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- National Press Club hears a speech from Alfred Hitchcock.
- Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, the Black Sea, Kharkov, Sochi, Sukumi, Gori, Bukhara, Samarkand, Frunzo and Siberia. In Tbilisi, Georgia, cameras capture what the narrator describes as a fight between police and students. Daily Soviet life is represented, from women performing heavy labor to a state-sponsored fashion show. The film also makes note of the Sputnik spaceship launches, depicting Russian university students as future scientists. Scenes include children playing in a park, sailboats cruising the Ukraine, crude shanty towns, a trip through a government-owned grocery store and the cathedrals of pre-Soviet Russia.
- Maggie comes home to the ranch accompanied by a fiancée interested only in the money she will inherit. Tex Williams, aided by pals Smokey and Deuce and a couple of songs, comes to her rescue.
- Buck Williams, the leader of the Arizona Free Rangers captures Al Carter, the leader of a gang that attacks and robs wagon train settlers and sends him to prison. He also adopts Carter's young son. Sixteen years later, Carter has escaped from prison and returns to his outlaw ways, The son, Tex Williams, now leads the Rangers, and he and his real father, he thought was dead, unknowingly meet again.
- This entry in Universal's "Name Band Musical" shorts is a hodge-podge collection of film from previous releases, and not the first nor last one done this way. The "varieties" in the title means just that as most of the acts have nothing in common reference music styles,and the primary reason it was called Jimmy Dorsey's Varieties, as opposed to Red Norvo or Herb Jeffries Vafieties, was because Cowan figured the Dorsey name would get more bookings.The surprise here is that somebody isn't doing Universal's evergreen "I'll Remember April.
- Production number 5302 in Universal-International "Name Band Musical" series of shorts featuring Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, with a much-larger-than usual number of supporting acts.
- Audie Murphy, an actor soon to appear in a film based on his World War II heroics, meets several other actors in a bank where they discuss the merits of purchasing U.S. savings bonds using payroll deductions.
- Les Brown and His Band of Renown play a hit parade of popular tunes sung by The Lancers, The Bell Sisters and Jack Smith.
- Martin Brundle tests out his top ten super cars on the track and on the road to find out the best car. The cars tested are: Ferrari F40, Lamborghini Diablo GT, Lamborghini Murciélago, TVR T440R, Pagani Zonda C12 S, Koenigsegg CC8S, Jaguar XJ220, Enzo Ferrari, Bugatti EB110 and the McLaren F1.
- Sing-along with The King's Men Quartet offering three types of love songs and inviting audience participation.
- This U-I "Musical Featurette" features Abbe Lane singing "Blame It on the Rhumba"; Hugh O'Brian singing "You"; Lane and O'Brian dueting on "You're My Dish"; "It's Great When You're Doing a Show" performed by Rose Marie; and "You've Got To Have Personality" done by Lane, O'Brian, Rose Marie and Scat-Man Crothers.
- A Universal "Name Band Musical" short with the Henderson Orchestra playing an arrangement of "A Study of Moe's Art", followed by "Chime Fantasy" with vocals by The Modernaires, and "King's Samba", danced by a troupe known as The Kings and Their Ladies.
- A musical short featuring 'western swing' music at its peak, featuring Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers, Deuce Spriggins, Vic and Adio, and others.
- A Universal "Name Band Musical" with the Ted Weems group playing "You've Come a Long Way From St.Louis", "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean", "I Wonder Where That Gal of Mine Has Gone" and "Hair of Gold," The Modernaires, a group, based on their number of appearances in this series of shorts, that Producer Will Cowan must have had on a stand-by basis, contribute some vocals.
- This Universal "Name Band Musical" leads off with the band playing "Good Evening" and then into "Revolutionary Swing." Other acts include the Bobby Tru Trio and the Wilson Sisters, plus Jimmie Dood, Patricia Alphin and Ray Adams.
- This U-I Musical Featurette features Ralph Flanagan and his Orchestra, Marion Colby and the Blackburn Twins. Music numbers are: "Joshua," "Let's Put the Show on the Road," "Just You,Just Me," "I'm In a Dancing Mood," "Hot Toddy," "I'm a Private Eye," and "Dixie Jump."
- Woody is a city street sweeper and hates his job. After being abused by policeman Wally Walrus, he decides to quit and disguises himself as a policeman, kicking the rubbish can away which scoops up Wally sending him into the harbour shrinking his uniform. The angry Wally chases the disguised Woody into the circus. Because he is mistaken for a child, he is denied access but enters backstage disguised as an elephant. Finally, after a long struggle with Woody under the big top, he captures the redhead and returns him to his job as street sweeper.
- This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.
- Alvino Rey plays his electric guitar while the band provides the rest of the music in this Universal "Name Band Musical" short (production number 3301.) They open with "Guitar Boogie" and go on to "I Need Love", "Peg of My Heart" and "At Sundown", two Hit Parade songs for Rey in 1947, and finish with "Ma Ma Blues" and "Cumana." Dance team Curtis & Clare also perform.
