Lowell Thomas Movies

  • 1946
    Along the Rainbow Trail

    Along the Rainbow Trail

    Along the Rainbow Trail

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    This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip...

    Along the Rainbow Trail
  • 1941
    About Faces

    About Faces

    About Faces

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    State of the American people's teeth during the Great Depression.

    About Faces
  • 1977
    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed

    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed

    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed

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    The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
  • 1937
    Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas

    Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas

    Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas

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    “Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking...

    Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas
  • 1930
    It's a Bird

    It's a Bird

    It's a Bird

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    Charlie, working on a junkjard, always trying to help people in the most impossible ways with junk from his work place, hears from a German...

    It's a Bird
  • 1954
    Out of This World

    Out of This World

    Out of This World

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    Filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and,...

    Out of This World
  • 1937
    Seeing Green

    Seeing Green

    Seeing Green

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    Inside the electrochemical "brain" of the traffic light.

    Seeing Green
  • 1976
    Yesterday's Witness

    Yesterday's Witness

    Yesterday's Witness

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    For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

    Yesterday's Witness
  • 1930
    Africa Speaks!

    Africa Speaks!

    Africa Speaks!

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    Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the...

    Africa Speaks!
  • 1948
    Driven to Kill

    Driven to Kill

    Driven to Kill

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    Stresses the necessity for the average American driver to realize fully his responsibility when behind the wheel. Illustrates that violations of safe...

    Driven to Kill
  • 1938
    Titans of the Deep

    Titans of the Deep

    Titans of the Deep

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    Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off...

    Titans of the Deep
  • 1933
    Inklings

    Inklings

    Inklings

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    An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a...

    Inklings
  • 1938
    Highlights and Shadows

    Highlights and Shadows

    Highlights and Shadows

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    Watson crafted a dazzling visual ballet that stands on its own as an aesthetically rewarding and educationally inspiring tour of the massive Kodak...

    Highlights and Shadows
  • 1956
    Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

    Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

    Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth

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    An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with...

    Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth
  • 1946
    The Lost Lake

    The Lost Lake

    The Lost Lake

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    Shot in gorgeous Cinecolor, an early subtractive two-color process, Lost Lake follows the famed Jesuit priest, geologist, and explorer Father Bernard...

    The Lost Lake
  • 1964
    Red China

    Red China

    Red China

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    A look at what goes on in China.

    Red China
  • 1942
    A Great Railroad at Work

    A Great Railroad at Work

    A Great Railroad at Work

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    A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse

    A Great Railroad at Work
  • 1964
    Polaroid Dealer Announcement

    Polaroid Dealer Announcement

    Polaroid Dealer Announcement

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    Introduces Polaroids marketing campaign for the year 1964, including TV commercials. Produced for dealers.

    Polaroid Dealer Announcement
  • 1961
    The Challenge of Ideas

    The Challenge of Ideas

    The Challenge of Ideas

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    Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc,...

    The Challenge of Ideas
  • 1932
    Wings over the Andes

    Wings over the Andes

    Wings over the Andes

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    An airborne documentary following the Shippee-Johnson expedition into the Andes..

    Wings over the Andes