CATALOG OF COPYRIGHT ENTRIES
BELLE OF OLD MEXICO.
Republic Productions, Inc., 1950. 70 min., sd., color, 35mm.
Summary: A musical slapstick comedy in which a young college president learns that the "child" whose guardianship he assumed by a wartime pledge is in reality an attractive young lady.
Credits: Associate producer, Edward J. White; director, R. G. Springsteen; screenplay, Bradford Ropes, Francis Swann; music, Stanley Wilson; film editor, Harold Minter. Cast: Estelita Rodriguez, Robert Rockwell, Dorothy Patrick, Thurston Hall, Florence Bates.
© Republic Pictures Corp.; 20Jan50 (in notice: 1949); LP2896.
BELLS OF CORONADO.
Republic Pictures Corp., 1949. 67 min., sd., color, 35mm.
Summary: A modern-day Western in which Roy Rogers frustrates a plot to sell stolen uranium ore to a foreign power.
Credits: Producer, Edward J. White; director, William Witney; screenplay, Sloan Nibley; music. Dale Butts; orches- trations, Stanley Wilson; film editor, Tony Martinelli. Cast: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Grant Withers, Leo Cleary.
© Republic Pictures Corp.; 16Dec49; LP2756.
THE BEST WAY IS FOUR-WAY.
Jam Handy Organization, Inc., for Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp. © 1950. Filmstrip, 44 frames, b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Explains the advantages of Chevrolet's four-way oiling system and compares it to the full-pressure system used in Ford and Plymouth cars.
© Chevrolet Motor Division, General Motors Corp.; 1c 7Apr50; JU6355.
THE BET.
General Television Enterprises, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.
Summary: Motivated by greed, a self-indulgent braggart makes a wild bet that brings about his salvation.
Credits: Producer, director, and author of screenplay, Frank Wisbar; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 15Apr50 (in notice: 1949); LP47.
BEWARE OF BLONDIE.
Columbia Pictures Corp., 1950. 66 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Blondie comes to the rescue when a beautiful client swindles Dagwood out of $5, 000.
Credits: Producer, Milton Feldman; director, Edward Bernds; story, and screen-play. Jack Henley; film editor, Richard Fantl.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 14Mar50; LP2903.
BEYOND COMPARE.
Jam Handy Organization, Incr, for Hotpoint, Inc. © 1950. Filmstrip, 72 frames, b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Demonstrates the features of the Hotpoint electric range.
© Hotpoint, Inc.; 1c 15Jun50; JU6459.
BEYOND THE PURPLE HILLS.
Gene Autry Productions. Released by Columbia Pictures Corp., 1950. 7 reels, sd., color, 35mm.
Summary: By tricking a murderer into revealing his guilt. Sheriff Gene Autry clears a judge's son of blame for the murder of his father.
Credits: Producer, Armand Schaefer; director, John English; screenplay, Norman S. Hall; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Richard Fantl.
Cast: Gene Autry, Hugh O'Brien, Don Beddo, Jo Dennison, Don Reynolds.
© Gene Autry Productions; 11Apr50; LP66.
BIBLE HISTORY—OLD TESTAMENT.
Office Scolaire d'Etudes par le Film, Paris. Distributed in the U. S. by Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1949. Filmstrips, 804 frames, b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A series of eighteen filmstrips presenting stories from the Old Testament. English version.
© Catechetical Guild Educational Society 27Dec49; JP6239.
THE BICYCLE THIEF.
Produced by De Sica Production Co.; S. A. F. A. Studios in Rome. Released in the U. S. by Mayer-Burstyn, Inc., 1949. 90 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. In Italian with English titles. Based on Luigi Bartolini's novel of the same name.
Summary: Various facets of life in post-war Rome are revealed in the course of a futile search by a poor workingman and his young son for the family's stolen bicycle, vital in the father's trade.
Credits: Director, Vittorio De Sica; story and screenplay, Cesare Zavattini; English titles, Alfred Hayes; music, Alessandro Cicognini; film editor, Eraldo Da Roma. Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Enzo Staiola, Elena Altieri, Vittorio Antonucci.
© Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, Inc.; 13Dec49; LP2718.
THE BIG HANGOVER.
Loew's, Inc., 1950. An MGM picture. 82 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A comedy in which an idealistic young lawyer refuses a well-paying job in order to join the city attorney's staff.
Credits: Producer, director, and author of screenplay, Norman Krasna; music, Adolph Deutsch; film editor, Fredrick Y. Smith. Cast : Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Leon Ames, Fay Holden, Percy Waram.
© Loew's Inc.; 13Mar50 (in notice: 1949); LP2945.
BIG HOUSE BUNNY. (Bugs Bunny Special)
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., 1950. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm.
