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  • Film, Video
    All-American drawback. Catalog Record Only Helen's boyfriend, Homer Bagwell, surprisingly proves to be a champ football player and is drafted by his team, the Petaluma Aggies, to help win their game against Oxnard. However, a woman and a midget are hired to pretend to be his wife and child to get Homer expelled from the team. Fortunately, Helen learns the truth in time for Homer to be placed back...
    • Contributor: Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1930
  • Film, Video
    The blue and the gray Catalog Record Only This overview of the Civil War travels to some of the war's landmarks and the battlefields where the major turning-points of the war occured. Visits are made to Richmond and the Confederate Capitol, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, where a re-enactment of the Gettysburg address is presented, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Appomattox Courthouse. At these locations, the fallen and those who served are commemorated with monuments. In...
    • Contributor: Mendoza, David - Vitaphone Corp - Kennedy, John B. - Frank, Bert - United Artists Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1935
  • Film, Video
    The Man in the iron mask Catalog Record Only LP8985 PA418-603 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Edward Small Productions, Inc.; 19Jul39; LP8985. Minor change version: [Colorized version]. -- Color Systems Technology, Inc., 1989. Copyright for minor change version: Color Systems Technology, Inc. DCR 1989; PUB 17Apr89; REG [date unknown]; PA418-603. Music, Lucien Moraweck ; musical director, Lud Gluskin ; camera, Robert Planck ; editor, Grant Whytock ; assistant director, Edgar Anderson ; special effects,...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1939
  • Film, Video
    Circonstances atténuantes = Extenuating circumstances
    Extenuating circumstances | Circumstantial evidence Catalog Record Only
    Stranded because of car trouble, Gaëtan Le Sentencier, a well-known judge, and his wife take refuge in a seedy auberge on the outskirts of Paris. Face-to-face with the locals, they hide their true identities and quickly become accepted as members of the gang. Surrounded by the people he has spent his life condemning, Gaëtan realizes that he knows nothing about them. He sets about...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1939
  • Film, Video
    Death drives through Catalog Record Only PA860-641 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: UGC UK. PUB 1935; REG 30Apr97; PA860-641; reg. under GATT/URAA restoration. Sources used: copyright data sheet; copyright data base. Received: 11/19/1997; viewing copy; copyright deposit--RNR; Copyright Collection.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1935
  • Film, Video
    Freshman's finish Catalog Record Only LP2647 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Christie Film Co., Inc.; 20Sep31; LP2647. Carlyle Moor. LC copy is a television reissue; reissue date unknown. Vanity comedies. Sources used: Catalogue of copyright entries, motion pictures, 1912-1939, p. 282-283; Maltin, The great movie shorts, p. 11-12; Zouary collection inventory, 9/16/91. arch pos; Received: 8/31/76; gift; Zouary (Maurice) Collection. Viewed for credits only.
    • Contributor: Educational Pictures (Firm) - Christie Film Company - Watson, William - Christie, AL - Conklin, Frank Roland - Moore, Carlyle - Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1931
  • Film, Video
    THE SINGING KID motion picture | Feature film (over 60 minutes). "Keep that hi-de-ho in your soul" by Irving Mills, Cab Calloway (CC); "I love to sing-a" (AJ), "The singingest, swingingest man in town", "Save me, sister" (AJ, CC, WS); "You're the cure for what ails me" (AJ) by E. Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen. (Songs). Al Jolson, Winifred Shaw, The Yacht Club Boys, Cab Calloway and his...
    • Contributor: Ray Heindorf - Leo F. Forbstein - William Keighley
    • Date: 1936-01-01
  • Film, Video
    I AIN'T GOT NOBODY motion picture | Short film (under 30 minutes). "Tiger rag" by Harry De Costa, Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo, Larry Shields, "I ain't got nobody" by Roger Graham, Dave Peyton, Spencer Williams, performed by The Mills Brothers. (Songs). The Mills Brothers, vocal. (Personnel On Camera). Motion Picture (Form).
