Lowell Thomas
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Woodington, Ohio, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 06, 1892
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 29, 1981
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Highlights and Shadows
Overview: Watson crafted a dazzling visual ballet that stands on its own as an aesthetically rewarding and educationally inspiring tour of the massive Kodak factories. Utilizing the multiple exposure imagery he had used to such great effect in The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and Lot in Sodom (1933), Watson makes tool and die drill presses, assembly lines of camera parts, and the film coating process every bit as expressive and interesting as an MGM historic drama.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Patton
Overview: "Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-25
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Along the Rainbow Trail
Overview: This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip from Medicine Hat in southern Utah down the rapids of the San Juan River ending with a view of the Rainbow Bridge, hence the title and the use of Tehnicolor. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-15
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Round & Round & Round & Round
Overview: An educational one-reeler for elementary aged children demonstrating the concept of American free-enterprise. The film utilizes wooden toys designed and animated by Goldman, all set to a music box-ish xylophone score by Jam Handy musical director Samuel Benavie and narration by notable commentator Lowell Thomas.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Auto-Lite on Parade
Overview: Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-03
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It's a Bird
Overview: 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 professor, that there is a bird, a Belgish Kongo, that eats metal. Charlie sets out on a ridiculous hunting expedition to catch one. With some music - the birds love music - and a strange worm he is able to catch one, but even then the bird offers some even more over-the-top surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Killers of the Sea
Overview: Captain Wallace Casewell Jr., chief of police of Panama City, Florida, is the star of Killers of the Sea. Appointing himself protector of all Gulf of Mexico gamefish, Capt. Casewell makes it his mission to round up illegal fishing boats and to stave off such natural predators as sharks, whales and octopi. This may well be the only American film in which a school of dolphins are depicted as "the enemy." Beyond its rather ludicrous continuity, the film offers several spectacular underwater scenes, as Casewell battles invading sea life with knife and harpoon. This 49-minute documentary was narrated by Lowell Thomas.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-05-08
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This Is Cinerama
Overview: Designed to introduce the then-new widescreen process Cinerama, audiences experience the roller coaster at Rockaways' Playland, the temple dance from Aida, Niagara Falls, a Viennese choir, the canals of Venice, a military tattoo in Edinburgh, a bullfight, and more. The film concludes with a view from the nose of a low-flying B-25 while America the Beautiful plays.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-30
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Yesterday's Witness
Overview: 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 source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Cinerama Adventure
Overview: A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry into the widescreen era.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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America Marching On
Overview: Hosted by 'Lowell Thomas' this short illustrates the enterprising nature of the American business and its expansion through time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-23
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The Challenge of Ideas
Overview: Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western Allies of the United States and the Soviet bloc, pointing out the need for vigilance and action to protect democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Blonde Captive
Overview: An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-29
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Africa Speaks!
Overview: 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 famous Ubangi tribes.
Genres: Documentary Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-15
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Search for Paradise
Overview: Lowell Thomas travels across Europe and the Middle East on his way to attend the coronation of King Mahendra in Nepal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-24
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Amelia Earhart
Overview: Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in 1937.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-25
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Titans of the Deep
Overview: Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off of the shores of Bermuda to study and film sea creatures seen and filmed at that depth for the first time. A sometimes staged semi-documentary that was often sold and advertised as an exploitation/horror picture.
Genres: Action Adventure Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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The Legend of Lasseter
Overview: The Legend of Lasseter is a 1979 Australian documentary about Lasseter's Reef. Lasseter's Reef refers to the purported discovery, announced by Harold Bell Lasseter in 1929 and 1930, of a fabulously rich gold deposit in a remote and desolate corner of central Australia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-16
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Wings over the Andes
Overview: An airborne documentary following the Shippee-Johnson expedition into the Andes..
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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Narcotics: A Challenge to Youth
Overview: An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundation of America and directed by Gilbert Lasky with financial assistance of the Woman’s Relief Corps targets teachers as well as junior and senior high school students in the war on drugs. Narcotics are classified and effects of opiates, stimulants, and barbiturates are summarized and dramatized
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-23
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United We Stand
Overview: Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the narration, shows "how, through their disunity, democracies were led, some to destruction and others to the verge of destruction."]
