Charles L. Tedford

It's 1941 and three Nazis escape from a Canadian prison. Two are killed but the third kills Paul Schiller and assumes his identity. This leads him to the Three Mesquiteers ranch where his uncle Dr. Steiner is developing a chemical that will extract rubber from a local plant. The Nazis are out to stop the project and they get the fake Schiller to sabotage the Doctor's formula. (imdb)

The brazen audaciousness with which Bryan Foy's B-picture unit at Warner Bros. remade the studio's old properties was seldom more pronounced than in 1941's Here Comes Happiness, a thinly disguised reworking of 1934's Happiness Ahead! The original starred Dick Powell and Josephine Hutchinson; the remake casts Edward Norris as ambitious sandhog Chet Madden and Mildred Coles as poor little rich girl Jessica Vance. (imdb)

This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware, who cast the deciding vote so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776. (imdb)

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. (imdb)

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address. (imdb)

This 'Special' entry from the Warners/Vitaphone shorts department is less the story of Clara Barton, and more the story of how Clara Barton helped further the cause of the Red Cross in the United States and the birth of the American Red Cross. Barton went through many trials and setbacks before she succeeded. This short, as was all Warners' shorts, was made for the express purpose of theatrical release and not as something made with the school market in mind. (imdb)

Narrated travelogue covering the Andes Mountains portion of Bolivia, and three very different areas of Peru, the traditional cities of the Andes Mountains, the modern cities of the coastal plains, and the upper Amazon jungle. (imdb)

PT Boat Training Film from World War II.

The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.

From the Department of the Navy.This historical recording from the National Archives may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material.

A youthful Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot in an Indian attack.

Despite his tender age, four year old Melvin Beebe is an expert archer. At his family's farm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state, Melvin uses only props as target practice. These practices however are only a prelude to his first hunting experience in the forests around the farm one spring morning. The purpose is to bring home trophies to mount on his walls. The animals he encounters that day change the focus of what he ends up bringing home.

Three young women join the newly formed Women's Army Corps (WACS) for varied reasons, and make contributions to the war effort.

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.

The annual horse race held in the Piazza del Campo in Siena is highlighted in all its color, pomp, and pageantry.

Documentary short film demonstrating the way wartime farming measures in 1943 resulted in the greatest American food crop in history.