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- Actor Lionel Barrymore and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Dore Schary present clips from the studio's 1951 releases, including "Quo Vadis".
- Director John Ford's documentary about the beginnings of the Korean War, after North Korenn troops invaded South Korea and battled U.S., South Korean and United Nations forces. Notable in that, unlike many documentaries of the time, it's in color, and no stock footage is used.
- Everything you wanted to know about bullfighting and bullfighters. After a historical insight into tauromachy, the film shows the way the bulls meant for the arena are raised and selected. It also illustrates how the future matadors learn the tricks of their trade, analyzes the different stages of the fight and details the various passes made by the bullfighters. Finally the viewer is made to attend demonstrations provided by the greatest specialists among whom Manolete, Dominguin, Mazzantini and Arruza.
- A collection of scenes from various Bela Lugosi movies.
- Excellent documentary film about diving to the bottom of the Red Sea.
- On 11 Nov 1950, the Swedish football team Djurgårdens IF goes on tour to the Far East. The journey crosses the European continent to Athens, then via Abadan, Karachi, Bombay and Calcutta to Rangoon in Burma.
- Radio personality Eammon Andrews shows a group of young female volunteers around the attractions of the Festival Of Britain.
- The Royal Kiltie Juniors perform a variety show, and are interviewed by Peter Sinclair, while McDonald Hobley speaks to their parents.
- This concert features virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999) at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947. Together with various artists he performed classical and romantic works of famous composers such as Beethoven, Wieniawski, Bach, Paganini and others. Yehudi Menuhin in Concert Magic is the very first concert film produced by and for Hollywood. This concert was premiered at the Stage Door Cinema in San Francisco for movie audiences. Yehudi Menuhin was at the age of 32 and was at the pinnacle of his fame.
- Throughout his life, André Gide was haunted by questions of a religious and moral nature. When he published "Les Nourritures terrestres" ("The Fruits of the Earth") in 1897, success opened the doors to the literary salons.
- This documentary follows a Central and South American expedition led by explorer Lewis Cotlow. The travelogue begins on the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, where the crew visit the San Blas Indians. The narrator describes their colorful dress and notes that the chief product of the island is coconuts. Continuing their travels to the Port of Belem off the coast of Brazil, the crew take a riverboat up the Amazon River, detouring up a tributary, where they spot many wild birds, including toucans, egrets and papagayos. After a brief encounter with a tribe known as the Bororos, who reveal their fishing techniques, they canoe to a section of the river in Peru to visit the Yagua tribe. Male members of the tribe take the crew on a leopard hunt using blowguns and then return to the camp to celebrate. The next stop is the Guano Islands, off the coast of Peru, where seals and guanyos are prevalent. The crew return to the coast to visit with the Colorados Indians, who use red paste made from a native seed to cover their bodies and that of the narrator's, who joins them in decorating his body. The crew then travel to the western base of the Andes Mountains in search of the "hot-tempered" Jivaro tribe. As a result of the Jivaros' religious beliefs that they must seek revenge for the murder of any member of their own family, they have become headhunters. The narrator describes the entire process, from the murder and decapitation to the boiling water process used to shrink the heads. The film closes with narrator commenting that "only men crueler than nature can survive" in the wild terrain of the Amazon jungle.
- The first feature about the PRC shown in the US, showing workers in cooperatives, youth at school, mass athletic events, holiday parades, and leaders making speeches; the friendship with the USSR is stressed.
- This documentary/travelogue film features the color and character of the Irish people set against the background of their beautiful and picturesque country. Hollywood star Pat O'Brien narrates fondly as the cameras travel over the land to Killarney Lakes, Dublin, Belfast, Galway, Cork, Donegal and Sligo, and sights of the renowned Blarney Stone, St. Kevin's Bed, Benn Bullen and Aran Island. Appearances by Sean O'Kelly, Prime Minister Costello, Eamon De Valera, and the singing of Christopher Lynch, assisted by a 32-piece Symphony orchestra are among the highlights.
- This rare BAFTA-winning film provides a behind-the-scenes view into the 1951 Canadian royal tour. Presented in its original version, in gorgeous Eastman colour.
- MS "Lidvard" transported grain from Vietnam to Dakar in Senegal where it arrived on 30 May 1940. The boat was immediately detained by the authorities with crew. After over a year the boat fled from Dakar to Freetown in Sierra Leone.
- Industrial and social progress in post-war Europe.
- The impact of the Korean War on the Turkish people.
- This film was cobbled together from Japanese newsreels and propaganda films, to boost home-front morale, filmed during World War Two. It shows the early conquests of Japan, beginning with the sneak attack and bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the declaration of war against the United States by Tojo. It includes archive footage of the bombings of MAnila and the Philippines, the Japanese invasion of Manila with paratroopers and a visit to the captured islands by Tojo. Footage used in this compilation film also included the bombing and surrender of Corregidor, the infamous Bataan Death March, the bombing of Hong Kong and the invasion of Burma, and the jungle warfare, leading to, when the tide of the war shifted in favor of the Allies, young Japanese pilots being sent out on suicide missions.
- The Movietone news department took the televised proceedings of the United States Senate Crime Investigating Committee hearings, also filmed in their entirety by Movietone News cameraman, culled out the hours of dull senators-vs-lawyers exchanges, and came up with fifty-two minutes of what Fox dubbed the highlights. What they also had, that the television audience didn't have, was revealing close-up that the static-placed television cameras didn't provide, plus scenes outside the court-room in New York City that caught the arrival and departure of the politicians, witnesses and Mafia members, plus cuts to the press room and the hearings in Washington.
- A series of vaudeville skits at the Moulin Rouge.
- Emperor Napoléon Ier's prodigious destiny, from his childhood in Corsica to the Return of the Ashes from Saint Helena, on the one hand, through popular imagery, engravings and paintings by great artists like David, Gros and Prud'hon, and, on the other hand, the landscapes and monuments that are the reminders of this great figure. The whole thing is unified by a commentary meant to captivate the public.