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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The Chicken of Tomorrow
Overview: Advances in chicken and egg farming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Ike
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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I'll Tell the World
Overview: This 40-minute short, produced for MacFadden Publications, is basically a plug for the selling power of ads placed in the pages of "Liberty Magazine," a MacFadden publication.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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The Best of Cinerama
Overview: A selection of excerpts from the first Cinerama films.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-25
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Frontiers of the Future: A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas
Overview: “Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking into the future, Thomas predicts economic revitalization made possible through industrial research. The “frontiers” are emerging fields such as aviation and television broadcasting that will create new opportunities and products for Americans.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Highway Mania
Overview: Made in 1937, HIGHWAY MANIA is an early driver safety film narrated by Lowell Thomas. It features stunning images of auto accidents, including some that are doubtless stunts from Hollywood films.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-08
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Inklings
Overview: 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 narrator tells some stories about the historical figure in question. The drawings come to life as the narrator tells some anecdotes about the historical figure. As each drawing nears its completion and as the story about that figure nears its end, it becomes more and more apparent who the historical figure in question is.
Genres: Animation History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-08
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Seeing Green
Overview: Inside the electrochemical "brain" of the traffic light.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-12
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About Faces
Overview: State of the American people's teeth during the Great Depression.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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A Railroad at Work
Overview: A documentary on railroads doing their daily tasks created by trhe The Milwaukee Railroad
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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A Great Railroad at Work
Overview: A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Schlitz on Mount Washington
Overview: Schlitz is a tourist in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Ignoring posted warnings which say that you shouldn't climb Mount Washington (the tallest mountain in New England) in bad weather, Schlitz pushes onward up the mountain, briefcase in hand. He gets lost in the snow, becomes entangled in mischief spun by a quirky hermit, and finally ends up skiing down Tuckerman's Ravine at perilous speeds, losing his briefcase several times.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Lost Lake
Overview: Shot in gorgeous Cinecolor, an early subtractive two-color process, Lost Lake follows the famed Jesuit priest, geologist, and explorer Father Bernard Rosecrans Hubbard on his trip to discover a lost lake on top of an Alaskan glacier.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-11
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Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Overview: How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-29
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Mussolini Speaks
Overview: Mussolini Speaks is a 1933 documentary film highlighting the first 10 years of Benito Mussolini’s rule as Prime Minister of Italy. The film, narrated by U.S. radio broadcaster Lowell Thomas, includes footage of the Fascists’ March on Rome, the Lateran Treaty between Italy and The Holy See, engineering projects in Italy and North Africa, and excerpts of speeches by Mussolini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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Around the World of Mike Todd
Overview: "Around the World with Mike Todd" serves as a summarization of the Todd's career, and his role in producing 'Around the World in 80 Days'. Numerous behind-the-scenes footage from the film.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-08
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Polaroid Dealer Announcement
Overview: Introduces Polaroids marketing campaign for the year 1964, including TV commercials. Produced for dealers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Going Places with Lowell Thomas, #18
Overview: A documentary newsreel (in Universal's "Going Places" series) offering an in-depth glimpse into the Universal/Walter Lantz animation studio, featuring narration by legendary newsman Lowell Thomas.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-03
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The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War
Overview: "The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War" is a compilation documentary narrated by Lowell Thomas, illustrating changing attitudes toward the war and its participants, as well as toward the movies themselves. Winner, Gold Medal, 1975 Chicago Film Festival.
Genres: Documentary History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Red China
Overview: A look at what goes on in China.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Driven to Kill
Overview: Stresses the necessity for the average American driver to realize fully his responsibility when behind the wheel. Illustrates that violations of safe and sane driving rules produce fatal accidents.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-15
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A Modern Aladdin's Lamp
Overview: With Western Electric Vacuum Tubes in the starring roles, this film tells the fascinating story of tube development from the first crude bulbs of Edison and De Forest to the powerful and efficient tubes in use today, and shows the prominent part they play in radio, long-distance telephony, public address systems, sound motion pictures and the phonograph.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-20
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Men and Machines
Overview: This short film produced by the National Association of Manufacturers takes the point of view that mechanization of the workplace, in which workers are replaced by machines, is actually a good thing for both labor and business.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Color Harmony
Overview: The film discusses the fascinating world of color perception, particularly from the perspective of various creatures, including fish and lobsters. It explains how human eyes function like cameras, focusing light to create images, and describes the roles of rods and cones in vision.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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America Looks Ahead
Overview: Lowell Thomas narrates a look at progress in American history.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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