tartini as

well as those of Paganini. Setting is Italy during the Napoleonic

period.

Credits: Producer, R. J. Minney; director, Bernard Knowles;

screenplay, Roland Pertwee; music director, Louis Levy; incidental

score, Henry Geehl; film editor, Alfred Roome.

Cast: Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent, Dennis Price,

Cecil Parker.

THE MAGIC CARPET. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1942.

1 reel, sd.

THE MAGIC FLUKE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1949. 7 min., sd., color,

35mm. (Fox and Crow Cartoon)

Credits: Executive producer, Steve Bosustow; director, John Hubley;

story, Sol Barzman; music, Del Castillo; animation, Bob Cannon,

Willis Pyle, Rudy Larriva, Pat Matthews.

MAGIC IN THE AIR. Presented by Chevrolet. 1 reel, sd., b&w.

prints, 15Jan42; MU12054.

MAGIC IN THE KITCHEN. c1946. 1 reel, 16mm.

Appl. author: Herbert Kerkow.

MAGIC IS THE MOONLIGHT. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1945. 1 reel, sd.

MAGIC MINERAL. SEE Variety Views, no. 153.

MAGIC OF MAGNOLIAS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

THE MAGIC OF STEAM; the steam turbine. Presented by Allis Chalmers

Mfg. Co. 2 reels each, b&w.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Picture Service, Inc.

14Oct42; MU12942.

MAGIC OF YOUTH. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1945. 1 reel, sd.,

color. (Movietone Adventures)

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; narrator, Paul Douglas; music score,

L. de Francesco; photographer, Jack Kuhne; film editor, Russ

Sheilds. Technicolor.

MAGIC ON A STICK. Loew's Inc., c1945. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 855 ft., sd., b&w. (John Nesbitt's Passing

Parade)

Credits: Director, Cyril Endfield; original story and screenplay,

Charles Larson; music score, Max Terr; film editor, Tom Biggart.

THE MAGIC PENCIL. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.,

c1940. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd. (A Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Volney White; story, John Foster; music, Philip

A. Scheib.

THE MAGIC SHELL. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.,

c1941. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd. (A Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Mannie Davis; story, John Foster; music, Philip

A. Scheib.

MAGIC STRENGTH. Screen Gems, Inc., c1944. 1 reel, sd. (Phantasy)

Credits: Director, Bob Wickersham; story, Dun Roman.

MAGIC TOWN. Robert Riskin Productions, Inc., c1947. 103 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. Based on a story by Robert Riskin and Joseph Krumgold.

Credits: Produced and written by Robert Riskin; director, William A.

Wellman; music score, Roy Webb; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff;

film editors, Sherman Todd, Richard G. Wray.

Cast: James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith, Ned Sparks, Wallace

Ford.

MAGICALULU. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1945. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Jack Ward.

MAGNESIUM, METAL FROM THE SEA. Presented by the Dow Chemical Co. 3

reels, b&w.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Organization, Inc.

MU14653.

MAGNESIUM, METAL FROM THE SEA. SEE This is Magnesium.

THE MAGNET. Gateway Productions, Inc., c1949. 10 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

(The Pirro Series, no. 5)

Summary: Pat shows his puppet, Pirro, how a magnet works.

Credits: Directed and written by Alvin J. Gordon.

©Gateway Productions, Inc.; 26Jan49 (in notice: 1948); LP2342.

MAGNETISM. Coronet, c1947. 12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Credits: Collaborator, N. E. Bingham.

MP2507.

MAGNETS. Young America Films, Inc., c1946. 12 min. With A Teacher's

Guide.

MAGNETS AND MAGNETISM. De Forest's Training, Inc., c1948. 100 feet,

b&w, 16mm. (Radio Electronics. Reel lesson 3)

Summary: Explains the basic principles of magnetism as an aid to the

understanding of the operation of the various magnetic applications

in electronic devices.

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. c1942. 88 min., sd. A Mercury production.

From the novel by Booth Tarkington.

