Chapter V: MEN AND V WOMEN. c1942. 1 reel, sd (5)

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Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; director, Vyvyan Donner; described
by Hugh James; photography, William Storz; film editor, Russ
Sheilds.

WOMEN IN BONDAGE. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Herman Millakowsky; director, Steve Sekely;
original story, Frank Bentick Wisbar; screenplay, Houston Branch;
photographer, Mack Stengler.

WOMEN IN HIDING. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
2 reels, sd., b&w. (A Crime Does Not Pay Subject)

Credits: Director, Joe Newman; original screenplay, Howard Dimsdale;
film editor, Adrienne Fazan.

WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 1 reel, sd.
(Cinescope, no. 19)

Credits: Narrator, Millicent Robin.

WOMEN IN SPORTS. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1943. 10 min., sd.,
color. (Sports Parade)

Credits: Director, Del Frazier; narrator, Knox Manning, Technicolor.

WOMEN IN THE NIGHT. Southern California Pictures, c1947. 90 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm. Based on a report issued by the United Nations
Information Office.

Summary: A melodrama which has for its theme the mistreatment of
white women by the German and Japanese forces in Shanghai shortly
before the collapse of the Japanese government.

Credits: Producer, Louis K. Ansell; director, William Rowland.

Cast: Tala Birell, William Henry, Virginia Christine.

WOMEN IN THE NIGHT. Southern California Pictures, S. A., c1947. 10
reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Producer, Louis K. Ansell; director, William Rowland.

Cast: Tala Birell, William Henry, Virginia Christine.

WOMEN IN WAR. c1940. 8 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, John H. Auer;
original screenplay, F. Hugh Herbert, Doris Anderson; music
director, Cy Feuer; photography, Jack Marta; film editor, Edward
Mann.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

WOMEN WITHOUT NAMES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 7 reels, sd.
Based on a play by Ernest Booth.

Credits: Director, Robert Florey; screenplay, William R. Lipman,
Horace McCoy; photography, Charles Lang; film editor, Anne Bauchens.

WONDER HOUSE. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1949. 16 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (This
Is America, no. 6)

Summary: A report on the American Museum of Natural History in New
York. Shows the different departments of the Museum and the people
who prepare the exhibits. Includes scenes of the Museum's
expeditions, showing how giant lizards are trapped in the East
Indies and how the first dinosaur eggs were discovered.

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director and photographer, Larry
O'Reilly; written by Dudley Hale; narrator, Dwight Weist; editor,
David Cooper.

WONDER MAN. Released through RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1945.
Presented by Samuel Goldwyn. 98 min., sd., color.

Credits: Producer, Samuel Goldwyn; director, Bruce Humberstone;
original story, Arthur Sheekman; screenplay, Don Hartman, Melville
Shavelson, Philip Rapp; adaptation, Jack Jevne, Eddie Moran; music
director, Louis Forbes; film editor, Daniel Mandell. Technicolor.

THE WONDER MINERAL. Jam Handy Organization, Inc., for Universal
Zonolite Insulation Co. 1–1/2 reels, b&w, 35mm.

Summary: The properties of Zonolite brand vermiculite are
demonstrated in a laboratory. Closing sequences show the advantages
of using this material as fill-type insulation, as a plaster and
concrete aggregate, and as a sound absorption material.

THE WONDERFUL STORY OF SANTA CLAUS. Fantasy Productions, c1948. 16
min., sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: A Christmas story about Santa Claus and his helpers.

Credits: Producer and director, James Blakeley; original story,
Patrick D. Dignan.

WONDERS OF THE SEA. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1941. 1 reel,
sd. (Adventures of the Newsreel Cameraman)

Credits: Producer, Truman Talley; continuity, David Cooper;
narration, Paul Douglas; music score, L. De Francesco; photography,
Bruce Cummings; editor, Jack Darrock.

WOO WOO. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1945. 1,440 ft., sd.

Credits: Director, Jules White; story and screenplay, Felix Adler.

WOO WOO. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1943. 1 reel,
sd.

WOOD GOES TO WAR. c1943. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 915 ft.,
sd., color. (A FitzPatrick Miniature)

Credits: Narrator, James A. FitzPatrick; photographer, William E.
Snyder. Technicolor.

WOOD-PECKIN'. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1943. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, Joe Stultz.

THE WOODLAND SYMPHONY. Walter Lantz Productions, Inc. for the
Coca-Cola Company, c1949. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm.

