MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS
DAVY CROCKETT, INDIAN SCOUT. Edward Small Productions, Inc. Released through United Artists Corp., 1950. 71 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Previously entitled "Indian Scout."
Summary: A Western in which a frontiersman prevents the massacre of the pioneers he is guiding through hostile Indian country.
Credits: Associate producers. Grant Whytock, Bernard Small; director. Lew Landers; story. Ford Beebe; screenplay, Richard Schayer; music, Paul Sawtell; film editors, Stuart Frye, Kenneth Crane. Cast: George Montgomery, Ellen Drew, Philip Reed, Noah Beery, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle.
© Reliance Pictures, Inc.; 7Jan50; LP2745.
A DAY IN CONGRESS. (This Is Washington,
no. 1) Hullinger Productions. Released
by Instructional Films, Inc., 1950.
18 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.
Summary: Portrays Congress in action and interprets the processes of legislation in the representative two-party Congress. Shows the members of Congress at work in their offices conferring with constituents. Includes scenes of committee sessions, the American free press in action, page boys on the job and at school, and the President speaking before a joint session of both Houses.
Credits: Producer and director, Edwin Ware Hullinger; director and photographer, Luigi DeAngelis; narrator. Miller McClintock; film editor, Dudley Spruill.
© Edwin Ware Hullinger; 26May50; MP177.
DEAR WIFE. Paramount Pictures Inc. ,
1950. 88 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based
on characters created by Norman Krasna.
Summary: Father and son-in-law find
themselves rival candidates for the same
office as a result of a teen-aged youngster's political manoeuvring. Sequel
to "Dear Ruth."
Credits: Producer, Richard Maibaum; director, Richard Haydn; screenplay, Arthur Sheekman, N. Richard Nash; music, Joseph J. Lilley, Van Cleave; film editor, Archie Marshek. Cast: William Holden, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold.
© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 17Feb5 (in notice: 1949); LP2857.
DECIMAL FRACTIONS. Johnson Hunt
Productions, 1948. 11 min., sd., b&w,
16mm.
Summary: Explains the meaning of the term decimaal fraction and shows the relationship between decimal fractions and common fractions. Illustrates how a working knowledge of decimal fractions is useful when applied to everyday mathematical problems.
© Johnson Hunt Productions; 5Jun48; MP17.
THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES.
JP6080. SEE Report on the News,
Jan. 1950.
THE DEMONSTRATION. Rockett Pictures,
Inc., for DeSoto, 1950 Filmstrip, 98
frames, b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A training film for DeSoto dealers and salesmen.
Credits: Author, William H. Cary.
© Rockett Pictures, Inc.; 15Jun50; JP265.
THE DEN MEETING PLACE. Boy Scouts
of America, 1949. Filmstrip, 51 frames,
color, 35mm.
Summary: Explains the importance of the meeting place in the Cub Scout program.
© Boy Scouts of America; 1Dec49; JP6211.
DENTAL HEALTH: HOW AND WHY. Coronet, 1949. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.
Summary: Presents a review of what research and experimentation have done to promote better dental health for the American public. For intermediate, high school, and adult groups.
Credits: Educational collaborator, Maury Massler.
© David A. Smart; 310ct49; MP119.
DESTINATION BIG HOUSE. Republic
Pictures Corp., 1950. 60 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A melodrama in which a schoolteacher, innocently involved in a scandal, is bequeathed $80, 000 by a trying gangster whom she befriended.
Credits: Associate producer, William Lackey; director, George Blair; story, Mortimer Braus; screenplay, Eric Taylor; music, Stanley Wilson; film editor, Tony Martinelli. Cast : Dorothy Patrick, Robert Rockwell, James Lydon, Robert Armstrong, Larry J. Blake.
© Republic Pictures Corp.; 8Jun50; LP172.
DETOURING THRU MAINE. (Screen Song)
Paramount Pictures Corp., 1950. 7 min.,
sd., color, 35mm.
Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Larz Bourne; animation, Al Eugster. Bill Hudson.
© Paramount Pictures Corp.; 17Feb50; MP5056.
DEVELOPING ROLL FILM. JP254. SEE
Photographic Darkroom Procedures,
no. 1.
DEVELOPING SHEET FILM AND FILM
PACKS. JP234. SEE Photographic
Darkroom Procedures, no. 2.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS AND
APPARATUS. SEE The Plough. JPO-33.
THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. SEE
The Devil's Due. LP2866.