Credits: Screenplay, production and direction, Orson Welles; music,

Bernard Herrmann; photographer, Stanley Cortez; film editor, Robert

Wise.

MAGNIFICENT DOLL. Hallmark Productions, Inc., c1946. 95 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. A Jack H. Skirball-Bruce Manning production.

Credits: Producer, Jack H. Skirball; director, Frank Borzage;

original story and screenplay, Irving Stone; music, H. J. Salter;

orchestrations, David Tamkin; film editor, Ted J. Kent.

Cast: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Burgess Meredith.

THE MAGNIFICENT DOPE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1942. 7,500

ft., sd.

Credits: Director, Walter Lang; original story, Joseph Schrank;

screenplay, George Seaton; music director, Emil Newman.

THE MAGNIFICENT ROGUE. Republic Pictures Corp., c1946. 74 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer, Wm. J. O'Sullivan; director, Albert S.

Rogell; original story, Gerald Drayson Adams, Richard Sokolove;

screenplay, Dane Lussier; adaptation, Sherman L. Lowe; music

director, Mort Glickman; film editor, Richard L. Van Enger.

Cast: Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Gerald Mohr, Stephanie

Bachelor, Adele Mara.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

MAHARAJA. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1943. 1 reel,

sd.

THE MAID. Charles W. Wilmert, c1949. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Illustrates the value of "The Maid," a device designed to

hold bedding in place.

A MAID MADE MAD. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1943. 1,410 ft., sd.

Credits: Director, Del Lord; story and screenplay, Elwood Ullman,

Monty Collins.

MAID TROUBLE. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 18 min., sd.

Credits: Producer, George Bilson; direction and screenplay, Harry

Edwards; film editor, Edward W. Williams.

MAIL DOG. Walt Disney Productions, c1947. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm. (A

Walt Disney Pluto)

Credits: Director, Charles Nichols; story, Eric Gurney, Bill de la

Torre; animation, George Nicholas, George Kreisl, Jerry Hathcock,

Jack Boyd; music, Oliver Wallace. Technicolor.

MAIL TROUBLE. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1942. 18 min., sd.

Credits: Producer, Bert Gilroy; director, Lloyd French; story,

George Jeske, Charles E. Roberts; film editor, Mark Robson.

THE MAILMAN. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration

with Paul R. Hanna, c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

MAILMAN BLUES. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1942. 1

reel, sd.

MAILMAN OF SNAKE RIVER. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 1

reel.

LA MAIN DU DIABLE (THE DEVIL'S HAND). c1946. 8 reels, sd., 35mm. First

published Paris, France, date unknown. English titles.

Credits: Producer, Maurice Tourneur; scenario, Jean-Paul Le Chanois;

music, Roger Dumas.

Appl. author: Maurice Tourneur Films.

MAIN STREET AFTER DARK. Loew's Inc., c1944. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 6 reels, sd., b&w.

Credits: Producer, Jerry Bresler; director, Edward Cahn; original

story, John C. Higgins; screenplay, Karl Kamb, John C. Higgins;

music score, George Bassman; film editor, Harry Komer.

THE MAIN STREET KID. Republic Productions, Inc., c1948. 64 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm. Based on a radio play by Caryl Coleman.

Summary: A small-town printer with an interest in mental telepathy

makes use of his hobby to help his daughter and her sweetheart.

Credits: Associate producer, Sidney Picker; director, R. G.

Springsteen; screenplay, Jerry Sackheim; music director, Morton

Scott; film editor, Tony Martinelli.

Cast: Al Pearce, Janet Martin, Alan Mowbray, Adele Mara, Arlene

Harris.

MAIN STREET LAWYER, c1939. Presented by Republic Pictures. 8 reels,

sd. Based on original story by Harry Hamilton.

Credits: Associate producer, Robert North; director, Dudley Murphy;

screenplay, Joseph Krumgold; adaptation, Devery Freeman; music

director, Cy Feuer; photographer, Jack Marta; film editor, William

Morgan.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

MAIN STREET ON THE MARCH! Loew's Inc., c1942. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 1,768 ft., sd., sepia.

