"John Nesbitt's PASSING PARADE" 27 August 1949 Factual 10 mins
This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home.
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John Nesbitt as Narrator (voice)
Frank E. Hull Editor
Passing Parade No. 72: City of Children Trailer
United States 27 August 1949
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17 November 1945
Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news.
31 October 1942
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.
18 February 1939
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite, and later established the Nobel Prize.
24 April 2008
A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
24 July 1943
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short highlights the film preservation efforts of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
11 November 1944
The saga of the Normandie is recounted from her life as a luxury liner, the horrific fire that nearly destroyed her, and her resuscitation to join in the war effort.
13 July 1940
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people.
17 September 2020
The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts.
15 July 2017
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
27 November 1943
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the evolution of the American city, from the initially small farming village, to the eventually hectic, congested metropolis, to the future planned suburban community.
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Little girls doing housework chores.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1949:
01 January 1949
Filmed record of a burlesque show, with Sunny Knight ("The Golden Girl of the Golden West") as the headliner.
14 September 1949
After claim jumper Sanders kills a miner, he changes clothes with Perry. In pursuit, the Marshal kills Perry claiming he was the murderer.
17 March 1949
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed.
13 April 1949
The fox and crow are sharing grapes while the crow reads a book about a similar fox and crow sharing grapes who eventually fought it out for the last one.
02 February 1949
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.
24 March 1949
An employee progresses in the factory where he works by having his wife pass by an attractive Cuban singer.
02 April 1949
Charles Starrett once more dons the mask of mysterious do-gooder "The Durango Kid" in Columbia's Challenge of the Range.
02 April 1949
Jack Garrett interrupts a stagecoach holdup where he meets Fuzzy (The town's stagecoach driver, station agent, baggage agent, and sheriff) and banker Jim Thorn.
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