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The Porter Wagoner Show No. 38
Wagoner thanks audience for patronizing sponsors as gap-toothed comedian Speck Rhodes wanders in wearing his trademark checkered suit with bow tie and bowler hat. Rhodes makes joke about Campbell slapping people, saying he can't afford to lose any more teeth. Rhodes tells a corny old-fashioned joke about drinking. Backed by The Wagonmasters, Rhodes dances (well, twitches anyway) and sings a comedy version of "I'm Moving On."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 38
Wagoner summons Little to plug the show's souvenir booklet ("folio #2") containing songs and stories, available for fifty cents from the address on your screen.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 38
Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Wagoner plays guitar and sings the week's sacred song, Hank Williams' "I Saw The Light." MS Buck Trent.
French Quit United Nation: Walk Out Over Algeria Debate
French Quit United Nation: Walk Out Over Algeria Debate TLSs representatives in UN General Assembly; MSs France's Foreign Minister ANTOINE PINAY speaking to the UN GA, "threatening complete rupture" before vacating the podium & leading his delegation from the assembly floor. The assembly voted that the Algerian dispute with France should be placed on the agenda, something France violently opposed due it being an internal affair. CU/TLSs empty seats. "Meanwhile, in North Africa, France's colonial difficulties continue": MSs of Sultan BEN ARAFA (Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa aka Mohammed Ben Aarafa) of Morocco boarding a plane, being escorted by French military generals as he departs for exile.
Century Plaza, June 23, 1967
Century Plaza, June 23, 1967
All the Chief Executives Since the Screen was Born. United States Presidents 1901 - 1937
All the Chief Executives Since the Screen was Born. United States Presidents 1901 - 1937
Glamour Girls of 1943
The United States Government presents a wartime propaganda film lauding war work for white women during World War Two. Distributed & exhibited under the auspices of the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. (Rosie the riveter)
Focus on the 30s
Entertainment of the 1930s: Charlie McCarthy & Edward Bergen, Orson Welles, newsreels, etc.
Focus on the 30s
Technological advances in aviation, engineering, construction, transportation, etc, 1930s.
Focus on the 30s
Recreation, entertainment, and pastimes of the 1930s American public.
Atomic Tests in Nevada
"The United States Atomic Energy Commission presents..." "Atomic Tests in Nevada: The Story of AEC's Continental Proving Ground." Credits. Car driving around a curve in pre-dawn hours on U.S. Highway 91. Headlights sign on sign for St. George, Utah. Car drives past Twin Oaks Motel. Overview of St. George, Utah in the morning. Church steeple clock: 5:00 AM. Car drives past Twin Oaks Motel. Adult Caucasian milkman walking to his truck. Milkman opening back door of truck and putting milk basket inside. Police officer on patrol on foot, checking store door, looking through window. UTOCO Gas station attendant filling up car. Pre-dawn view of street in St. George; light in the sky, but streetlights still on. Church steeple clock: 5:00 AM; white flash appears. Milkman turns to look. Policeman looks. Gas station attendant looks. Milkman closes door to truck. Gas station attendant continues filling car. Adult male narrator says, "Just another atomic test...nothing to get excited about anymore."
Crissie Sheridan
Filmed in Edison's "Black Maria" studio in West Orange, New Jersey. A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and feet appear to be bare. She twirls the fabric around her body so that she appears to be imitating a butterfly or humming bird. *** This is an excellent example of the use of moving pictures. An act like this exploited the novelity of motion on film. ***
Charity Ball
Filmed in Edison's New York City studio. A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as exhibition dancing. The set is bare, without backdrops or props. The couple's feet are not evident at times in the frame, and the dance appears to have been shot in relatively slow motion. ***Slow motion photography is not evident until the man jumps in the air and clicks his heels together. He hangs in the air for a second, indicating slow motion.***
Betsy Ross Dance
Filmed June 18, 1903 in the Biograph New York City studio. Performer: Little Anita. Opens on a bare stage with a painted backdrop of an interior theater wall and pillar. From screen right, a woman twirls onstage and performs an enthusiastic dance. It appears she is a woman dressed to look like a little girl, in a short, ruffled dress and sash, tights, and ballet slippers, with long, dark hair worn in curls. Her movements include some with an apparent ballet influence, such as pirouettes and walking on pointe. She also performs various feet and leg movements, leg kicks both to the front and side, spins, and twirls, all the while flouncing and lifting her skirt and smiling coquettishly. She ends by throwing a kiss to the camera as she twirls offstage.
Re-enactment of Execution of Czologosz (McKinley's Assassin)
Re-enactment of the execution by electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, "faithfully carried out from the description of an eye witness" according to the original Edison film catalogue. "Grotesque" would be a good descriptor.
World's 11th Plowing Contest
World's 11th Plowing Contest Ontario, Canada Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson arrives by helicopter at the airport in Ontario, Canada for the world's 11th Plowing Contest. MS - Flags of different countries that are represented in this contest. CUS - Prime Minister Pearson standing by a 2-ton globe. MS - Mr Pearson walking around the Fair Grounds and checking out small tractors. MS - Farmers plowing from different countries plowing up the field. CUS - The winner is from Sweden and he is holding his trophy.
President Johnson Attends Rites for Mayor Wagner's Wife
Dignitaries and the humble pay a last tribute to Mrs. Robert Wagner, wife of Mayor Wagner of New York, who is dead after a long illness. The President and Cardinal Spellman lead the mourners at the funeral. New York, NY Cardinal Spellman with hat in hand walking up to the Presbyterian Church. MS - President Johnson getting out of a car. MS - Throngs of people standing behind police traffic horses. MS - Pallbearers carrying the coffin into the church. Mrs. Susan Edwards (mother to Mrs. Wagner) walking into the church accompanied by her two grandsons and Mayor Wagner. MS - The pallbearers carrying the coffin out of church. CUS - President Johnson shaking hands with Mayor Wagner. Aerial shot - The funeral procession walking down the street behind the casket,.
Excerpts from the Army-McCarthy Hearings
Excerpts from the Army-McCarthy Hearings
Lyndon B. Johnson Campaign Ad
Ku Klux Klan members wearing hoods and robes, night, burning cross superimposed over them. VO: "'We represent the majority of the people in Alabama, who hate ni**erism, Catholicism, Judaism, and all the isms of the whole world.' So said Robert Creole of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. He also said, 'I like Barry Goldwater. He needs our help.'" Klansmen at night, marching in field.
Focus on the 30s
The Bonus Army March, The Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, the repeal of Prohibition, implementation of the New Deal, Adolf Hitler rises to power, winds of war in Europe, Japan invades China, and the Spanish Civil War. Ah yes, the 1930s.
Focus on the 30s
The Great Depression, the New Deal, American communists come out of the woodwork, natural disasters wreck havoc, race relations in openly racist America, collective bargaining, strikes and labor unions.
Focus on the 30s
Brief profiles of the deeds performed by Franklin Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Dillinger, Al Capone, Howard Hughes, King Edward VII, and Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Focus on the 50's - International Conflicts
Focus on the 50's - How we lived
Focus on the 50's - How we lived