Credits: Director, I. Freleng; story, Tedd Pierce; animation, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Ken Cham- pion; music director, Carl Stalling.
© The Vitaphone Corp.; 30Mar50 (in notice: 1948); MP139.
THE BIG MAN.
Jam Handy Organization, Inc., for Dearborn Motors Corp. © 1950. Filmstrip, 54 frames, b&w, 35mm. Summary: Shows a happy supervisor-salesman relationship.
© Dearborn Motors Corp.; 1c 12May50; JU6396.
THE BIG WHEEL.
A Harry Popkin, Sam Stiefel, Jack Dempsey Production. Released through United Artists, 1949. 92 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Presents the career of a cocky young racing car driver from his early successes in midget auto races to an heroic defeat in the Indianapolis classic.
Credits: Producers, Samuel H. Stiefel, Mort Briskin; director, Edward Ludwig; screenplay, Robert Smith; musical composition and direction, Nat W. Finston; orchestrations, Joseph Nussbaum, Paul Marquardt: film editor, Walter Thompson.
Cast : Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Michael O'Shea, Mary Hatcher, Spring Byington.
© Samuel H. Stiefel Productions; 4Nov49; LP2848.
THE BIGGEST LITTLE RANGE IN THE WORLD.
Jam Handy Organization, Inc., for Frigidaire Division, General Motors Corp. © 1950. Filmstrip, 72 frames, b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Demonstrates the features of the Frigidaire electric range.
© Frigidaire Division, General Motors Corp.; 1c 7Apr50; JU6352.
BILLS AND FEET OF BIRDS.
JP143. SEE Nature Study Illustrated.
BIRD STUDIES FROM COAST TO COAST.
JP139. SEE Nature Study Illustrated.
BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS.
JP138. SEE Nature Study Illustrated.
BLACK HAND.
Loew's Inc., 1950. An MGM picture. 93 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A policeman of Italian origin and a young Italian whose father was murdered by the Mafia or Black Hand society, work together to destroy the secret organization which terrorized New York's "Little Italy" in the early twentieth century.
Credits: Producer, William H. Wright; director, Richard Thorpe; story, Leo Townsend; screenplay, Luther Davis; music, Alberto Colombo; film editor, Irvine Warburton. Cast: Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley.
© Loew's Inc.; 18Jan5O (in notice: 1949); LP2805.
THE BLONDE BANDIT.
Republic Pictures Corp., 1949. 60 min, sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A young woman, forced by the police has befriended her, falls in love with him.
Credits: Associate producer, Sidney Picker; director, Harry Keller; screen- play, John K. Butler; music, Stanley Wilson; film editor, Arthur Hilton. Cast: Dorothy Patrick, Gerald Mohr, Robert Rockwell, Larry J. Blake, Charles Cane. © Republic Pictures Corp.; 28Dec49; LP2843.
BLONDE DYNAMITE.
Monogram Pictures Corp., 1950. 66 min., sd., b&w, 35min. Summary: Using the Bowery Boys' ice cream parlor as a starting point, a gang of robbers plot to rob a nearby bank via an underground tunnel.
Credits: Producer, Jan Grippo; director, William Beaudine; screenplay, Charles R. Marion; music director, Edward J. Kay; film editor, Willianti Austin. Cast: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Adele Jergens, Gabriel Dell, Harry Lewis.
© Monogram Pictures Corp.; 12Feb50; LP3.
BLONDIE'S HERO.
Columbia Pictures Corp., 1950. 60 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on Chic Young's "Blondie" comic. Summary: A confidence man who has fraudulently sold the Bumsteads' house is given a thorough thrashing by a toughened Dagwood, just back from a weekend's training with the Army Reserve Corps.
Credits: Producer, Ted Richmond; director, Edward Bernds; screenplay. Jack Henley; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Aaron Stell. Cast: Arthur Lake, Penny Singleton, William Frawley.
© Columbia Pictures Corp.; 31Jan50; LP2809.
BLUE GRASS OF KENTUCKY.
Monogram Pictures Corp., 1950. 72 min., sd., color, 35mm.
Summary: A race horse's victory in the Derby unites two rival horse-breeding families. Incorporates shots of actual Kentucky Derby races.
Credits: Producer, Jeffrey Bernerd; director, William Beaudine; screenplay, W. Scott Darling; music director, Ozzie Caswell; film editor, Roy Livingston. Cast : Bill Williams, Jane Nigh, Ralph Morgan, Robert (Buzz) Henry, Russell Hicks.
© Monogram Pictures Corp.; 22Jan50; LP148.
BLUE HAWAII. (Screen Song)
Paramount Pictures Inc., 1950. 7 min., sd., color.