DEVIL'S DOORWAY. Loew's Inc. 1950.
An MGM picture. 84 min., sd., b&w,
35mm.
Summary: An Indian, an heroic Civil War veteran, returns home to Wyoming to encounter prejudice from greedy white men who covet the land he is to lose under the homestead laws.
Credits: Producer, Nicholas Nayfack; director, Anthony Mann; screenplay, Guy Trosper; music, Daniele Amfitheatrof; film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. Cast: Robert Taylor, Louis CaEiern, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, James Mitchell.
© Loew's Inc.; 12May50 (in notice: 1949); LP115.
THE DEVIL'S DUE. Pyramid Productions,
Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.
Based on Washington Irving's story,
"The Devil and Tom Walker."
Summary: Cupidity brings a man of old Salem into the hands of the Devil. Credits: Producer, director, and author of screenplay. Will Fowler.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 6Mar50 (in notice: 1949); LP2866.
THE DEWEY STORY. Time Inc., for the
Republican National Connmittee, 1948.
1 reel, sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: The story of the career of Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Includes scenes taken from his private and political life and concludes with his nomination for president in 1948.
© Republican National Committee; 30Sep48; MP111.
DIAMOND SHOWCASE. (Sportscope, no. 3)
RKO Pathe, Inc., 1949. 9 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.
Summary: Shows the comfort and efficient operation of the Seals Stadium, a model baseball park in San Francisco.
Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director and photographer, Harry W. Smith; written by Joseph Walsh; narrator. Red Barber; editor, Isaac Kleinerman.
© RKO Pathe, Inc.; 18Nov49; MP4966.
DID'JA KNOW? (Pete Smith Specialty.
Have You Ever Wondered, no. 3) Loew's
Inc., 1950. An MGM picture. 8 min.,
sd., b&w, 35mm.
Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay; screenplay, Joe Ansen, David Barclay, suggested by material appearing in Pageant Magazine; film editor, Joseph Dietrick. Cast: Dave O'Brien.
© Loew's Inc.; 12Apr50 (in notice: 1949); LP112.
DIMINISHED IRIS. Josephine Booth, 1949.
12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.
Summary: A dance-drama. Photographed in the Greek Theatre at Mills College, Oakland, Calif.
Credits: Photographer, William Heick.
© Josephine Booth; 28Dec49; MP5027.
DINNER FOR THREE. Pyramid Productions,
Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd. , b&w, 16mm.
Summary: A young married woman, excited at the prospect of a visit from a form- er suitor, is completely deflated when she discovers he is now a happily-married family man.
Credits: Producer and director. Jack Bernhard; screenplay. Fay Baker.
© General Television Enterprises, Inc.; 6Mar5 (in notice: 1949); LP2871.
DISC JOCKEYS, U.S.A. MP5041. SEE
Screen Snapshots. Series 29.
DISPLAY RIGHT—SELL MORE. Jam
Handy Organization, Inc., for Swift & Co.
© 1950. Filmstrip, 69 frames, b&w,
35mm.
Summary: Illustrates several important points in the displaying of foods. © Swift & Co.; 1c 7Apr50; JU6377.
DISSECTION OF THE FROG. Herbert W.
Reach and Marvin H. Cohn, 1950. Filmstrip, 38 frames, color, 35mm.
Summary: Views of dissected male and female frogs.
© Herbert W. Reach, Marvin H. Cohn; 23May50; JP259.
DISTILLATION. American Institute of
Chemical Engineers. © 1950. Filmstrip,
60 frames, b&w. 35mm.
Summary: Presents the photographs and diagrams pertaining to the general subject of distillation which were projected by Dr. Walter L. Badger in connection with the meeting of the Institute in Pittsburgh on Dec. 6, 1949.
© American Institute of Chemical Engineers; 1c 9Feb50; JU6232.
DISTRIBUTING HEAT ENERGY. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. , 1949. Filmstrip, 78 frames, b&w, 35mm. Based on
the classroom film of the same title.
Summary: Shows the common fuels which
are used as sources of heat energy, the
common types of home furnaces and how
they work, and the ways by which heat is
transferred.
© Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.; 28Dec49; JP6196.
DIVING MANIACS. (Sports Review) Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 1949.
9 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.
Summary: A comic presentation of diving stunts at Silver Springs, Fla.
Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; director, Tom Cummiskey; narrator, Charles E. Slocum; music, L. deFrancesco; film editor, Arthur Lincer.
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