Summary: After giving a concert with improvised instruments for the
animals of the forest, the pixies dance around a bottle of
Coca-Cola. An animated cartoon.

WOODMAN SPARE THAT TREE. c1942. Presented by Columbia Pictures Corp.
677 ft., sd., color. (Color Rhapsody, no. 85)

Credits: Director, Bob Wickersham; story, Jack Cosgriff; animation,
Phil Duncan; music, Eddie Kilfeather. Technicolor.

THE WOODWORKER. Burton Holmes Films, Inc., c1940. Presented by
Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. 1 reel. (Your Life Work Series)

WOODY GROWS UP. Walter W. Bennett, c1945. 11 min., sd., color, 16mm.

Credits: Producer, director and narrator, Walter W. Bennett.

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1948.
15 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A musical short.

Credits: Producer and director, Will Cowan; film editor, Eugene De
Rue.

Cast: Woody Herman and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Don and
Beverly, The Woodchoppers.

WOODY HERMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA. The Vitaphone Corp., c1938. 10 min.,
sd.

Credits: Director, Roy Mack.

WOODY, THE GIANT KILLER. Walter Lantz Productions, c1948. 7 min., sd.,
color, 35mm. (Walter Lantz Cartune) A Universal Picture.

Credits: Director, Dick Lundy; story, Ben Hardaway, Webb Smith;
animation, Verne Harding, Ed Love; music, Darrell Calker.

WOODY WOODPECKER. Universal Pictures Co., Inc. and Walter Lantz
Productions, c1941. 1 reel. (A Walter Lantz Cartoon)

Credits: Story, Ben Hardaway, Jack Cosgriff; artists, Alex Lovy, Ray
Fahringer.

WOODY WOODPECKER IN WOODY DINES OUT. c1945. Presented by Universal. 1
reel, sd., color. (A Walt Lantz Cartune)

Credits: Producer, Walt Lantz; director, James Culhane; story, Ben
Hardaway, Milt Schaffer; animation, Don William; music, Darrell
Calker. Technicolor.

WOODY WOODPECKER THE SCREWDRIVER. Presented by Universal, c1941. 1
reel, sd., color. (A Walter Lantz Cartune) A Walter Lantz
Production.

Credits: Director, Walter Lantz; story, Ben Hardaway, J. Cosgrove;
music, Darrell Calker; artists, Alex Lovy, R. Somerville.
Technicolor.

WOOL, FROM SHEEP TO CLOTHING. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., in
collaboration with Robert Homer Burns and Alexander Johnston, c1947.
11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

A WORD TO THE WISE. The Chicago Film Laboratory. Presented by The
National Retailers Mutual Insurance Co., sd.

WORDS AND MUSIC. Loew's Inc., c1948. 119 mins., sd., color, 35mm. An
MGM picture.

Summary: A musical extravaganza in which a story of the lives of
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart is used as a framework to display
twenty-two of their best known songs.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Freed; director, Norman Taurog; film
editors, Albert Akst, Ferris Webster; story, Guy Bolton, Jean
Holloway; screenplay, Fred Finklehoffe; adaptation, Ben Feiner, Jr.;
music director, Lennie Hayton; orchestration, Conrad Salinger; film
editors, Albert Akst, Ferris Webster.

Cast: June Allyson, Perry Como, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Gene
Kelly.

WORK MEASUREMENT FILM. c1948. 16 min., si., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Performance rating; introduction. A film designed for use
in connection with a work measurement manual by Ralph Mosser Barnes.

WORK MEASUREMENT FILM. Ralph M. Barnes, c1949. 16 min., sd., b&w,
35mm.

Summary: Explains the need for performance rating, and illustrates
the range of working speeds among factory employees. Includes
studies showing performance of miscellaneous factory operations at
various rates of speed.

THE WORK OF THE ATMOSPHERE. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.,
c1946. 1 reel, sd., 16mm. In Greek.

THE WORK OF THE KIDNEYS. Britannica Films, Inc., in collaboration with
Anton J. Carlson, H. G. Swann, and F. J. Mullin, c1946. 1 reel, sd.,
b&w, 16mm. Afrikaans version. Title on script: "Die Werk van die
Niere."

THE WORK OF THE KIDNEYS. Erpi Classroom Films, Inc., c1940, 1 reel,
sd.

THE WORKING OF MAGNESIUM. Presented by The Dow Chemical Co. sd., b&w.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Organization, Inc.

THE WORKING OF MAGNESIUM. SEE This Is Magnesium.

WORKING ON AIR. Presented by General Motors, Aeroproducts Division.
(Little Journeys in General Motors)

Appl. author: Jam Handy Organization, Inc.

WORKING ON THE RAILROAD. Video Varieties Corp. 3 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: "Working on the Railroad" is sung by the Striders, a Negro
male quartet.

WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. Hoffberg Productions, Inc., c1949. 20 min.,
sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A memoir of Charles Dickens, presenting sequences from his
novels filmed in their actual settings.

Credits: Producer, Edwin J. Fancey; director, John G. Taylor;
commentary, Frederick Allen; photographer, Billie Williams; editor,
Jack Wilman.

WORLD FRIENDSHIP. International Film Foundation, Inc., c1949.
Presented by the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. 20 min., sd., color,
16mm.

Summary: Shows how world friendship and understanding grows out of
the camp experiences of the girls from Brazil, Canada, and the
United States who are attending the camp for Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts which is held in conjunction with the Conference of the World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in Cooperstown, New York,
in 1948.

Credits: Director, Francis Thompson; narration, Basil Beyea;
narrator, Tony Kraber; music, Gene Forrell.

WORLD IN FLAMES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Albert J. Richard; written by William C. Park.

WORLD JAMBOREE—1947. Boy Scouts of America, c1948. 32 min., sd.,
color, 16mm.

Summary: A young American Scout describes the World Jamboree held in
France in the summer of 1947.

THE WORLD OF 1960. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1939. 833 ft., sd.
(Columbia Cinescope)

Credits: Producer, B. K. Blake; narrator, Edgar Barrier;
photographers, Don Malkames, James Lillis.

THE WORLD OF SILENCE; OUR PROBLEM FOR TODAY. Evangelical Lutheran
Institute for the Deaf. 4 reels, sd., color, 35mm.

THE WORLD OF SOUND. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 929 ft., sd.
(Cinescope, no. 18)

Credits: Producer, B. K. Blake; story, William M. Nelson; narration,
Milton Cross; music director, Jack Schaindlin; photographer, Charles
Harten; editor, Leonard Weiss.

WORLD PREMIERE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1941. 8 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, Ted Tetzlaff; story,
Earl Felton, Gordon Kahn; screenplay, Earl Felton; photographer, Dan
Flapp; film editor, Archie Marshek.

WORLD WITHOUT BORDERS. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1944. 2 reels,
sd. (A Universal Special Featurette)

Credits: Producers, Joseph O'Brien, Thomas Mead; narrators, Ed
Herlihy, Ben Grauer.

WORLD'S HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP, JUNE 1948. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1948.
19 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: In the Yankee Stadium, 42,000 people see Joe Louis knock
out Joe Walcott to retain the heavyweight championship.

WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, DECEMBER,
1947. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1947. 18 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Joe Louis successfully defends his heavyweight championship
title for the 25th time, with Jersey Joe Walcott as the contender.

THE WORLD'S LARGEST TELESCOPE REFLECTOR. Glenn Edgerton, c1941. 1
reel, sd.

Credits: Written by Cecily Edgerton; narrator, Robert McNamara.

WORLD'S MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: ROCKY GRAZIANO VS. TONY ZALE. Coram
Pictures Corp., c1948. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Challenger Tony Zale, winning over champion Rocky Graziano,
recovers the middleweight crown after scoring a third-round
knockout.

Credits: Supervisor of production, J. A. Wray Kerr; film editor,
Elmer J. McGovern.

WORLD'S MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: TONY ZALE VS. MARCEL CERDAN.
Ringside Pictures Corp., c1948. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Challenger Marcel Cerdan wins the title when Champion Tony
Zale is unable to come out for the twelfth round.

WORLD'S SIMPLEST DRIVING. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by
the Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corp. 1 min., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A woman, accompanied by her small daughter, drives easily
through traffic in a new Oldsmobile which is equipped with
Hydra-matic Drive.

WORLD'S SIMPLEST WAY TO DRIVE. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented
by Oldsmobile Division, General Motors Corp. 1 min., b&w, 35mm.

WORLD'S YOUNGEST AVIATOR. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1944. 1 reel,
sd. (Person-Oddity, no. 127)

Credits: Producers, Joseph O'Brien, Thomas Mead; narrator, Albert A.
Grobe.

THE WORM TURNS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1944. 1
reel, sd.

WORTELS VAN PLANTE. SEE Roots of Plants.

WOT'S ALL TH' SHOOTIN' FER. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Corp., c1940. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd., b&w. (Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Volney White; story, John Foster; music, Philip
A. Scheib.