    • Contributor: Dave Fleischer
    • Date: 1932-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Battement de coeur
    Palpitations Catalog Record Only
    PA861-368 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Greenwich Film Production. PUB 1939; REG 3Mar97; PA861-368; reg. under GATT/URAA restoration. In French. Sources used: copyright data base; copyright data sheet. Received: 11/19/1997; viewing copy; copyright deposit--RNR; Copyright Collection.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1939
  • Film, Video
    Désiré. Catalog Record Only PA919-352 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Teledis. Appl. au.: Sacha Guitry. PUB 1937; REG 31Oct97; PA919-352. Reg. under GATT/URAA restoration. In French. Sources used: copyright data sheet; copyright data base. Received: 2-24-1999; viewing copy; copyright deposit--no agreement; Copyright Collection.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1937
  • Film, Video
    Old Mother Riley M.P. Catalog Record Only PA868-728 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: British Broadcasting Corporation. Appl. au.: Butcher's Film Service. PUB 1939; REG 16Jan97; PA868-728; reg. under GATT/URAA restoration. Sources used: copyright data base; copyright data sheet. Received: 2/2/1998; viewing copy; copyright deposit--no agreement; Copyright Collection. Not viewed.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1939
  • Film, Video
    BARGAIN WITH BULLETS
    GANGSTERS ON THE LOOSE
    motion picture | Feature film (over 60 minutes). Les Hite and his Cotton Club Orchestra, The Eddie Barefield Trio:- Eddie Barefield, clarinet; Eddie Beal, piano; Al Morgan, acoustic double bass; Covan Studio Dancers. (Personnel On Camera). Motion Picture (Form).
    • Contributor: Harry Fraser
    • Date: 1937-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Ride for the west = The cactus kid Catalog Record Only Copyright: reg. unknown. LC copies are from a retitled television reissue; reissue date unknown. Jack Perrin, Fred Hume, Philo McCullough, Charles Whitaker. Source used: American Film Institute catalog, feature films, 1931-1940, F3.0549. Received: 8/31/76; ref print and arch pos; gift; Zouary (Maurice) Collection.
    • Contributor: Nolte, William L. (William Lewis) - Perrin, Jack - Humes, Fred - McCullough, Philo - Webb, Harry S. - Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1934
  • Film, Video
    The bridge Catalog Record Only A man stands on a bridge waiting to be hanged by soldiers, but he escapes by jumping into the water.
    • Contributor: Darvas, Charles - Afi/Triangle Laboratories Estate Collection (Library of Congress) - Bela, Nicholas - Vidor, Charles
    • Date: 1931
  • Film, Video
    Popular science J6-6. Catalog Record Only Listed as reel 7 on Tayler inventory. Factual; scientific, technological. Rcvd: 5/12/71. AFI gift to LC; AFI acquired from Tayler. Incomplete. Oil marks, slight buckle.
    • Contributor: American Film Institute Collection - Tayler (Dorothy M.) Collection - Paramount
    • Date: 1937
  • Film, Video
    Jungjäger. Catalog Record Only No. 162034. Received: 6/1/90; ref print; exchange; Bundesarchiv Collection.
    • Contributor: Bundesarchiv Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1933
  • Film, Video
    (JAZZ IN THE NETHERLANDS) motion picture | 1. "I wish I were twins" by Frank Loesser, Eddie DeLange, Joseph Meyer. (Songs). 1. Coleman Hawkins, tenor sax; Leo de la Fuente, piano. (Personnel On Camera). Motion Picture (Form).
