Harry Wismer

Movies13

• Movie6.1

  Drama

  The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

  The Babe Ruth Story

  1948 · 8 votes

• Movie

  Documentary

  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.

  Touchdown Town

  1951

• Movie6.0

  Documentary

  This documentary short shows two unnamed mountain climbers scaling Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps.

  Ice Climbers

  1956 · 1 votes

• Movie6.7

  Documentary

  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 the water and, therefore, can be taught to use their natural abilities to swim.

  Aqua Babes

  1956 · 3 votes

• Movie8.0

  Music

  Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

  On Stage Everybody

  1945 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  Documentary

  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.

  High Dive Kids

  1956 · 2 votes

• Movie6.5

  Documentary

  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 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.

  Four Minute Fever

  1956 · 2 votes

• Movie5.0

  Documentary

  In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose.

  Big Blue Goose

  1956 · 4 votes

• Movie6.3

  Documentary

  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 boundary between New Brunswick and the state of Maine.

  Canoeman's Holiday

  1956 · 3 votes

• Movie7.5

  Documentary

  This Sportscope series entry highlights sailboat races in Holland.

  Holland Sailing

  1956 · 2 votes

• Movie6.0

  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 Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament; and the NCAA All-Star game.

  Basketball Headliners

  1956 · 2 votes

• Movie9.0

  Documentary

  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 Museum of Science. The short is part of the RKO's 'This is America' documentary series.

  Operation White Tower

  1948 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  Documentary

  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.

  Basque Sports

  1957 · 2 votes