Nathaniel Shilkret Movies

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

Peter and Delilah are a married couple running a roadside café in Nevada. Their stable partnership turns rocky, though, with the arrival of...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

Young couple Joe and Mary Thompson love each other and their children despite the struggles that they have that are typical of most young couples...

This short film takes a look at the tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

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...

This travelogue begins at Bangkok's rail depot, a center of Indo-Chinese commerce. Next the narrator talks about Buddhism as the camera shows us some...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the evolution of the American city, from the initially small farming village, to the...

In this Traveltalk series short we learn that four million ethnic French, German and Italian people live in Switzerland. The Alps and their important...

This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

An elderly Franz Liszt (1811-1886), living in a monastery, recalls his lost, unrequited love on his birthday.

Nick and Vince, a song writing team, are fired from their jobs at a publishing house when a foreign producer arrives looking for "hot" numbers. Vince...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

Chorus girl Patsy Shaw crashes a high-society party, meets playboy Charlie Breen, they fall in love, and are on their merry way to wedded bliss....

Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast 4,000-square-mile parish in rural New...

This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an orchestra in military dress plays different...

A short documentary about Thailand, formerly known as Siam.

At the 1991 Winkie and Munchkin Conventions, part of the programs was the 1948 Capitol Records audio-only adaptation of “Dorothy and the Wizard...