WOTTA KNIGHT. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 7 min., sd., color,
35mm. (Popeye the Sailor Cartoon)

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, Carl Meyer, I. Klein.

WOULD YOU FOR A BIG RED APPLE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,
Inc., c1944. 1 reel, sd.

WOULD'ST COULD I BUT KISS THY HAND, OH BABE. Soundies Distributing
Corp. of America, Inc., c1942. 1 reel, sd.

WRANGLER'S ROOST. Range Busters, Inc., c1941. 6 reels, sd. (The Range
Busters, no. 7).

Credits: Producer, George W. Weeks; director, S. Roy Luby; original
story, Earle Snell; screen adaptation, John Vlahos, Robert Finkel;
music direction, Frank Sanucci; photography, Robert Cline; film
editor, Roy Claire.

THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1948. 7 reels,
sd., b&w, 35mm. Suggested by a story by Edward Huebsch. Title from
the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Summary: A young sea captain brings to an end the nefarious
undertakings of a man who causes shipwrecks in order to profit from
the salvage; Gloucester in 1830 provides the setting.

Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director, John Hoffman;
script, Aubrey Wisberg; music director, Mischa Bakaleinikoff; film
editor, James Sweeney.

Cast: Willard Parker, Edgar Buchanan, Patricia White.

THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS. Terrytoons Inc., c1944. 1 reel, sd., color.
(A Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Mannie Davis; story, John Foster. Technicolor.

WRECK OF THE OLD '97. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,
c1945. 1 reel, sd.

WRECKING CREW. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1942. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,
Frank McDonald; original story, Robert T. Shannon, Mauri Grashin;
screenplay, Maxwell Shane, Richard Murphy; photographer, Fred
Jackman, Jr.; film editor, William Ziegler.

WRESTLING. 700 ft.

THE WRESTLING OCTOPUS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942. 872 ft., sd.
(World of Sports, no. 78)

Credits: Commentator, Bill Stern; photography, Charles Harten, J.
Burgi Contner, Jay Rescher; editor, Harry Foster.

WRITE THAT LETTER TONIGHT. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America,
Inc., c1945. 1 reel, sd.

WRITING BETTER BUSINESS LETTERS. Coronet, c1949. 11 min., sd., b&w,
16mm.

Summary: Shows the importance of business letters, emphasizing the
importance of clarity, brevity, and courtesy. For junior and senior
high grades.

Credits: Educational collaborator: J. Paul Leonard.

WYATT EARP, FRONTIER MARSHAL. SEE My Darling Clementine.

WYLIE, PHILIP. Cinderella Jones. 1946.

WYOMING. Loew's Inc., c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 9
reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Milten Bren; director, Richard Thorpe; original
story, Jack Jevne; screenplay, Jack Jevne, Hugo Butler; music score,
David Snell; film editor, Robert J. Kern.

THE WYOMING BANDIT. Republic Productions, Inc., c1949. 60 min., sd.,
b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A Western in which "Rocky" Lane routs murdering bandits and
restores law and order.

Credits: Associate producer, Gordon Kay; director, Philip Ford;
written by M. Coates Webster; music, Stanley Wilson; film editor,
Harold Minter.

Cast: Allan "Rocky" Land, Nugget Clark, Trevor Bardette, Victor
Kilian, Rand Brooks.

WYOMING HURRICANE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1944. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Leon Barsha; director, William Berke; story and
screenplay, Fred Myton; film editor, Charles Nelson.

WYOMING WILDCAT. c1941. Presented by Republic Pictures. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer-director, George Sherman; original
story, Bennett Cohen; screenplay, Bennett Cohen, Anthony Coldeway;
music director, Cy Feuer; photography, William Nobles; film editor,
Lester Orlebeck.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

WYOMING. Republic Productions, Inc., c1947. 84 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer and director, Joseph Kane; screenplay,
Lawrence Hazard, Gerald Geraghty; music, Nathan G. Scott, Ernest
Gold; music director, Cy Feuer; film editor, Arthur Roberts.

Cast: William Elliott, Vera Ralston, John Carroll, George "Gabby"
Hayes, Albert Dekker.

X MARKS THE SPOT. c1942. Presented by Republic Pictures. 6 reels, sd.
Based on a story by Mauri Grashin and Robert T. Shannon.

Credits: Associate producer and director, George Sherman;
screenplay, Stuart Palmer, Richard Murphy; music director, Morton
Scott; photographer, Jack Marta; film editor, Arthur Roberts.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

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