Credits: Director, Edward Cahn; original story and screenplay, Karl

Kamb; narrator, John Nesbitt; music score, David Snell; film editor,

Harry Komer.

MAIN STREET TODAY. Loew's Inc., c1944. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Director, Edward Cahn; original story and screenplay, Karl

Kamb, Julian Harmon; narrator, John Nesbitt; music score, David

Raksin; film editor, Tom Biggart.

MAIN STREET. U. S. A.—1942. SEE The March of Time, v. 8, no. 4.

MAINE SAIL. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 8 min., sd.,

color, 35mm. (Movietone Adventures)

Summary: Vacation highlights in Maine including scenes of Boothbay

Harbor, old churches at Wiscasset, a clambake at Kennebunk Beach,

and sailing at Penobscot Bay.

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; directed and written by Tom

Cummiskey; narrator, George C. Putnam; music score, L. DeFrancesco;

film editor, Valeska Weidig.

MAINTAIN THE RIGHT. Loew's Inc., with the cooperation of the Royal

Canadian Mounted Police, c1940. 950 ft., sd., b&w. (A Pete Smith

Specialty)

Credits: Directors, Joe Newman, Willard Van Der Veer; screenplay, E.

Maurice Adler, Jerry Hoffman; film editor, Philip Anderson.

MAINTAINING CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., c1947.

14 min., sd., b&w, 16mm. (Teacher Education Series, film 3)

Summary: By contrasting different methods of handling the same

class, the film explores techniques for maintaining discipline and

stimulating the interest of students. Prepared to accompany the

textbook, "Student Teaching," by Dr. Raleigh Schorling.

MAISIE GETS HER MAN. Loew's Inc., c1942. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Based upon the characters

created by Wilson Collison.

Credits: Producer, J. Walter Ruben; director, Roy Del Ruth; original

story, Betty Reinhardt, Ethel Hill; screenplay, Betty Reinhardt,

Mary C. McCall, Jr.; music score, Lennie Hayton; film editor,

Fredrick Y. Smith.

MAISIE GOES TO RENO. Loew's Inc., c1944. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 9 reels, sd., b&w. Based upon the characters

created by Wilson Collison.

Credits: Producer, George Haight; director, Harry Beaumont; original

story, Harry Ruby, James O'Hanlon; screenplay, Mary C. McCall, Jr.;

music score, David Snell; film editor, Frank E. Hull.

MAISIE WAS A LADY. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 8 reels, sd., b&w.

Credits: Producer, J. Walter Ruben; director, Edwin L. Marin;

original story, Betty Reinhardt, Myles Connolly; screenplay, Betty

Reinhardt, Mary C. McCall, Jr.; music score, David Snell; film

editor, Fredrick Y. Smith.

MAJESTY OF YELLOWSTONE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1948. 8

min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Movietone Adventures)

Summary: A pictorial study of Yellowstone National Park, with

emphasis on the work of the Rangers of the National Park Service.

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; narrator, George Carson Putnam;

music, L. DeFrancesco; film editor, Arthur Lincer.

THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1942. 10 reels, sd.

Suggested by a play by Edward Childs Carpenter from a story by

Fannie Kilbourne.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Hornblow, Jr.; director, Billy Wilder;

written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder; music score, Robert

Emmett Dolan; editor, Doane Harrison.

MAJOR BARBARA. Released by United Artists, c1941. Presented by Gabriel

Pascal. 13 reels, sd. By George Bernard Shaw.

Credits: Producer and director, Gabriel Pascal; scenario and

dialogue, George Bernard Shaw; music, William Walton; music

director, Muir Mathieson; cameraman, Ronald Neame; film editor,

Charles Frend.

MAKA LA PUA. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1943. 1

reel, sd.

MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1949. 79 min., sd.,

b&w, 35 mm. Based on the Al Jarvis and Martin Block radio programs

of the same title.

