IT’S WAR!!!!
| featuring: NO PLACE TO HIDE (1982), During the ‘40s & '50s, the U.S. media in an effort to smooth public concern over the threat of nuclear destruction produced a series of propaganda films which were a combination of deliberate misinformation & hilarious naivete.Made up of vintage films, newsreels,cartoons & TV rogrammess. Narrated by: MARTIN SHEEN. Dirs: Tom Johnson, Lance Bird. [THE WORLD OF TOMMORROW (1985)]. 29 mins. CAC. |
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| PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS (1980), Henry Lincoln breaks through barriers set up by innumerable interpreters which have obscured the real Nostradamus& reveals what the man himself was like and what he actually wrote. Great Mysteries Series. Prod Co: British Broadcasting Corporation. Prod: Antonia Benedek. 37 mins. CAC. |
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| FELLOW AMERICANS (1942), World War II documentary depicting the impact of the deaths of four United States servicemen in their home towns- a seaman from Grand Rapids,Michigan, an airman from Tampa, Florida,a soldier from New York,& a marine from PortArthur,Texas. Prod Co: Office for Emergency Management. Dir: GARSON KANIN. Wr: Wallace Russell. Mus: OSCAR LEVANT. Narr: Lt. JAMES STEWART. 10 mins. NFVLS. |
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| THE WAY THE EAGLE SHITS: AN ESSAY BY AL LEVIN (1975), Brilliantly scathing satirical expozay of the Capitalist ethos & Multinationalism,with magnificent use of found footage.A dynomite film-essay by journalist, Mike Levin. 11 mins. CAC. |
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| FALLING HARE (1943), A rare occasion on which BUGS BUNNY is fall-guy,here to a gremlin who lures him into a plane which the gremlin plans to sabotage. MERRIE MELODIES cartoon. Warner Bros Pictures. Dir: BOB CLAMPETT. Wr: Warren Foster. Anim: Rod Scribner. 8 mins. NFVLS. HOT SPOT (1943), A'Private Snafu' cartoon included in 'Army-Navy Screen Magazine,shown exclusively in the armed services.The purpose of this one was to acquaint military personnel with conditions in Iran. A LOONEY TUNES cartoon. Prod Co: Warner Brothers Pictures. 5 mins. NFVLS. |
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TIME BOMB (1941), (ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, Ch. 3) The heroine Betty, is captured by The Scorpion. Billy pursues the Scorpion in a plane in which a bomb has been planted. Prod Co: Republic Pictures. Dir: William Witney, John English. Wrs: Ronald Davidson... [et al.] Phot: William Nobles. Mus: Cy Fever. Eds: Edward Todd, Charles Thompson. Cast: Tom Tyler (Captain Marvel), Frank Coghlan, Jr. (Billy Batson), William Benedict (Whitey). 17 mins. NFVLS. CINEMA (1973), Afghanistan, the "Switzerland of Asia",has about 12million inhabitants & TWELVE cinemas (at least it did when this was made in '73!). To one of these cinemas, the admission is one afghani. (Accorded Award of Merit, Oberhausen). Prod/Dir: Sebastian C. Schroeder. 3 mins. NFVLS. |
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