    • Date: 1935-01-01
  • Film, Video
    School's out Catalog Record Only Copyright: reg. unknown. Jackie Cooper, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Mary Ann Jackson, Buddy MacDonald, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Douglas Greer, Dorothy "Echo" De Borba, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Bobby "Bonedust" Young, Donald Haines, Bobby Mallon, Mildred Kornman, Barbara Roach, Billy Seay, June Marlowe, Creighton Hale, Lyle Tayo, Pete the Pup. NCN016568; School's out. Source used: Bann, R. and Maltin, L. The Little Rascals--the life...
    • Contributor: Cooper, Jackie - Afi/Roach (Hal) Collection (Library of Congress) - Walker, H. M. - Afi/Triangle Laboratories Estate Collection (Library of Congress) - McGowan, Robert - Marlowe, June
    • Date: 1930
  • Film, Video
    Touche a tout
    Dabbler Catalog Record Only
    PA927-986 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Lumiere. Appl. au.: Jean Dreville. PUB 1935; REG 6Jun97; PA927-986. Reg. under GATT/URAA restoration. In French. Sources used: copyright data base; copyright data sheet. Received: 4-16-1999; viewing copy; copyright deposit--RNR; Copyright Collection.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1935
  • Film, Video
    L' homme du jour
    Today's hero Catalog Record Only
    PA920-181 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Teledis. Appl. au.: Julien Duvivier & Star Films. PUB 1936; REG 28Oct97; PA920-181; reg. under Gatt/URAA restoration. In French. Sources used: copyright data base; copyright data sheet. Received: 2-24-1999; viewing copy; copyright deposit--no agreement; Copyright Collection.
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1936
  • personal narrative
    Harry W. Robinson Collection Army Air Forces/Corps, World War, 1939-1945 - Langley Field, Virginia; Washington, DC; Presque Isle, Maine; Boca Raton, Florida; Miami, Florida; Barksdale Field, Louisiana; New Guinea. Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force, Cold War. Opa-Locka, Florida; North Carolina.
    • Contributor: Unknown Interviewer - U.S. House of Representatives/Frank Lobiondo - Robinson, Harry W. - Lobiondo, Frank
    • Date: 1938
  • personal narrative
    William W. Wright Collection Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - San Pedro, California; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Tulaghi Island (Solomon Islands). Korean War, 1950-1953.
    • Contributor: Community Christian School, Melbourne, Florida - Bryans, Christopher - Bryans, Christopher L. - Wright, William W.
    • Date: 1936
  • Film, Video
    Way out West Catalog Record Only LP7051 PA460-491 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Corp.; 9Apr37; LP7051. Minor change version: [Colorized version]. -- United States : Hal Roach Studios, Inc., [1988?]. Copyright for minor change version: Hal Roach Studios, Inc. PA460-491. Story, Jack Jevne, Charles Rogers ; camera, Art Lloyd, Walter Lundin ; musical director, Marvin Hatley. Stan Laurel (Stanley), Oliver Hardy (Ollie), Sharon Lynne (Lola Marcel), James Finlayson...
    • Contributor: Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1937
  • Film, Video
    [Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, 1935 inauguration]
    General Martínez lee su manifiesto Catalog Record Only
    Inauguration ceremony for General Maximiliano Hernández Martínez in the new national stadium, Estadio Nacional Flor Blanca, which Martínez had recently built for the 3rd Central American and Caribbean Games. Includes a military parade, a scene of the president's cabinet members confirming his presidency, and scenes of Martínez posing with his cabinet members, the diplomatic corps, and Newton D. Baker, former U.S. Minister of War.
    • Contributor: Lorotone (Firm) - Massi, Alfredo - Mejía, F. Alfredo (Francisco Alfredo)
    • Date: 1935
  • personal narrative
    Richard Gould Watson, Jr. Collection Lieutenant Junior Grade, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Ford Island, Hawaii; Midway; Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands); New Britain Island (Bismarck Archipelago); New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago); Green Island (New Guinea); Atsugi, Japan; Kimpo, Korea. Lieutenant Junior Grade, Navy, Korean War, 1950-1953 - Kimpo, Korea.