Summary: An all-star comedy about a "Musical Mystery Contest."

Credits: Producer, Ted Richmond; director, Joseph Santley; story,

Albert Duffy; screenplay, Albert Duffy, Karen DeWolf; film editor,

Jerome Thoms.

Cast: Jerome Courtland, Ruth Warrick, Ron Randell, Virginia Welles,

Al Jarvis.

MAKE MINE FREEDOM. Loew's Inc., c1948. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm. (An

MGM Cartoon)

Summary: In this cartoon, the basic freedoms enjoyed in America are

enumerated, and citizens are warned against adoption of Utopian

schemes that may cost the nation its liberty.

Credits: Music composition and arrangement, Scott Bradley, Paul J.

Smith.

MAKE MINE LAUGHS. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1949. 64 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Summary: A vaudeville revue which presents a series of comedy and

musical acts including sequences clipped from old RKO features and

shorts.

Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director, Richard O. Fleischer;

Leon Errol sequence written and directed by Hal Yates; music

director, Constantin Bakaleinikoff; film editors, Robert Swink,

Edward W. Williams.

Cast: Ray Bolger, Anne Shirley, Dennis Day, Joan Davis, Jack Haley.

MAKE MINE MONICA. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1949. 11 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. (Pacemaker Series)

Credits: Directed and written by Justin Herman; editor, Robert

Blauvelt.

MAKE MINE MUSIC. Walt Disney Productions, c1946. 75 min., sd., color,

35mm.

Credits: Production supervision, Joe Grant; directors, Jack Kinney,

Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Bob Cormack, Josh Meador; story,

Homer Brightman; animation, Les Clark, George Rowley; music

director, Charles Wolcott.

Cast: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Benny Goodman, Andrews Sisters,

Jerry Colonna.

MAKE MY COFFEE BLACK. Video Varieties Corp. 3 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: "Make My Coffee Black" is sung by The Striders, a Negro

male quartet.

MU4535.

MAKE WAY FOR YOUTH. Transfilm, Inc., c1947. 23 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Credits: Director, Marvin Rothenberg; scenario, Basil Beyea and

Burton Rowles, Jr.; narration, Melvyn Douglas.

MAKE YOU A GOOD WIFE. SEE My Own True Love.

MAKE YOUR OWN BED; if you don't...? Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.,

c1944. 82 min., sd. A Warner Bros.-First National picture. From a

play by Harvey J. O'Higgins and Harriet Ford.

Credits: Producer, Alex Gottlieb; director, Peter Godfrey;

screenplay, Francis Swann, Edmund Joseph; adaptation, Richard Weil;

music, H. Roemheld; music director, Leo F. Forbstein; photographer,

Robert Burks.

MAKERS OF DESTINY. Hullinger Productions, c1947. 2 reels, sd., color,

16mm.

Credits: Producer and director, Edwin Ware Hullinger.

MAKING A CLAY PORTRAIT. Vanguard Productions, c1942. 1 reel, sd., b&w,

16mm.

Appl. author: Carl L. Kahn.

MAKING A LITHOGRAPH. Lester H. Kohs, c1941. 1 reel.

MAKING AN INDIAN TIPI. Boy Scouts of America, c1948. 8 min., sd., b&w,

16mm.

Summary: Demonstrates that the making of a tipi is not only a

practical project but also an adventure in Indian lore.

MAKING BOOKS. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration

with Luther H. Evans, c1947. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

MAKING BRICKS FOR HOUSES. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1947.

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

Summary: The story of brick making. The film shows the processes by

which shale is converted into finished bricks: preparation of raw

materials; forming and cutting bricks; baking in the kiln; and

shipping of the finished bricks. For primary and middle grades.

Credits: Collaborator, R. K. Hursh.

MAKING COTTON CLOTHING. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1946. 1

reel, sd., 16mm.

Credits: Collaborator, Isabel B. Wingate.

MAKING ELECTRICITY. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1949. 11

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

Summary: Describes the construction of a miniature generator and

explains how electricity is generated at a large hydro-electric

plant. For middle and primary grades.

