Secrets of British Animation Trailer
He co-founded and was the first director of The March of Time, which added topical issues to newsreels. He also produced feature film documentaries that based dramatic narrative on factual records, including "The House On 92nd Street" (1945), which used real FBI files, "Boomerang!" (1946), it included a reenactment of an actual murder case and a biography, "Martin Luther" (1953).
Total trailers found: 39
26 May 1951
U.S. government film that examines the duties of an FBI employee.
02 August 1951
A newly promoted plant supervisor finds himself in the position of having to announce a layoff of his fellow workers.
21 January 1938
Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.
28 February 1947
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police.
03 July 1939
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date.
28 December 1961
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway.
21 May 1943
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
19 November 2018
BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness of some of the great animation pioneers who have worked in Britain – trailblazing talents such as Len Lye, John Halas and Joy Batchelor, Joanna Quinn, and Bristol’s world-conquering Aardman Animations.
02 July 1949
A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the more prejudiced neighbors demand their expulsion from the community.
24 December 1958
From 1958 Brussels World’s Fair to the election of Pope John XXIII
08 November 1934
Produced by the Fox Movietone News arm of Fox Film Corporation and based on the book by Lawrence Stallings, this expanded newsreel, using stock-and-archive footage, tells the story of World War I from inception to conclusion.
10 July 1936
On July 10, 1936, the Time Corporation released the seventh episode of the second year of its newsreel series The March of Time, which included a controversial sequence titled “An American Dictator.
04 January 1930
A tour of famed Brooklyn amusement park Coney Island, focusing on the brightly-lit rides and attractions and the people who flock to the park during the summer.
01 June 1952
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
13 December 1942
The history of the Corps, from Colonial times to the present day (1942, that is). The film's midsection details the arduous training procedure of the Few and the Proud at Parris Island and elsewhere.
25 March 1960
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
15 January 1947
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage.
10 September 1945
The US Government tries to track down embedded Nazi agents in the States.
05 November 1943
There is a vast increase of youth crime, doubling in the two years since the US entered World War II.
08 April 1958
Windjammer, the first presentation in CINEMIRACLE, is the record of a training cruise of the full-rigged S/S Christian Radich from Oslo across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, to New York and back home again.
01 January 1927
A tour along the Dalmatian coast, presenting the history, landmarks and cultural significance of the region.
19 September 1940
The first of 4 full-length features produced by The March of Time, which was much more well known for the series of newsreels.
25 September 1967
In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from a tryst with a waitress named Ellie.
04 December 1942
Covers the American planning and execution of the great Allied Military Manoeuvre in North Africa.
01 October 1942
A sweeping survey of General de Gaulle’s Free France government-in-exile and the French underground resistance movement.
21 March 1947
The Teachers’ Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems—education.
01 May 1944
A successful invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe depended on intelligence from behind enemy lines. This report uses a mixture of dramatized reconstructions, captured Axis film and footage shot by the French Resistance to reveal life in Nazi-occupied Europe.
01 October 1944
Justice or revenge? As Allied tanks rolled across Europe in October 1944, clearly in no mood for reconciliation or forgiveness, this film demands punishment for Germany as well as hoping for a lasting peace settlement.
01 September 1944
Postwar Farms (MARCH OF TIME) will interest not only farmers but also those numerous urbanites who wonder wistfully how they might make out on five acres and a prayer.
01 April 1944
As America puts pressure on Ireland to suspend diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, this film offers a nuanced and heartfelt defence of Irish neutrality with a backdrop of peaceful images of whitewashed cottages and peat-laden wagons.
01 December 1944
Tells the story of how the 8th American Air force’s daylight bombing raids on Germany helped the Allies to win control over the skies of Europe.
01 January 1944
Life during wartime for Sweden meant a carefully balanced neutrality in order to avoid the fate of Norway.
01 January 1945
From the ruins of Monte Cassino to the malarial swamps of the Pontine Marshes, this newsreel depicts the full extent of Italy’s devastation in early 1945.
01 March 1944
Ventures beyond the Copacabana beach to explain how Brazil – rich in minerals, oil and rubber and strategically vital for access to Africa, and at the time under the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas – was wooed by the USA’s ‘Good Neighbor Policy’ and came to join the Allies during World War II.
21 February 1947
Fashion Means Business (MARCH OF TIME) compactly investigates that heavy, nervous industry which whets woman's desire to improve, with various fabrics and gewgaws, upon the pelt God gave her.
19 March 1948
The Italian Communist Party in 1948: a force for progress and reform or the last refuge of a desperate population and a threat to the rest of Europe?
13 July 1945
Where’s the Meat tells in considerable detail where it is, where it isn’t and why it won’t be. There are glimpses of black markets and worried men in Washington, of sharp practices in stores and on the range, and of the small local butcheries which have crammed quick-freeze lockers with millions of pounds of meat, much of it bought point-free, on the hoof.
16 May 1947
Eager science students, devout peasants, tough farm workers and hungry families: this film offered a rare chance for viewers to see the human face of Russia in the aftermath of war.
06 August 1937
The U.S. looks for lessons in the Spanish Civil War as it prepares for future conflicts
