Movies: John Nesbitt
- 1938
Kentucky (1938)
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Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's fa...
- 1942
Mr. Blabbermouth! (1942)
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Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing th...
- 1948
The Fabulous Fraud (1948)
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In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism....
- 1938
That Mothers Might Live (1938)
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That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby signif...
- 1944
A Lady Fights Back (1944)
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The saga of the Normandie is recounted from her life as a luxury liner, the horrific fire that nearly destroyed her, and her resuscitation to join in the war effort. A John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short....
- 1941
Willie and the Mouse (1941)
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John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" purports to show how the behavior of mice can be studied in relation to the interaction of school children....
- 1941
Main Street on the March! (1941)
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This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends immediately after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It chronicles how the people of "Main Street Am...
- 1944
Main Street Today (1944)
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This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from....
- 1939
The Story of Dr. Jenner (1939)
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This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination....
- 1939
Forgotten Victory (1939)
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This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to find wheat that farmers can grow despite various disasters....
- 1942
The Woman in the House (1942)
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This short looks at the illness anthropophobia, the fear of people. In 1901, young Catherine Starr, who lives in a small English coastal town, has an argument with her fiancé. He leaves her house, goes off to serve in the Boer War, and dies of malari...
- 1944
Return from Nowhere (1944)
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In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man recovers his lost memories when he is forced to relive events in his dreams....
- 1942
The Magic Alphabet (1942)
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This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for beri-beri on the island of Java in the 1890s, led to the discovery of vitamins....
- 1938
The Forgotten Step (1938)
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An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme...
- 1938
The Ship That Died (1938)
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This MGM An Historical Mystery short traces the final voyage of the Mary Celeste, a ship discovered at sea, in December 1872, devoid - for no discernible reason - of crew, passengers and captain. At "the famed nautical court of Gibraltar", investiga...
- 1941
Whispers (1941)
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In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation....
- 1945
People on Paper (1945)
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Americans are preoccupied with the news, but need an escape from many of the events reported in the news. These escapes in the past have included dime store novels. The most accessible of these escapes is what are known as the funny papers, the set o...
- 1943
Storm (1943)
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A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to lessen their impact, storms have to run their course, and there is really not much we can do about them....
- 1942
The Incredible Stranger (1942)
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In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep a promise....
- 1940
A Way in the Wilderness (1940)
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This Passing Parade entry tells the story of Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929), a Hungarian immigrant who devoted his life to finding the cause of pellagra, a disease that killed hundreds of thousands in the southern United States. Although the medic...