Credits: Collaborator, S. Ralph Powers.

MAKING GLASS FOR HOUSES. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., c1948.

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

Summary: The mining and processing of the raw materials of which

glass is made; the weighing, mixing, and melting of these raw

materials in a glass plant; the cooling and cutting of the glass;

and the glazing of windows. A teaching film for primary and middle

grades.

Credits: Collaborator, F. V. Tooley.

MAKING INDIAN HAND PRINTED CLOTH. c1941. 2 reels.

MAKING INDIAN MOCCASINS. Boy Scouts of America, c1948. 17 min., sd.,

b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Ben Hunt shows the steps in making a pair of moccasins,

from the selection of the hide to the first "try-on".

THE MAKING OF A MURAL. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in

collaboration with Thomas Hart Benton, c1947. 1 reel, sd., color,

16mm.

MAKING SHOES. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration

with A. S. Knowles, c1947. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Credits: Script, J. Stanley McIntosh.

MAKING THE GRADE. Presented by Chevrolet. 1 min., sd., b&w.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Picture Service, Inc.

descr., & 44 prints, 10Oct40; MU10533.

MAKING THE MOST OF SCHOOL. Coronet, c1948. 10 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows how the individual student can make the most of his

school experience, and explains the purpose of rules and

restrictions.

Credits: Educational collaborator, Frederick G. Neel.

MAKING THE VARSITY. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 10 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. (Grantland Rice Sportlight)

Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing.

MAKING WELDED PIPE LINE. Presented by the A. O. Smith Corp.

Appl. author: The Jam Handy Organization, Inc.

MU15348.

THE MALAY PENINSULA; people and products. Coronet, c1948. 11 min.,

sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows the inter-relation between native customs and

European influences; depicts methods of transportation; and

describes the modern industrial methods used in the production of

tin, copra, rubber, rice, and tea. For geography classes in the

sixth and seventh grades and for junior and senior high school

classes in social studies and economics.

Credits: Collaborator, John H. Garland.

MP3101.

MALAYA. Loew's Inc., c1949. 95 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. An MGM picture.

Based on a story by Manchester Boddy.

Summary: A reporter and a convict lead a desperate war-time mission

to smuggle vital rubber out of Japanese-occupied Malaya.

Credits: Producer, Edwin H. Knopf; director, Richard Thorpe;

screenplay, Frank Fenton; music, Bronislau Kaper; film editor, Ben

Lewis.

Cast: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Valentina Cortesa, Sydney

Greenstreet, John Hodiak.

THE MALE ANIMAL. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1942. 101 min., sd.

From the play by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent.

Credits: Associate producer, Wolfgang Reinhardt; director, Elliott

Nugent; screenplay, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Stephen

Morehouse Avery; film editor, Thomas Richards.

MALE ORDER. Featurettes, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Words and music, Harold Raymond.

MALIBU BEACH PARTY. The Vitaphone Corp., c1940. 1 reel, sd. (Merrie

Melodies)

Credits: Story, Jack Miller; animation, Gil Turner.

MALICE IN SLUMBERLAND. Distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942.

582 ft., sd. (Phantasy, no. 21)

Credits: Producer, Dave Fleischer; director, Alec Geiss; animation,

Ray Patterson; music, Ed Kilfeather.

MALICE IN THE PALACE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1949. 16 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm.

Summary: The adventures of the Three Stooges in the Orient.

Credits: Producer and director, Jules White; story and screenplay,

Felix Adler; film editor, Edwin Bryant.

Cast: The Three Stooges.

THE MALTESE FALCON. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1941. 100 min., sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Henry Blanke; direction and screenplay,

John Huston; film editor, Thomas Richards.

MAMA DON'T ALLOW IT. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

MAMA DON'T WANT NO MUSIC. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,

Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd.

MAMA, I WANNA MAKE RHYTHM. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,

Inc., c1943. 1 reel, sd.