Author Archive: Retro

A Greyhound bus transports us through the landscape of American mythology. Directed by Harold Schuster. Director of Photography: Jerry Fairbanks. Screenplay: Charles L. Tedford, Leo S. Rosencrans. Film Editor: Milton Kleinberg. Art Director: Theobold Holsopple. Production Supervisor: John McKennon. Musical Supervision: Edward Paul. Assistant Director: Robert Scrivner. With Marshall Thompson (Mysterious Stranger); Tommy Kirk (Jimmy Rollins); Morris Ankrum (Fred Schroder); Angie Dickinson (Mary); Charles Maxwell (Bill Roberts) and Tex Ritter as himself. Winner of the Freedoms Foundation Special Award.

Osa Johnson and her husband, Martin, appear in footage from their trips to the South Seas and Africa.

Albert Schweitzer is an 80-minute color documentary on the life of the famed doctor/humanitarian. The film is essentially divided into two sections: The first details Schweitzer’s youth in Austria, via still pictures and reconstructed scenes featuring Schweitzer’s own grandson. The second half dwells upon Schweitzer’s tireless medical efforts at his Lambarene hospital in French Equatorial Africa. The narration, based upon Schweitzer’s own writings, is spoken by Fredric March and Burgess Meredith. Though the color photography by Eric Anderson is uneven (understandably, considering filming conditions in Africa), Albert Schweitzer is a superbly mounted testimonial to the then 80-year-old physician.

A homeless woman living at the city dump hears of the death of a wealthy industrialist and puts in a claim on his estate for her daughter, who is actually the rightful heir.

Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.

Slum conditions, slum clearance, bright new public housing.

SALVAGE OPERATIONS FROM TIME OF THE FIRE TO DRYDOCKING THE SHIP. WORK OF SALVAGE ENGINEERS AND DIVERS, DESIGN AND PLACEMENT OF PATCHES, SHORING DECKS AND BULKHEADS, PLACEMENT OF PUMPS, STOPPING LEAKS WITH CONCRETE, AND MOORING THE SHIP DURING PUMPING

Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It is the oldest surviving film in existence, noted by the Guinness Book of Records. It was recorded at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds.

According to Le Prince’s son, Adolphe, the film was made at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, on October 14, 1888.

It features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley in the garden, walking around. Note that Sarah is walking backwards as she turns around, and that Joseph’s coat tails are flying as he also is turning. Sarah Whitley was Le Prince’s mother-in-law, being the mother of his wife, Elizabeth. Sarah Whitley died ten days after the scene was taken.