Lowell Thomas

Watson crafted a dazzling visual ballet that stands on its own as an aesthetically rewarding and educationally inspiring tour of the massive Kodak...

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and...

This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip...

An educational one-reeler for elementary aged children demonstrating the concept of American free-enterprise. The film utilizes wooden toys designed...

Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.

Charlie, working on a junkjard, always trying to help people in the most impossible ways with junk from his work place, hears from a German...

Captain Wallace Casewell Jr., chief of police of Panama City, Florida, is the star of Killers of the Sea. Appointing himself protector of all Gulf of...

Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from...

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry...

Hosted by 'Lowell Thomas' this short illustrates the enterprising nature of the American business and its expansion through time.

Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc,...

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the...

Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in...

Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off...

The Legend of Lasseter is a 1979 Australian documentary about Lasseter's Reef. Lasseter's Reef refers to the purported discovery, announced by Harold...

An airborne documentary following the Shippee-Johnson expedition into the Andes..

An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with...

Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the...

Advances in chicken and egg farming.

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal...

This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty...

A selection of excerpts from the first Cinerama films.

“Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking...

Made in 1937, HIGHWAY MANIA is an early driver safety film narrated by Lowell Thomas. It features stunning images of auto accidents, including some...

An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a...

Inside the electrochemical "brain" of the traffic light.

State of the American people's teeth during the Great Depression.

A documentary on railroads doing their daily tasks created by trhe The Milwaukee Railroad

A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse

Schlitz is a tourist in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Ignoring posted warnings which say that you shouldn't climb Mount Washington (the...

Shot in gorgeous Cinecolor, an early subtractive two-color process, Lost Lake follows the famed Jesuit priest, geologist, and explorer Father Bernard...

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public...

Mussolini Speaks is a 1933 documentary film highlighting the first 10 years of Benito Mussolini’s rule as Prime Minister of Italy. The film,...

"Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous...

Introduces Polaroids marketing campaign for the year 1964, including TV commercials. Produced for dealers.

A documentary newsreel (in Universal's "Going Places" series) offering an in-depth glimpse into the Universal/Walter Lantz animation studio,...

"The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War" is a compilation documentary narrated by Lowell Thomas, illustrating changing attitudes toward the war and...

A look at what goes on in China.

Stresses the necessity for the average American driver to realize fully his responsibility when behind the wheel. Illustrates that violations of safe...

With Western Electric Vacuum Tubes in the starring roles, this film tells the fascinating story of tube development from the first crude bulbs of...

This short film produced by the National Association of Manufacturers takes the point of view that mechanization of the workplace, in which workers...

The film discusses the fascinating world of color perception, particularly from the perspective of various creatures, including fish and lobsters. It...

Lowell Thomas narrates a look at progress in American history.