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The Mating Urge (1958)
Character: Narrator
An exploitation pot-boiler, posing as an anthropology art-film, and supposedly filmed by seventeen different cameraman in Africa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Bali, New Guinea and New Hebrides.
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This Theatre and You (1948)
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Produced in association with the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as part of a twelve part series called The Industry Film Project, meant to inform the public about specific facets of production and industry life. Movie theaters are located in most towns. They bring to the public not only one of the most affordable forms of mass entertainment but many other aspects of life through the films shown and through the theater's other uses. As a business, the theater is a vital part of the economic community, employing people, but also dependent on the public for its livelihood. The theater manager is the key person who ensures that every aspect of the theater runs smoothly. As the key business person for the establishment, he is also usually an integral part of business and community organizations in the town. He also ensures that the theater shows what the public wants to see, which can be a difficult task. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
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Let's Sing a Stephen Foster Song (1948)
Character: Narrator
A short in the Memories From Melody Lane series. This dramatization of Stephen Foster's life shows how the songwriter came to write four of his most popular tunes: "My Old Kentucky Home", "Old Folks at Home", "Beautiful Dreamer", and " De Camptown Races". After each song is performed, the audience is invited to sing along with the Melody Makers as the lyrics are displayed on title cards.
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The Narcotics Story (1958)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Semi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.
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Moonbeams (2001)
Character: Moon
With his father having an affair and his family growing apart, young Dave (Peter Haderlein) starts having conversations with the moon (Art Gilmore). When his relatives, psychologist (Castulo Guerra) and teacher (Mary-Joan Negro) think he's going crazy, Dave attempts to prove his new friend is real. This independent coming-of-age movie is a wholesome and heartwarming tale for the entire family.
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New Doorways to Learning (1953)
Character: Narrator
A video brochure for using visual aids in church shows scenes from various Cathedral Film productions. The film demonstrates how these audiovisual aids can bring biblical stories, teachings, and other subjects to life.
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So You Want to Build a House (1948)
Character: Narrator (voice)
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare.
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Here We Go Again (1952)
Character: Narrator (voice)
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair. tempers flair and a challenge to a boxing match is met. Edited and adapted from Hard Knocks and Love Taps (1921).
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Desert Killer (1953)
Character: Narrator
Desert Killer is a 1952 short film directed by Larry Lansburgh about a hunter tracking a sheep-killing mountain lion. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
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Cinderella Horse (1949)
Character: Narrator
A 1948 English language short film written and directed by De Leon Anthony, Harry O. Hoyt, and Edwin E. Olsen, starring Art Gilmore. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
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Grandad of Races (1950)
Character: Narrator
Grandad of Races is a 1950 American short documentary film about the Palio di Siena held in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, directed by André de la Varre. It won an Oscar at the 23rd Academy Awards in 1951 for Best Short Subject.
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Winter Paradise (1953)
Character: Narrator
Winter Paradise is a 1953 English language documentary directed by John Jay, starring Art Gilmore. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The Screen Director (1951)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview. Then a number of real directors are shown in archive footage (as well as a predominance of staged 'archive' footage) working with actors and crew.
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Big Trains Rolling (1955)
Character: Narrator
A production of the association of American Railroads outlining the wonders of America's rail system.
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Mainline U.S.A. (1957)
Character: Narrator
A documentary on the railroads of America produced by the Association of American Railroads
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Switzerland Sportland (1952)
Character: Narrator
A Sports Parade (though not officially titled as such) visit to Switzerland. Covered are a rowing competition in Lucerne, tennis matches and horse jumping set against the mighty Alpine scenery, Zug costumes, gymnastics "poetry in motion" and a flag parade.
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Action on the Beach (1964)
Character: Narrator
Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).
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Carnival in Rio (1954)
Character: Narrator
A three-day carnival featuring Momo the God of Pleasure and some floats designed by celebrated artists and sculptors.
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It's Done with Arrows (1947)
Character: Narrator
Howard Hill (1899-1975) was perhaps the most famous bowman (archer) of the mid 20th century (1930-50s). This short film covers some amazing skilled shooting, presented before an audience of 'admiring' younger ladies!
