Author Archive: Retro

Homeless man is chosen to represent the common man in a political good-will campaign. Dir. Bernard Vorhaus.

Inauguration of Richard Nixon

Documentary chronicling the individual, personal experiences of Pentecostal Christians at the Scrabble Creek Church in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia. Pentecostal Worship is expressive and lively in nature.

A study on a small Pentecostal congregation in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia.

This film describes how Puerto Rico, with too many people and too few resources, created an industrial economy and emerged from colonial rule to self – government. Governor Luis Muños Marin here decsribes his “Operation Bootstrap” program, interviewed on-camera with director Bill Deneen. The script was written by noted novelist and screenwriter Elmore Leonard.

STORY OF THE LITTLE BOY -THE DESTROYER. HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DESTROYER AND THE VARIOUS ASW WEAPONS ASSOCIATED WITH HER. FROM THE FIRST BAINBRIDGE TO THE MODERN NUCLEAR MODEL, THE STORY OF THE DESTROYER REVEALS THE SAGA OF WHAT MUST NOW BE CONSIDERED THE MOST VERSATILE, MOST DEMANDING SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY..”

his highly informative, well-made film focused on four geograophical areas: 1) Coyotepec, 2) Metepec (the art of Timotéo), 3) Tonalá (the work of Señores Palacios and Galván), 4) Puebla. Here we see low-fire pottery making as it was done by primitive methods before the potter’s wheel, and the manufacture of the beautiful blue and white Talavera and polychrome high-fire pottery of Puebla.

This documentary, funded by the United States Information Agency, covers the Presidency of the late John F. Kennedy. Narrated by Gregory Peck, the speeches of the charismatic Kennedy are the main focus of the feature, with short segments of the President and his family on their vacations. Kennedy gives his opinion on the controversies of his times, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Peace Corps, Civil Rights, combatting the spread of communism, and the proposed Alliance For Progress. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi