Gayne Whitman

U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii (ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in the Congress, that membership in the Communist Party was, at the time, legal in the U.S.) (imdb)

The owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he's been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde on the night of their 20th wedding anniversary. He has to find a way to convince her that the "beautiful blonde" in question was actually a store mannequin that he was taking in for repairs. (imdb)

Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders. (imdb)

STRICTLY VIRGIN is the law... BREAK IT and you die! (imdb)

In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love." (imdb)

Dedicated Dr. Jordan is increasingly concerned about the health risks suffered by workers at a local pottery factory. "In Harrison Pratt's badly ventilated and dusty pottery the doctor finds the workers easy prey to tuberculosis." The doctor can point out consumptive workers, but the only result is that the stricken men are dismissed and replaced by fresh victims. (imdb)

Eight strangers are invited by a mysterious unknown host to spend the night in a penthouse apartment. The eight (5 men, 3 women) are wined, dined, then greeted by their host's voice via a radio broadcast. The voice announces that before the night is over each one will be systematically murdered unless they manage to outwit their ninth guest Death. Based on the mystery novel The Invisible Host (1930) by Gwen Bristow & Bruce Manning. (imdb)

A courtship and wedding in the South Seas. (youtube.com)

A mountaineer loads a shipment of moonshine whiskey onto his horse-cart, then goes to make a delivery. After he leaves, a revenue agent comes to the mountaineer's house to stake it out, and he soon observes some whiskey being traded for corn. The agent at once goes to alert other revenue officers, who arm themselves with rifles and then begin an immediate search for the moonshiner's still. (imdb)

A love story that takes place at the time of the gold rush. Prospector Allister Burke is in love with Mary, but he believe the slanderous lies that are spread by Burke, his competitor.

"Mothproofed" fabrics tested on carpet beetle larvae; tides predicted by mechanical computer; calibrating watches; household gadgets; "scientifically managed" horse racing at Santa Anita, California (imdb)

Raising angora rabbits for wool; new marine navigation and safety technology; kitchen gadgets; developing new rose varieties. (imdb)

Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful dog Yukon King, battling both the elements and criminals. (imdb)

A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.

1942 Oscar nominated film in the category of Best Short Subject, One Reel.

A crook on the run from the law in New York flees to Mexico, where he falls for a beautiful young Mexican girl and tries to help her father save the family estate from a gang of criminals. (imdb)

A wealthy banker wants to tear down a tenement slum to build a factory, but a charming girl who lives there begins to persuade him to change his mind. A crooked bank employee and one of the tenement dwellers are stealing bonds from the bank. When they are about to be caught, they try to frame the girl and her boyfriend, and the bank employee attempts to force himself on the girl. All comes right in the end, and the banker decides to build new apartments for the tenement dwellers instead of a fac

A film recreating a broadcast of the Westinghouse Radio Program starring John Charles Thomas and John Nesbitt. Program narrator was Gayne Whitman and musical director was Victor Young. The Ken Darby Chorus backed up the great American baritone.

Promotional film for Boeing's new commercial transport, the 4-engine double-decker Model 377 Stratocruiser.

Too Many Crooks is a lost 1927 American comedy silent film directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, written by E.J. Rath and Rex Taylor, and starring Mildred Davis, Lloyd Hughes, George Bancroft, El Brendel, William V. Mong, John St. Polis, and Otto Matieson. It was released on April 2, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

This is the Loyola Films version of Cathedral Films original version of "The Story of Jairus' Daughter."

Produced by George Pal, "Birth of An Oil Field" was directed by Duke Goldstone and released in 1949 by the Shell Oil Company. This film, part of a series of outstanding movies on the petroleum industry produced by Shell, explains and demonstrates methods, procedures, and equipment used in the drilling of oil wells and delivery of petroleum products worldwide.

Oscar-winning Live Action Short film about bees.

This short is one of Paramount's "Popular Science" series (number L6-5, or the fifth one of the 1946-47 production season) and begins by showling moon rockets, weighing 30 tons, aflight in the ionosphere, with mounted color cameras recording pictures hundreds of miles above the earth. Coming back to earth, it discourses on modern bathroom fixtures, and then demostrates a one-man hay-bailer.

A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.

Archery expert Howard Hill and a cameraman go to Wyoming to film this wild-animal three-reel short. Besides the scenery, the scenes include a buffalo killed by an arrow shot by Hill (for food); a wildcat and a coyote in a battle, and a fight-to-the-death between a mother bear (protecting her cubs) against a killer bear.

Joan Wiswell (Irene Rich), Ted Workman (Clive Brooks) and wholesome Helen Ripley (June Marlowe) are among the half-dozen or more suspects, all for good reasons of their own , murdered a high-society crook called Genne Cassenas (Gayne Whitman).

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

Part of the Speaking of Animals short film series.

A candid-camera hobbyist tries to photograph a group of monkeys in the zoo but they outsmart and make a monkey out of him. The shutterbug decides to photograph an elephant and has a problem with the 14-foot ladder. And the lion has no intentions of being a close-up subject.

The prophet Amos spoke in the name of the Lord during the oppressive rule of King Jeroboam II. Joab, a wealthy minister's son is mistaken for a poor man's son and taken away to be tortured.

Another great Alaska film, this time made by an apparent clueless tourist going there expecting to find snow and ice the minute they cross the border, only to be disappointed with all the greenery.