A 20th Century Fox Magic Carpet of Movietone travelogue short released in December 1938, depicting Scandinavian “Viking” history and landscapes. Produced as part of Fox’s long-running newsreel/travel series, the film later gained historical significance as a source of stock footage in Frank Capra’s World War II propaganda documentary Divide and Conquer (1943). Barnouw notes its inclusion among the “bits of European history” repurposed by Capra, and Frank Capra’s Eastern Horizons likewise cites Viking Trails—alongside Warner’s Escape From Crime and Paramount’s The Avengers—as source material.
This comical campus romance showcases the fancy footwork of All-American basketball player Hank Luisetti while it tells the story of a dean's son who does his very best to become a good student.
The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimming from the farm's finances to line his own pocket.
Three mice run, cavort, sing and dance around in the stores and restaurants a big city at night. They wind up in a café for an early-morning snack and stocking up on food provisions before they return to the safety of their den beneath a man-hole cover in the street.
Reflecting the filmmaker's passion for automobiles, who in his youth participated in car races, the film portrays the attempt to manufacture a new model in the Ford factory in the city of Porto.
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