![]() Unknown UPC number (reissued as UPC 8-83929-67577-7), unknown ISBN number. Warner Home Video, unknown catalog number, The Jazz Singer (1927), black & white, 89 minutes, not rated. Reputedly the first sound film (but we know better, don’t we?). Reviews of silent film releases on home video. ![]() With Kathleen Freeman, Howard J.Silent Era Home Page > Home Video > The Jazz Singer With John Baragrey, Phyllis Morris, Marcia Mae Jones, and Morris Ankrum With Nana Bryant won an Oscar for Best One-Reel Short Subject With Dean Stockwell, Connie Gilchrist, Clancy Cooper, and Chick York John Walker's invention of the friction match With Harold Knerr ( The Katzenjammer Kids), Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith), Frank King ( Gasoline Alley), Chester Gould ( Dick Tracy), Dick Calkins ( Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates), Chic Young ( Blondie and Dagwood), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an' Slats), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka), Hal Foster ( Prince Valiant), Harold Gray ( Little Orphan Annie) and Al Capp ( Li'l Abner) The beginning of the comic strips, also known as funny papers. With Wolfgang Zilzer and Gene Roth won an Oscar for Best One-Reel Short Subject Rene Laennec's invention of the stethoscope Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanized rubber With Don Taylor, Ernie Alexander, Fred Toones, and Margaret Bert With Paul Guilfoyle, Dorothy Vaughan, and Walter BaldwinĬhristiaan Eijkman's discovery of vitamins With Ava Gardner, Dorothy Morris, and Mark Daniels With John Harmon, Barbara Bedford, and Ray Teal With Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Taylor, Myrna Loy, Mickey Rooney, and Franklin D. With Peter Cushing, Emmett Vogan, and Louis Jean Heydt Story of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross With Leonard Penn, directed by Jacques Tourneur These episodes can also be found as DVD extras accompanying some MGM films. The shorts in their original form were eventually re-aired (and as of 2022 are still being aired) on Turner Classic Movies. The films were re-edited for television syndication by MGM in the early 1960s. The directors included Fred Zinnemann and Jacques Tourneur. Most of the films featured the slow movement of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. ![]() The series of Passing Parade one-reel short subjects were produced for MGM from 1938 to 1949. Radio producer/announcer John Doremus later acquired the rights to the series and revived it as a late 1950s-early 1960s syndicated feature, billing his version as "from the files of John Nesbitt." Over 1500 three-minute episodes were broadcast. The Passing Parade was heard as a segment on The John Charles Thomas Show (1943-1946). Nesbitt has disproved the bromide because he's Nesbitt and spins a yarn that's as tight as an Armistice announcement." Koehler described the unusual nature of the program in a review in the July 31, 1943, issue of Billboard: "There was a time when no one could be sold the idea that one man, without much musical help, could fill a half hour and hold his audience. Nesbitt, who usually presented his stories without sound effects or music, utilized a research staff of 14 people in verifying the details of his tales, but wrote the final scripts himself, often within an hour of airtime. Nesbitt's inspiration was a trunk left to him by his father which contained news clippings of odd stories from around the world. The radio series, developed as an outgrowth of an earlier Nesbitt-produced program ( Headlines of the Past), was launched on the NBC network on February 1, 1937, running off and on until 1951 over three different networks and in syndication. In both media, the series usually focused on strange but true historical events, both little known and famous, as well as figures such as Catherine de' Medici and Nostradamus. John Nesbitt's Passing Parade, was an American radio series created, written, and narrated by John Nesbitt which was adapted into an Oscar-winning series of MGM short subjects.
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