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Caribbean Playgrounds (1955)
Character: Narrator
A tour of sports played in the Caribbean in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. An airplane fly's over Puerto Rico. HA El Moro on San Juan Bay. Watch men playing golf on course in El Moro fort. Shots of water ski-ing and a baseball game in large stadium. Girls play softball, basketball team of University of Puerto Rico practice, men playing tennis. Horsemanship people riding Paco Fino horses. Street scenes of British Jamaica, policemen directing traffic. At racetrack, horses racing, polo and soccer games, shots of paople rafting down a river. Various shots in Montego Bay, beach, a rowboat with glass window in bottom, shots thru window, sailboat racing, fishing. Various, young boy catching a fish, man fighting marlin on line and marlin brought on board, shark gets away, flags run up to signal two catches, two marlin hung out displayed.
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Lost Planet Airmen (1951)
Character: Radio Voice
Feature version of the 1949 serial, KING OF THE ROCKETMEN: Young member of scientific group uses new rocket-powered flying suit to thwart shadowy saboteur known only as "Dr. Vulcan".
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Let's Sing a Song from the Movies (1948)
Character: Narrator (voice)
This audience sing-along features tunes from four musicals with the lyrics appearing on screen. Numbers include "Am I Blue?" from 1929's On with the Show!.
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Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight (1948)
Character: Narrator (voice)
In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.
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The Trojan Horse (1955)
Character: Narrator
The battle against Troy seems to be lost for Greece until General Ulysses comes up with a solution.
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Women at War (1943)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.
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So You Want to Hold Your Husband (1950)
Character: Soap Opera Narrator
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor. None of the courses of action she is advised to take have any impact on Joe, until she is advised to create the impression that she has left Joe for another man.
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On the Track (1948)
Character: Self (narrator)
This documentary explores the history of the railroads In America and their potential role in the post war era.
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Cavalcade of Dance (1943)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Let's Sing an Old Time Song (1947)
Character: Narrator (voice)
This short film focuses on four songs, "The Band Played On", "Daisy Bell" (a.k.a. "A Bicycle Built for Two"), "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine", and "The Man on the Flying Trapeze", that have become American standards.
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Saboteur (1942)
Character: Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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The Killing (1956)
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Calgary Stampede (1948)
Character: Narrator (voice)
The pageantry of Calgary's colorful celebration of its past, culminating with its world famous rodeo, is chronicled.
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Wiretapper (1955)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
Character: Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Character: President Franklin D. Roosevelt (voice) (uncredited)
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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It Should Happen to You (1954)
Character: Don Toddman (uncredited)
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city.
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So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
Character: Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.
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Mission to Moscow (1943)
Character: Commentator (uncredited)
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
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My Dream Is Yours (1949)
Character: N/A
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace him. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further, Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.
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The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
Character: Newsreel Announcer
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh.
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Johnny Cool (1963)
Character: N/A
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
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The Gallant Hours (1960)
Character: Narration (Japanese scenes)
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
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Squad Car (1960)
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
An accused man helps a policeman investigate an airplane mechanic's death and a counterfeit racket.
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The Nutty Professor (1963)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
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Appointment with Danger (1950)
Character: Narrator
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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Backlash (1947)
Character: Radio Commentator (Voice)
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
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The Voice That Thrilled the World (1943)
Character: Narrator (voice)
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.
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Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Character: Television Announcer (uncredited)
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
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Unchained (1955)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
This fact-based prison drama tells the tale of a band of prisoners living in the innovative 2,600-acre prison at Chino, California. The place takes a humanistic approach to reform and there are no armed guards, no lockups and no uniforms. The underlying philosophy is that if these things are not there, the prisoners will not want to escape, and will instead accept their punishment. A new inmate arrives and soon accustoms himself to the new idea. The story includes the Oscar nominated song Unchained Melody.
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King of the Rocket Men (1949)
Character: Newscaster
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.
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The Unsuspected (1947)
Character: Announcer (uncredited)
The secretary of an affably suave radio mystery host mysteriously commits suicide after his wealthy young niece disappears.
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Susan Slept Here (1954)
Character: Oscar (voice) (uncredited)
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.
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Suicide Battalion (1958)
Character: Captain Hendry (uncredited)
Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
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Rear Window (1954)
Character: Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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