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MOTION PICTURES AND FILMSTRIPS

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director and photographer, Howard Winner; written by Edward Rice; narrator, Andre Baruch; music, Clare Grundman; editor, Harold Oteri.

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THE BABY SITTER.

Young America Films, Inc., 1949. 15 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Points out the important do's and don'ts for baby sitters. Designed for youth and community groups.

Credits: Author, Lewis S. Baer.

BACKFIRE.

Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., 1950. 91 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Previously entitled "Somewhere in the City."

Summary: A melodrama about a war veteran's efforts to find his missing buddy and clear him of a murder charge.

Credits: Producer, Anthony Veiller; director, Vincent Sherman; story, Larry Marcus; screenplay, Larry Marcus, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts; music director, Ray Heindorf; music, Daniele Amfitheatrof; film editor, Thomas Reilly. Cast : Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O'Brien, Dane Clark, Viveca Lindfors.

BACKGROUND FOR BEAUTY.

Summary: Scenes of the Ferry-Morse Seed Company breeding and experimental stations and testing laboratory. Points out that beautiful and healthy gardens come only from quality seeds.

BALANCE AMONG LIVING THINGS.

JP125. SEE Plants and Animals.

BANDIT, BANKER, AND BLONDE.

Ace Pictures, Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd. , b&w, 16mm.

Summary: An outlaw's plot to assume the identity of his twin brother, a respected banker whom he has killed, is thwarted by his brother's self-seeking fiancé.

Credits: Producer, Louis Brandt; director, Lewis D. Collins; screenplay, Arthur St. Claire; film editor, Henry Adams.

BANKING AND MONETARY CONTROL.

A Transfilm production for McGraw-Hill Book Co. , Inc., 1950. Filmstrip, 43 frames, b&w, 35mm. Correlated with Paul A. Samuelson's textbook "Economics, an Introductory Analysis."

Summary: Describes the genesis of money and the formation of bank deposits. Explains the operations and policies of the Federal Reserve system. Sixth in a series on economics for college classes.

Credits: Technical adviser, Paul A. Samuelson.

BARBARY PIRATE.

Columbia Pictures Corp., 1949. 64 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: The Bey of Tripoli, preying on American merchant ships in the early nineteenth century, is overthrown by the efforts of a U. S. Army major, acting as a secret agent.

Credits: Producer, Sam Katzman; director. Lew Landers; screenplay, Robert Libott, Frank Burt; film editor, James Sweeney. Cast : Donald Woods, Trudy Marshall, Lenore Aubert, Stefan Schnabel, Ross Ford.

BARNYARD SKIING. (Sportscope, no. 5)

RKO Pathe, Inc., 1950. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Shows how Erling Wiig ski-jores across the snowless California countryside.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; written by Joseph Walsh; narrator, Andre Baruch; music supervisor, Herman Fuchs.

THE BARON OF ARIZONA.

Deputy Corp. Released by Lippert Productions, Inc., 1950. 97 min., sd. , b&w, 35mm.

Summary: An obscure clerk in the Arizona land office spends a decade falsifying records for a gigantic fraud that gives him ownership of the Arizona territory in 1872. Based in part on historical fact.

Credits: Producer, Carl K. Hittleman; director and author of screenplay, Samuel Fuller; music, Paul Dunlap; film editor, Arthur Hilton. Cast : Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley.

BARRICADE.

Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., 1950. 75 min., sd., color, 35mm.

Summary: In a mining camp operated by a murderous owner who uses escaped convict labor, a tense drama of retribution unfolds.

Credits: Producer, Saul Elkins; director, Peter Godfrey; screenplay, William Sackheim; music, William Lava; orchestrations, Charles Maxwell; film editor, Clarence Kolster. Cast : Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman, Robert Douglas, Morgan Farley.

BASIC COURT PROCEDURES.

Coronet. 1949. 13 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Sunamary: Explains the function of the courts, shows how our laws operate, defines legal terms, and indicates the place of the judicial system in a democracy. For high school, college, and adult groups.

Credits; Educational collaborator, Fred Inbau.

BASIC ECONOMIC CONCEPTS.

A Transfilm production for McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1950. Filmstrip, 46 frames, b&w, 35mm. Correlated with Paul A. Samuelson's textbook "Economics, and Introductory Analysis."

Summary: Describes the chief aspects of modern capitalistic economy and the various forms of economic organization. Discusses the fundamentals of government taxation and expenditure. First in a series on economics for college classes.

Credits: Technical adviser, Paul A. Samuelson.

BASKETBALL HEADLINERS OF 1950.

RKO Pathe, Inc., 1950. 15 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Presents outstanding basketball plays and players for 1950.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; narrator, Marty Glickman; editor, David Cooper.

BATMAN AND ROBIN.

Columbia Pictures Corp., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on characters created by Bob Kane in the cartoon strip of the same title.

Credits: Producer, Sam Katzman; director, Spencer Bennet, written by George H. Plympton, Joseph P. Poland, and Royal K. Cole.

3. Robin's Wild Ride. © 10Jan50 (in notice: 1949); LP6.

A BATTLE OF NERVES.

SEE The Man on the Eiffel Tower. LP2829.

BATTLE SCENE.

General Television Enterprises, Inc., 1949. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: The last moments of a mortally-wounded soldier's life are made happy by his discovery of his long-lost brother.

Credits: Producer, director, and author of screenplay, John Reinhardt; film editor, Victor C. Lewis.

THE BEATSALL DAIRY PLAN.

Paul Hance Productions, Inc., for Kasco Mills, Inc., 1950. 19 min., sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: Explains why use of the Beatsall feeding plan increases milk production. Shows how the Wayscoop measures the feed and how the Kascolator determines the amount of feed in accordance with the type of roughage being fed.

BEAUTY AND THE BEACH. (Variety View, no. 180)

Universal Pictures Co., Inc., 1949. 9min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A comedy about the various types of people who go to the beach.

Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; director. Arthur Cohen; narrator. Jack Costello; film editor, Edward Bartsch.

BEAUTY ON PARADE.

Columbia Pictures Corp., 1950. 66 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Summary: A frustrated beauty contest winner of twenty years ago grooms her daughter for the same honor despite opposition led by her long-suffering husband.

Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director. Lew Landers; story, Arthur E. Orloff; screenplay, Arthur E. Orloff, George Bricker; film editor. Aaron Stell.

THE BED BY THE WINDOW.

Pyramid Productions. Inc., 1950. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: A mentally and physically sick man allows another patient to die in order to acquire his bed near the window.

Credits; Producer, director, and author of screenplay. Jack Bernhard.

BEE KEEPING. (Food. Folk, and Farming Series)

Common Ground Ltd., London, 1950. Made in collaboration with the Filmstrip Advisory Panel of the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs. Filmstrip, 53 frames, b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Explains how to raise bees and to produce honey successfully.

Credits: Author, Reginald Gamble.

BEHIND THE WINDOW.

Louis de Rochemont Corp., for E. R. Squibb & Sons, 1950. 3 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Shows the extensive research being conducted in the Squibb laboratories and the progress made in the discovery of antibiotics. Emphasizes the education and training of the Squibb staff.

Credits: Producer. Louis de Rochemont; director. Victor J. Jurgens; script, Curtis Tolder; narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis; music. Jack Shaindlin; film editor, Angelo Ross.