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- A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into space.
- A newspaper columnist who helps police solve especially difficult mysteries. The title derived from a popular mystery magazine of the same name.
- A London cat burglar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) falls for the girlfriend (Valerie Hobson) of a stockbroker (Alan Hale) who used to be his partner.
- Dickens' classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and three Christmas Ghosts that change his perception of life. Narrated by Vincent Price.
- A film noir drama-dey cop & crime show, Public Prosecutor was created for one major networks but they gave up on the series and another early TV network called DuMont picked it up.
- Two perky teens explore every inch of the telephone exhibit at Seattle's fair.
- A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court to find out who framed his father and why.
- A live CBS half-hour dramatic anthology series, but on two networks in its second season (as "Bigelow-Sanford Theater"); Sunday evenings over CBS and Thursday evenings over DuMont.
- When a telephone company employee and his family are involved in an automobile accident, an examination is made of the variety of things which might have caused the accident, and a number of safe-driving rules and tips are explained in this documentary short subject.
- Waiting for her husband to finish song-writing so they can go on their postponed honeymoon, a woman dreams of new home decor with matching phones.
- In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known Podine Puffington (a life-size doll that Bergen would use as a comedy dancing partner). Orchestra leader Ray Noble becomes upset when Charlie tells him that Edgar has hired someone else as a pianist (who turns out to be the beautiful Diana Lynn) to perform a solo. In the last scene, Edgar and Charlie are the put on trial for witchcraft in Colonial Salem, Massachusetts and sentenced to be burned at the stake before escaping with the help of a fetching Indian maid.
- Bill sketches an animated person, Mr. Man, who takes us back through history to explain how people developed a need to communicate, and shows us devices that helped to do so.
- Mr. Paderewski performs classical piano works including Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which enhances the bond between two young lovers, just as his having previously played this same lovely melody had brought the girl's parents together.
- The teleplays normally concerned the various aspects of romance.
- Over a year in the making, this is the first major motion picture dealing with the many advances and potentials of modern oceanography, the science of the seas, exploring and explaining mysteries of the deep.
- 200650mNot Rated6.3 (115)VideoA look at America's contemporary predilection for superficial patriotic symbolism via consumerism.
- Tony Seymour and his partner Gaby Ramarios are a dance team who perform an Apache specialty number, which ends with Tony, via a steel waistcoat with a scabbard arrangement, getting a knife plunged into his back, but he is unharmed since Gaby is an expert knife thrower. They are auditioning for parts in "La Nouvelle Revue" which is to open in three weeks at the Alhambra of Paris. The star is Yvette Delange, described as "a beautiful woman who could not hide with the most perfect makeup the ravages of time." She also does not like rehearsals, but perks up at the sight of Tony. Alphonse de la Riviere, once a great star but now just an assistant to the producer Morel, winces when he hears this. Later, Yvette sends Alphonse to fetch Tony to her dressing room, and informs Tony that Gaby is not invited. Tony accepts her invitation. Gaby is not pleased. Yvette is found murdered, stabbed with a knife belonging to Gaby. And Gaby is charged with murder. Tony's mission now is to clear Gaby and find the real killer. Tony's suspects include Morel, Alphonse, Dubec the concierge and possibly Ninette Duval, a member of the chorus, who has her eye on Tony. She is also the only one who knows that Tony and Gaby are married.
- Things are getting too hot in New York City for "Joker" Finnigan and his gang, so they decide to move their activities to London. There, Inspector Gary of Scotland Yard is keeping a polite eye on them since "Joker" is planning a big robbery of a large department store, known as the House of a Thousand Windows. "Joker" forces an American actor named Riley to impersonate Mr. Sherwood, the store owner, as Riley and Mr. Sherwood are identical in appearance. Ronald Martin, store employee and nephew of Sherwood, is also fooled, but he is distracted by the romance he is having with another store employee, Joan.
- In the Yukon, Amaluk, a young Eskimo, sets off alone on a quest in order to prove his manhood and earn the right to hunt with the men and marry Sivalu, his sweetheart. While attempting to harpoon a seal, he is set adrift on an ice floe, separated from his dog team and carried to a remote region far from home. When his dogs return to his village without him, Sivalu and Amaluk's grandmother Kala, fearing for his life, hang up a pair of his boots to see if they swing, which is their way to divine whether he is alive or dead. Meanwhile, Amaluk is near death when he is rescued by reindeer herders, who nurse him back to health. After he has recuperated, Amaluk hunts down and kills marauding wolves as a way to repay the debt he owes his rescuers. When he is ready to return to his village, the herders present Amaluk with a kayak and provisions. After many adventures, he is almost home when he encounters the men of his tribe preparing for a whale hunt. They invite him to join them and, during the hunt, Amaluk harpoons a forty-five ton whale. Returning to the village with his prize, Amaluk is accorded the respect of his people and the right to claim Sivalu as his wife.
- This is the only known remaining film of a 1951 TV series of THE BUCKSKIN RANGERS, entitled "Lady Tenderfoot". Alibi's friend, Jess, who died three months earlier, had a niece that inherited his ranch. Alibi intends to meet her there to help her any way he can. He invites his two pals to join him. They decline until they see her picture Alibi left behind and change their minds. The beautiful girl and her little brother arrive by stage coach under great danger. The rangers help them.
- The story of a young married couple, a scatterbrained blonde, her husband, a put-upon salesman and his heavy handed boss.
- Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
- The residents of a small town are haunted by the ghost of Charlie McCarthy, who doesn't like the fact that they are a very careless bunch and are constantly putting themselves in danger.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two agents venture out to find a new star all while advertising the new 1952 "rocket" Oldsmobiles.
- At the dedication of a new road sign, Dan McGurk tells the story of his forebears and how they helped transform rutted dirt roads into the modern highways of today. He speaks of the benefits of the trucking industry and how it depends on the nation's roadways, and he rails against regulations that make the industry less efficient and profitable. After recounting the amounts the trucking industry pays in taxes, he watches the unveiling of the sign naming the highway The McGurk Way.
- A young mechanical genius invents a recording device that can play back the voices of the dead. Here, the voice is that of the genius's evil-dead grandmother. A woman whose malign influence scarred her own children for life and corrupted the innocence of her grandchildren.
- The story of the Echo communications satellite program, developed by Bell Laboratories, that eventually resulted in telephone calls being able to be made through satellites.
- Steve Randall, a private detective, is a disbarred lawyer who turned to detective work in the hope that he can become a lawyer again. He investigates murder and blackmail crimes and, in the last episode, is again admitted to the bar.
- On a cross-country Greyhound bus, passengers give historically dubious summaries of major landmarks. Riders include a grieving father of a fallen soldier and C-list celebrities of the 1950s.
- Film produced by AT&T which shows in a humorous way the handling of the different telephone switching equipments. The two main characters work as telephone switchers for their companies and it turns out that you have to be quite diplomatic in this job.
- TV host Arthur Godfrey takes controls of an Eastern Air Lines passenger plane to show us "behind the scenes' of a 1950's American airline company. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries and publicity films from my archives.
- A vacationing school teacher and her friend meet a cowboy on his way to a rodeo. The teacher and the cowboy fall in love while the travelogue camera takes in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, San Francisco, New England, Lake Louise and Niagra Falls.
- This short film shows the benefits of having an ADT alarm system for quickly detecting fires and intruders.