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- On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama.
- As a part of Narvik's 50th anniversary in 1951, this film gives you historical views all the way from when the city was founded, and got its city status in 1902.
- A video "marriage manual" explains differences between sexes.
- A filmed record of a typical '50s burlesque act, complete with strippers and baggy-pants comics.
- An African-American family in Georgia works to save money for a power saw. Includes depictions of timber harvest techniques and process. Film made in 1952 by the United States Information Service and intended for foreign audiences.
- In the village of Tirangole in Sudan, Africa, native boy Lonuha prepares to become a man of the Iago clan by joining in the annual hunt. While the women of the tribe care for the children, carry water from wells, prepare the food and gather wild herbs, the men perform traditional pre-hunt rituals. One of the tribe's many primeval customs involves Ibwoni, the "witch doctor," treating the ill by bleeding them and burying the blood in the earth. In another custom, children have their two front teeth "gouged out with a knife" as soon as permanent teeth grow in. Scars, collars and disfigurations are common adornments and badges of beauty. All the activities are watched over by Lomiluk, the rainmaker and spiritual head of Tirangole. This year, there is plenty of water and the cattle and goat herds are healthy. To prepare for the hunt, the men practice spear-throwing. The blacksmith creates a spear especially for Lonuha, and as tradition demands, the boy spears a cow in the jugular vein, then drinks the blood. Later, the "Father of the Land," a woman named Abolone who holds a hereditary position of great spiritual power, mixes a magic brew of charcoal, earth and saliva. Soon, about two hundred men from all of the clans of Tirangole gather for the hunt, the scars on their shoulders connoting how many men they have killed. Today, the warriors tell tales of past prowess, while Lonuha grows anxious to hunt. Finally, the hunting party fans out in a circle that will eventually span about ten square miles. They move past water buffalo, lions, scorpions, hyenas, snakes and crocodiles in their pursuit of giraffes, bush-bucks and antelope. Lonuha is able to prove his masculinity when he spears an antelope, and feels great pride when he brings meat back to his mother. Later, the women of the tribe gather fish from the river in nets while breaking into jealous arguments. Months later, the villagers work diligently to prepare food and supplies, but a dangerous drought moves in. Lonuha, his heart heavy with fear for his clan, notes the dry river bed and runs to Lomiluk for help. The rainmaker performs a ritual at the rain shrine, in which a goat is strangled and its stomach contents mixed with beer, earth and saliva to form a sacrifice to the ancestors. After a wild rain dance, Lonuha watches with satisfaction as a storm arrives, signaling a good year of peace and plenty.
- Title changed to "Flamenco" when it was first released in the USA in 1954, this is a program of Spanish songs and dances with the emphasis on "flamenco" or gypsy contributions. The USA version has an English narrative written by Walter Terry, the dance critic of the "New York Herald Tribune" newspaper. Heading the cast are Antonio (I), Pilar Lopez and Maria Luz, three of Spain's foremost dancers of the time, accompanied by members of the Ballet Espanol. Filmed in Cinefotocolor in which orange and blue dominated, a combination that should appeal to the fans of Auburn University athletic teams. Distributed in the USA by Martin J. Lewis.
- Starting in 1927 when the first film, The White Sheik, was made there, Elstree Story features excerpts from over forty productions - including Hitchcock's Blackmail, the first feature-length British talkie ever shown - with early appearances by some of cinema's greatest stars; it is a most memorable and evocative journey through the years.
- A short produced by the US government about the development of the hydrogen bomb leading up to its testing and explosion over Bikini Atoll.
- About the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland. Made to educate the public, to enrich moral and intellectual life through sport, and to salve the wounds of the ongoing Cold War.
- This is an expedition/travelogue, disguised as a documentary with a plot. The 'plot' is that this Howard Hill expedition has come to Africa in search of a legendary tribe of "Leopard Men' (a term used in RKO's 1946 "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman", which just happened to be available as a re-release at the time), and the booming voice of narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis would mention 'The Leopard Men' from time to time, but they did not find any 'Leopard Men', and did not expect to find any 'Leopard Men', but they did find tribes of tall natives and a friendly-but-shy tribe of short natives (Pygmies). It allows Mr. Hill to show off his legendary skills as an archer, especially when the jungle denizens menace the members of the expedition, and sometimes even when they didn't. It is a time capsule in that it shows Africa as it was and wasn't, and gets into native food-hunts, life-styles, customs and living-habits.
- The Norwegian climbing expedition to the Tirich Mir mountain in Pakistan in 1950. Per Kvernberg, Arne Næss, Henry Berg and Tony Streather became the first people ever to reach the top of this mountain - in July 1950.
- The story of the brilliant Italian artist, sculptor, architect and engineer is told in this informative program. Leonardo's legacy to the world came in so many forms; in the breathtaking beauty of The Last Supper and The Mona Lisa; his rich collection of drawing; the mirror-written notebooks containing original thoughts on astronomy, biology and physiology. This DVD features: State of the art 3D graphics to explain and test Leonardo's theories and designs, outstanding computer animated reconstructions, the paintings and drawings, rare period imagery, expert commentary and analyses by Dr. Alan Cartwight, School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, Dr. Peter Borcherds, School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham and Dr. Martin Kemp, Trinity College Oxford.
- A documentary covering the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
- Part one of the official film of XV Olympics in Helsinki 1952.
- A documentary of the Young Pioneers in the 1950's. Including segments: Young Pioneers build a glider at a summer camp on the Baltic; a trip on the sailboat school Wilhelm Pieck; a cross-country game in the mountains; an expedition of the Havel; and a visit to the Thomas Muentzer Stadt Muehlhausen. The highpoint is the Young Pioneer Convention in Dresden. The song written for this film, Die Heimat hat sich schoen gemacht, und Tau blitzt ihr im Haar (Home has made itself beautiful, and dew glistens in her hair) became an East German folk song.