- This Universal-International "Color Parade" short (U-I production number 8382) was edited from a 1944 two-reeler "Eagle vs. Dragon", which was set in the Mexican outdoors where trainers Daniel and Julo Mannix presented their trained eagles in an exhibition. The highlight of the longer-running two-reeler was the capture of a giant lizard by an eagle, hence the original title, and that comprises most of the footage in this one-reel, ten minute re-edited version.
- This Universal "Musical Western" short has Tex Williams, Smokey Rogers and Deuce Spriggins helping Leslie Banning (film debut) protect her interest against a gang of cattle rustlers. Universal spliced this film together with another Williams short, "Gold Strike", and sent it out in November of 1950 as a feature film, "Tales of the West No.3".
- The Ralph Marterie orchestra play numbers such as "The Birth of the Blues" and "Dubba Dubbin' With Hank" while Bill Walters, Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence and the Hi-Lo's provide the support.
- A Universal "Name Band Musical" with Tex Beneke leading the Glenn Miller Orchestra in such numbers as "Moonlight Serenade" and "Tuxedo Junction." The Moonlight Serenaders provide the vocals, and the team of Maurice & Maryea dances.
- In addition to the Claude Thornhill Orchestra and singers Marion Colby and Latin singer Joaquin Garay, this U-I "Name Band Musical" featurette (production number 5308) also features "The Snowflakes" singing group and Nappy Lamare and his "Straw Hat Strutters."
- This "Name Band Musical" from Universal, is not the same short as the Warner-Vitaphone 1941 release with the same title. Besides singer Marion Colby, who seemed to sing with many different bands during this era, other acts include The Bachelors, Hightower and Ross, and Landre and Verna. Numbers included "St Louis Blues" and "It's a Good Day."
- An animated canter down memory lane which gives the audience an opportunity to let go in song. The numbers selected - "Pony Boy," "Mary's a Grand Old Name" and "Some of These Days" - are those which people enjoy singing.
- A Universal-International "Name Band Musical" featurette, featuring the King Cole Trio, supplemented by the Benny Carter Orchestra, vocalist Dolores Parker, tap-dancer Bunny Briggs and comedian Scat-Man Crothers.
- A top-notch variety offering. In addition to the smooth music of the Blue Barron aggregation, there is neat harmonizing of "Stay Awhile" and "Undecided" on the part of Betty Clark and the Blue Notes and some pleasing dance routines by the ballroom duo, Gino and Susanne. Best of all, the Modernaires, specialists in satire, sing two really funny novelties - "Relax" and "Run, Joe, Run" - which burlesque neurotics and fortune-tellers.
- U-I "Musical Featurette" (production number 1301) features Frankie Carle and his Orchestra, singers Champ Butler and Lorry Raine, the dance team of Allan & Ashton, The Cheers singing group and harmonica player Stan Fisher. Numbers include "Blue Moon" by Frankie Carle Orchestra; "Dance of the Comedians" with Stan Fisher on his harmonica; "I'm Coming Over to Love You Tonight" and "Cake Walk" sung by Champ Butler, with Allan & Ashton dancing on the latter and also dancing to "Boathouse Waltz, and Lorry Raine singing "What Would I Do."
- The "setting" of this musical featurette (production number 2311) is the NYC apartment of singer Connie Haines. Her guests include the Page Cavanaugh Trio, the Pied Pipers and night-club comedian and mimic Jackie Green.
- In this "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 2310), the band plays while Desi Arnaz explains all about the rhumba, without once saying "Lucee, I'm Home." Desi, Judy Clark and Dulcina take turns on songs suck as "Managua, Nicarauga", "Taboo" and "I'll Take the Rhumba."
- Cowboys Tex Williams (Tex Williams) and his sidekicks Smokey (Smokey Rogers) and Deuce (Deuce Spriggins) find an abandoned mail stage and the bullet-ridden bodies of the guards. Continuing into the deserted mining town of Stillwell, Tex finds it occupied by Brady (Jack Ingram) and his henchmen. The remaining resident is apparently a lunatic who shuffles around town talking to citizens that aren't there and about events and celebrations in a town that has none. Brady and his gang had robbed the stage to steal a back-taxes-due letter intended for Easterer Ruth Gordon (Shirlee Allard), the legal owner of the ghost town. Brady intends to buy the town at a tax foreclosure, and then start a fake gold boom. The resident's lunacy act is to prevent Gomer from discovering that an actual gold mine lies beneath the town. Tex decides to thwart Brady's scheme and rides to the county seat to pay Ruth's taxes. Returning with the receipt, he finds Brady and his henchmen barricaded in possession of the town and determined to shoot things out.
- This "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 3302), filmed in November of 1947 and released on December 3, 1947 (which should make it a 1947 and not a 1948 film) features Gene Krupa, his drums and his trio. It opens with Krupa and the trio playing "Lover" and then Carolyn Grey comes on to sing "Boogie Blues." Krupa and the trio band also play "Blanchette", "Stompin' at the Savoy" and end on "Let Us Leap."
- The story of America as a land of trains, showing how the tracks, stations, and trainmen, as well as the freight and passenger trains are all a part of an important industry.