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| Eyes of the Navy | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1940-10-26 | Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced tr… |
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| The Old South | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1940-01-20 | This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America’s Old South…. |
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| Twenty Years After | Narrator (voice) | 1944-01-01 | This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases…. |
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| You Can’t Fool a Camera | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1941-05-23 | This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadward Muybridge’s photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are ti… |
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| We Must Have Music | Narrator | 1942-01-01 | A short history of movie music is presented, from silent films accompanied by a single piano, to the elaborate song scores for musicals (with scenes f… |
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| The Horse with the Human Mind | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1946-10-24 | This short film focuses on Bess, considered to be the smartest horse in the movies, as she works with her trainer…. |
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| The City of Little Men | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1938-11-21 | The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys…. |
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| Northward, Ho! | Narrator (voice) | 1940-02-10 | Behind-the-scenes promotional featurette to publicize the epic outdoor adventure Northwest Passage filmed on location in Idaho…. |
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| Another Romance of Celluloid: Electrical Power | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1938-12-31 | This short begins at Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam). The electricity generated here by the Colorado River is sent to Hollywood, where movie studios need… |
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| The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1937-01-01 | This short film chronicles various events associated with MGM’s 1937 convention for the studio’s national sales and distribution staff…. |
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| Personalities | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1942-01-01 | In this “Romance of Celluloid”, MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. Th… |
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| The Grand Bounce | Radio News Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | 1937-05-22 | A man writes a check for $1,000 to cover a gambling debt. The problem is that he doesn’t have enough money in his bank account to cover it. The check … |
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| Another Romance of Celluloid | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 | This second entry in MGM’s “Romance of Film” series documents how celluloid movie film is processed and features behind-the-scenes glimpses of current… |
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| The Romance of Celluloid | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1937-08-27 | Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater, are… |
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| The Mortal Storm | Trailer Announcer (voice) | 1940-06-20 | The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided a… |
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| Babes in Arms | Trailer Announcer (voice) (uncredited) | 1939-10-10 | Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wa… |
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| The Ice Follies of 1939 | Radio Announcer (Uncredited) | 1939-03-10 | Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,… |
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| Hollywood Goes to Town | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1938-07-07 | This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an “important” movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which h… |
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| A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 | This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a tal… |
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| Hollywood: Style Center of the World | Narrator | 1940-05-29 | This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother … |
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| Young Tom Edison | Narrator (voice) | 1940-03-15 | Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastr… |
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| Arsène Lupin Returns | Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited) | 1938-02-25 | A woman and a man vying for a woman’s affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy … |
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| Fingers at the Window | Trailer Announcer (Voice) (uncredited) | 1942-04-22 | In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic…. |
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| Presenting Lily Mars | Trailer Narrator (voice) | 1943-04-29 | Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant…. |
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| Man Of The People | Radio Announcer (voice) | 1937-01-27 | An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks…. |
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| Edison, the Man | Trailer Narrator (voice) | 1940-05-10 | In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor… |
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