Robert L. Ripley Trailers
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Robert L. Ripley (December 25, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, radio show, and television show which feature odd facts from around the world.
Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little-known facts about unusual and exotic sites. But what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that he also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small-town American trivia ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by his drawings.
Most Popular Robert L. Ripley Trailers
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02 May 1931
Robert L. Ripley presents various oddities to members of the Believe-It-or-Not Club.
04 September 1930
At the request of a television experimenter who needed items to broadcast, Robert L. Ripley states unsubstantiated oddities including that a Spanish lady had her husband's portrait tattooed on her tongue as penance for nagging him to death.
20 February 1931
Ripley shows a chair of growing trees, the narrowest street in the world, a city of wine cask dwellers and a bungalow of 144 rooms.
11 September 1930
At a charity bazaar, Ripley settles a thousand dollar bet by producing man who has not slept in 75 years.
01 September 1931
Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of tin cans, and a sultan with many wives and children.
16 April 1932
Robert Ripley presents a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips showing the world's youngest parents and the largest bible.
05 July 1931
This entry in the Believe It or Not series finds Mr. Ripley aboard a U.S. naval ship speaking to a group of sailors.
24 August 1930
Reporters interview Ripley about his world travels. Vitaphone No. 1053.
14 May 1932
This omnibus of film clips include a Savanna golf course made from Civil War trenches, wooden Indians used ourside cigar stores, an American Indian artist from South Dakota who paints upside down, the smallest residence house, a Bronx River statue with mysterious Civil War origins, the Ocean Grove community in New Jersey that closes on Sundays and a futuristic automated parking garage.
05 January 1931
Ripley shows unusual athletic feats, a boy born with "clock" eyes, and a blind French monk who invented navigation laws.
27 September 1940
A Ripley's Believe It or Not short film, it tells the story of a man wrongly imprisoned who goes abroad to find his fortune and ends up getting sent back home on the Titanic.
12 July 1931
In this entry, passengers enter a mockup of an airplane. During the flight, Robert Ripley shows the "passengers" several oddities across the United States.
30 April 1932
In this short film, Robert L. Ripley introduces narrator Leo Donnelly who presents various "Believe It or Not" oddities from around the world as gathered by Ripley.
05 January 1931
Another entry in Robert L. Ripley's series. This time we also get to see Dan Edwards, the most decorated U.
26 December 1931
Billy falls asleep and dreams Robert L. Ripley takes him on a tour of Believe-It-or-Not land to see many oddities.
09 July 1932
In Robert L. Ripley's absence, Leo Donnelly acts as the guide to the unusual from around the world. A group of people in the Philippines are moving a house, foundation and all, six miles, by carrying it on their backs.
11 June 1930
The second entry in the Believe It or Not series of shorts begins with Robert Ripley in his office sorting his mail.
30 April 1930
Robert L. Ripley first shows the very first cartoon of his, published in newspapers 8 years earlier. He then proceeds with various oddities, first introducing a woman who can read aloud 8 words a second.
11 June 1932
This entry of the series does not feature Robert Ripley, who is away gathering material on his tours.
27 February 1932
Robert Ripley draws and shows movies to train passengers. Vitaphone No. 1346.
30 January 1932
Robert Ripley shows a pretty blond a shrunken head and an iron execution chamber. Vitaphone No. 1336.
26 March 1932
Robert Ripley gives a show aboard a luxury liner at sea, starting with drawings discussing the origin of the "fathom" and Christopher Columbus being banished from America.
21 November 1931
This entry in the series criss-crosses America to find various curiosities. Among them are a church in Nebraska made of bales of hay; a duck with four legs that lives with its owner in Flint, Michigan; a 128-year-old former slave who lives in Holly Springs, Mississippi, with her 100-year-old daughter; and, in a cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky, a family plot wherein the deceased members are memorialized with life-size statues, including the patriarch's horse and other family pets.
24 October 1931
Ripley shows an aged Japanese statesman, a strange fish with legs, the 'Rubaiyat' in a finger ring, how a house of cards is torn up, and a giant typewriter in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
26 September 1931
This first entry in the "Believe It Or Not" series of shorts visits northern Africa. Included are a look at the Tuareg people of the Sahara Desert, a waterfall whose under-surface builds up because of lime deposits, a clock that strikes 13, and the Tree of Abraham, estimated to be 3500 years old.
12 November 1993
A documentary examining the life of Robert L. Ripley (played by an actor), the man who created the "Believe It Or Not" series.
