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Green Pastures (1926)

admin2 — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:03:59 +0000

Mud animation by pioneer San Francisco Chinese American animator Joseph Sunn. From the “Ralph Wolfe’s Mud Stuff” series.

Undercover Agent (1939)

admin2 — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:02:57 +0000

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

Crime | Drama

Russell Gleason	…	Bill Trent
Shirley Deane	…	Betty Madison
J.M. Kerrigan	…	Tom ‘Pop’ Madison
Maude Eburne	…	Mrs. Minnow
Oscar O’Shea	…	Pat Murphy
Ralf Harolde	…	Bartel
Selmer Jackson	…	Graham

Young Uruguay (1943)

admin2 — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:01:58 +0000

Portrays the young people of Uruguay at home, play and school.

Uncivilised (1936)

admin2 — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:26:05 +0000

Beatrice Lynn, a young novelist,decides to penetrate the unknown Kimberly Range district to search for the mythical, she thinks, white ruler of a tribe of aborigines. A Mounted Policeman DISGUISES himself as an Afghan slave trader and, after several days of guiding the exploration party, abducts Beatrice for use as a lure to get into the forbidden territory in an effort to break up the opium-smuggling ring that keeps the natives in a state of war. The un-named policeman knows there is a white king and that the white king is seeking a white bride, but he reaches the territory only after a narrow escape from a mad-killer tracking the party. Mara, the White King, takes Beatrice as his White Queen, but does not force his attentions upon her and this impresses Beatrice no little. Meanwhile, Trask, the opium smuggler, is trapped by the policeman and, after a fierce battle between the tribe’s deposed witch doctor and his son, the afore-mentioned mad-killer, with the killer’s tribe at their back, Mara’s warriors emerge victorious. When the Policeman, no longer posing as an Afgan slave-trader, leaves Beatrice stays in the jungle as the white ruler’s white queen.

Adventure

Margot Rhys	…	Beatrice Lynn
Dennis Hoey	…	Mara the White Chief
Ashton Jarry	…	The Mounted Policeman – posing as Akbar Jhan the White Slaver
Marcelle Marnay	…	Sondra the Half-Caste
Kenneth Brampton	…	Trask the Opium Smuggler
Victor Fitzherbert	…	John Hemmingway, publisher
E. Gilbert Howell	…	Vitchi the Witch Doctor (as E. G. Howell)
Edward Sylveni	…	Salter

River, The (Part II) (1937)

admin2 — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:08:20 +0000

Classic documentary history of the exploitation of the resources of the Mississippi River Valley and the work being done to rehabilitate and reclaim the area. Director and writer: Pare Lorentz. Narrator: Thomas Chalmers. Photography: Willard Van Dyke, Stacey Woodard and Floyd Crosby. Editor: Leo Zochling. Music: Virgil Thomson.

Tom and Jerry: Jolly Fish (1932)

admin2 — Tue, 04 May 2010 00:04:54 +0000

Tom and Jerry go fishing.

Van Beuren’s “Tom and Jerry” series was renamed “Dick and Larry” in the 1950s. That’s why the title card presents this cartoon as a “A Dick and Larry Carton”.

Flip The Frog – Fiddlesticks (1930)

admin2 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:03:08 +0000

Flip the Frog was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s first sound cartoon. It is about a happy-go-lucky, needy frog, named Flip the Frog.

This cartoon was created by Ub Iwerks in 1930. He had drawn a frog and his girlfriend in “Night’”, one of the last Silly Symphonies short films he drew while working for Walt Disney.

After leaving Disney, Ub Iwerks began the Flip cartoon series with the help of Pat Powers. The first cartoon that Ub Iwerks made for the series was called Fiddlesticks (released on August 16, 1930), and it was also the first color sound cartoon ever made. Fiddlesticks was made in two-color Technicolor. The rest of the Flip series were made in black and white, except for Techno-Cracked (1933).

FIDDLESTICKS is perhaps the least funny and entertaining of the FLIP cartoons, many of which have surprisingly adult gags.

Trigger Pals (1939)

admin2 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:11:22 +0000

Kent wants the Allen ranch. So he has Steve and his men rustle their cattle using Pete as an informant. When the Trigger Pals Lucky, Stormy, and Fuzzy fight back, Kent frames Stormy for the rustling.

Western

Arthur Jarrett	…	Lucky Morgan (as Art Jarrett)
Lee Powell	…	Stormy
Al St. John	…	Fuzzy
Dorothy Fay	…	Doris Allen (as Dorothy Faye)
Ted Adams	…	Kent
Nina Guilbert	…	Aunt Minnie
Stanley Blystone	…	Steve (as Stan Blystone)
Ernie Adams	…	Pete

River, The (Part I) (1937)

admin2 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:06:07 +0000

British World War Two Public Information Films – Collection Two (1939)

admin2 — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:41:19 +0000

Second collection of Second World War British Public Information Films. Produced by the Central Office of Information.

The films in this collection are:
Back the Attack / Christmas Week Rail Travel 1941 / Coal / Curb Drill / Help Agriculture / Save Electricity