Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Apr 8, 1939

0h 10m

★ 4.0

Overview

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 Trailers

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Cast

Don Ameche

Joan Crawford

Irene Dare

Melvyn Douglas

Rita Hayworth

Sonja Henie

Al Jolson

Franklin Pangborn

Eleanor Powell

Tyrone Power

Dick Purcell

Cesar Romero

The Rolling Stones' record-breaking 1981 North American arena tour documented by director Hal Ashby. Featuring the biggest Rolling Stones songs from the first 20 years - in the words of Mick Jagger, "a feel of what it's like to be there", as 20 cameras take you onstage with the band in this groundbreaking, dynamic tour.

8.0

Africa - Part I - From Morocco to Kilimanjaro

Jun 12, 1952

The feature-length film by engineers J. Hanzelka and M. Zikmund captures how the two travelers prepared for their first trip around the world and in documentary footage describes their experiences from the first half of the trip through Africa. You will see for yourself what obstacles they had to overcome on the ravaged roads of Abyssinia and in what danger the fate of the expedition was during the daring passage through the Nubian desert. The film culminates with an ascent to the highest mountain in Africa, the extinct volcano Kilimanjaro, whose peak is covered in ice all year round.

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0.0

Africa II – From the Equator to Table Mountain

Oct 23, 1953

The second part of the film begins with a journey in the equatorial region, where the travelers managed to capture the most typical images of the original Africa. The journey continues to the forests of the Belgian Congo, where they filmed the smallest people in the world, black dwarfs. From Central Africa, they head south through Victoria Falls and the mysterious ruins of a medieval settlement in Zimbabwe. In Johannesburg, they witness a celebration of black gold diggers. Their journey ends at the southernmost tip of Africa under Table Mountain in Cape Town. The end of the film depicts the birth of a volcano shot from close range.

6.0

Desert Victory

Apr 12, 1943

A featureless land fit only for war, as the narrator, J. L. Hodson stated in the early scenes: "If war was to be fought then let it begin here". In endless miles of rock-strewn scrub desert, where civilians hardly existed. Desert Victory tells the story of the Allied campaign to drive Germany and Italy from North Africa is analysed, with the major portion of the film examining the battles at El Alamein, including some re-enactment. Won "Best Documentary Feature" at the 16th Academy Awards in 1944.

6.8

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Nov 13, 1943

The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

6.0

Secret Tibet

Jan 18, 1943

In 1938 Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler sponsored an expedition to Tibet lead by several Nazi SS scientists to study the regions flora and fauna, and to take scientific measurements of the Earths magnetic fields. The expedition was also sent to find traces of the orgins of the "Aryan" race in Tibet which was where Himmler thought evidence of could be found. This film is a Nazi era documentary of that expedition.

0.0

Ludwig van Beethoven

Jul 2, 1954

Documentary on the master composer, from a GDR point of view.

3.9

Anaconda

Sep 4, 1955

Documentary by Torgny Anderberg

6.0

From Argentina to Mexico

Oct 15, 1954

Travelers Hansel and Zikmund sail from Africa to South America. On their journey to film, they capture clouds of locusts on the plains of Argentina's Chaco, a snake farm in Butantane, skyscrapers in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, a visit to lepers in Paraguay, waterfalls in Iguazu, a daring expedition to the jungles of the Marañon river basin to hunt skull hunters. an Indian settlement in Panama and the journey ends prematurely in Mexico amidst the ruins of ancient Indian temples and pyramid.

0.0

The Sixth Continent

Sep 4, 1954

This 95-minute, full-color documentary was released in the U.S. as Sixth Continent. That continent is Africa -- or, more specifically, the coast of Ethiopia. Director Folco Quillici takes his cameras deep, deep into the waters near the coastal islands of Dalach, observing the passing parade of sea life on an up-close-and-personal basis. Particularly thrilling is a shark attack and its aftermath, with the cinematographers obviously in the thick of things. Gian Caspare Napolitano provides the narration, while the lush, evocative musical score is the handiwork of Roberto Nicolosi.

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0.0

Südseeparadies

Dec 18, 1940

No overview available.

5.6

Little Mother

Feb 4, 1935

A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mother to everyone.

0.0

Andalusische Nächte

Jul 4, 1938

When the dancer Carmen visits the bullfighter Antonio, who has stabbed a gypsy, in prison, she meets the dragoon brigadier José. The two immediately take a liking to each other, and from that day on, José often visits the café where Carmen dances. When Carmen injures another dancer in a jealous quarrel, José is ordered to arrest her...

7.1

The Thief of Bagdad

Feb 19, 1940

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.

7.4

Mutiny on the Bounty

Nov 22, 1935

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.

5.5

Child of the Danube

May 15, 1950

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father. She works as a waitress in her aunt's inn, entertaining the guests with singing and dancing. Her greatest dream is to save enough money to repair the old barge and sail down the Danube. One day, she meets three young artists, Georg, Oskar, and Christoph, who all fall in love with her. Together, they put on an open-air revue and raise the necessary money. And with Georg, Marika is lucky in love.

6.2

My Life for Ireland

Jan 2, 1941

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.

7.5

The Invisible Man

Nov 3, 1933

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

7.5

The Adventures of Robin Hood

May 13, 1938

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

0.0

The Sonnenbrucks

Mar 1, 1951

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.

Cast

Don Ameche

Joan Crawford

Irene Dare

Melvyn Douglas

Rita Hayworth

Sonja Henie

Al Jolson

Franklin Pangborn

Eleanor Powell

Tyrone Power

Dick Purcell

Cesar Romero

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 8 Trailers

Cast

Don Ameche

Joan Crawford

Irene Dare

Melvyn Douglas

Rita Hayworth

Sonja Henie

Al Jolson

Franklin Pangborn

Eleanor Powell

Tyrone Power

Dick Purcell

Cesar Romero

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