Directing
Old Original Footage of the 1945 Toronto Maple Leaf's Team.
16th-century swashbuckler; evil nobleman usurps another man's title and properties and forces his daughter to marry a political ally. But Cruz Diablo will have revenge!
Columbia Short film from Cypress gardens 1944 with a bunch of ladies doing water sports.
With the opening of its winter carnival, Ste-Agathe-des-Monts in Québec's Laurentian mountains becomes the centre for a variety of competitive winter sports. Parades and floats take over the streets of Ste-Agathe and the mayor gives the signal for the carnival to commence. It begins with ice skating for the children, followed by horse-drawn sled and sulky races, a three day International Dog Sled Race and downhill ski races.
A lounge singer tries to adjust to rock 'n' roll music.
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Comedy short about Buddy Hackett as an incompetent bowler.
The story of Willie Hoppe, world-champion billiard player for more than fifty years, even into his seventies. Commentator Bill Stern describes Hoppe's abilities as the camera catches the match played at the New York Athletic Club, which Hoppe easily wins while playing against a much-younger opponent. The reel concludes with Hoppe demonstrating some of the tricks he can perform with a pool cue and a ball.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary taking a satirically narrated look at the "Windy City".
This Columbia "Thrills of Music" short (production number 6952) headlines the Boyd Raeburn Orchestra, who lead off playing "Temptation." Band vocalist Ginny Powell sings "St. Louis Blues" and Teddy Walters sings the Nat 'King' Cole Hit Parade song "Ballerina." Dancer Nancy Doran provides the ballet background for the last song.
Travelogue featuring New Orleans, its music, and its Mardi Gras.
Includes the segments, "Bop Boogie", "Sabre Dance" and "Disc Jockey Jump" by Gene and the band with vocalist Dolores Hawkins and introduced by Disc Jockey Fred Robbins.
Ted Atkinson, the winningnest jockey on American racetracks is the subject for this Columbia World of Sports short. He is shown working out his mounts and then racing them at various racetracks in America.
A short sports documentary exploring a resort with many sports champions in attendance.
Sportscaster Bill Stern drops in at the bowling alley---before they went uptown and became bowling lanes--- and exchanges some commentary with bowling pros Ned Day and Joe "The Fabulous" Felcaro. Ned and "Fabulous" then put on an exhibition of the skills that made both tops in their field at the time.
