Movies: Harry Wismer
- 1948
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
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The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero....
- 1945
On Stage Everybody (1945)
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Radio's miracle show is on the screen....
- 1956
Big Blue Goose (1956)
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In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose....
- 1956
Aqua Babes (1956)
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This short subject shows Lissa Bengston teaching a group of three- and four-year-olds how to swim in a pool. Miss Bengston, a member of the Royal Academy of Physical Education, Stockholm, Sweden, believes that at this age, children have no fear of th...
- 1956
Canoeman's Holiday (1956)
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The owners of the Loon Bay Lodge in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada usually plan fishing and rafting trips for their guests. In this short they take such a trip themselves down the St. Croix River, which forms the southern end of the international...
- 1956
Four Minute Fever (1956)
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Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 second...
- 1956
Basketball Headliners (1956)
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This short shows highlights from several basketball games at two postseason tournaments in 1956. They include the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final games of the National Invitation Tournament; the semifinal and final games of the National Collegiate...
- 1956
Holland Sailing (1956)
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This Sportscope series entry highlights sailboat races in Holland....
- 1951
Touchdown Town (1951)
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Massillon, Ohio, known as "Touchdown Town USA," where football is not only a sport is also a civic enterprise and a cult. It high-school football stadium seats 20,000 fans, and every new-born baby boy is presented a football on leaving the hospital....
- 1956
High Dive Kids (1956)
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In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of the Royal Academy of Physical Education in Stockholm, Sweden, supervises the children's activities....
- 1948
Operation White Tower (1948)
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Brad and Barbara Washburn were filmed by National Geographic and RKO Pictures on their ascent of Mount McKinley in Alaska. The film is a pictorial record of the first scientific conquest of Mount McKinley, filmed with the cooperation of the Boston Mu...
- 1956
Ice Climbers (1956)
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This documentary short shows two unnamed mountain climbers scaling Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps....
- 1957
Basque Sports (1957)
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An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured....