Author Archive: Retro

The Battle of Britain was the fourth of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War. It was released in 1943 and concentrated on the German bombardment of the United Kingdom in anticipation of Operation Sea Lion, the planned German invasion.

The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.

A compilation film, produced by the American Museum of Natural History, with footage from six major expeditions of the 20th-Century; the Stoll-McCracken Siberian Artic expedition, for the American Museum of Natural History, on the schooner “Morrissery.”; the exploration of Borneo and Bali by Gene Lamb; an African expedition by James L. Clark, vice-director of the American Museum of Natural History; the Imperial-Trans-Atlantic Expedition under the guidance of Lieutenant Commander J. R. Stenhouse that made it to the Ross Sea; footage from the Byrd Antartic Expedition, shot by Dr. Laurence E. Gould, geologist and second-in- command; and footage from the Tarlano Ethnological Expedition of the Amazon River by Harold Noice.

The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.

The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Rae Lane entices her workaholic boss to come to a nudist camp in the hopes of winning his heart. Things go swimmingly, until attractive and pert blond Barbara captures his attention.

Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence.

Melodrama warns against the threat of forced female sterilization. Watch for Writer/Director Wilbur as “Father O’Brien”. Dir. Crane Wilbur.

Townspeople want to sterilize a woman because her family is regarded as a bunch of derelicts and it is feared that her children will be the same.
100% hysterical! This ancient cry for the end of forced sterilisation will have you bewildered, and laughing. The Board of Health wishes to streilise a family of nitwits. The parents are lazy boozehounds well past 70 years old, yet they have infant children! Their oldest daughter is up for the operation, but she’s normal wants to marry some nice guy, and have kids. Highlights include a courtroom scene where a judge decides if an insane young man is to be sterilised.