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- WVPU is one of the longest operating private universities in Austria.
- A mathematical genius, John Nash made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a harrowing journey of self-discovery.
- Arthur and Dorothy are trying to get over a lovers' quarrel but are having a hard time saying the first word of reconciliation. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, watching the affair from their window, decide to help patch it up. They invite the girl and boy separately to come to the house and take care of the babies while they go to the theatre. Dorothy is in the nursery reading fairy tales to the children while Arthur is downstairs reading a thriller, neither being aware of the other's presence. Arthur hears a noise upstairs and phones the police station. The captain sends a detective to catch the "thief." Dorothy hears a noise downstairs and does the same. Her detective enters through the upper window while Arthur's comes in the door. As he sneaks up the stairs, Dorothy thrusts a gun against his ribs and forces him into a closet. Arthur sees her detective and, believing he has caught the thief, forces him into the same closet and locks the door. Both detectives believe they have the burglar cornered and a desperate battle takes place in the dark closet. Arthur and Dorothy then see each other for the first time. The detectives are released from the closet, battered and torn, and the lovers forget their spat.
- This short features a trained bull.
- Al is the assistant shipping clerk. He plants himself on top of a mass of crates and fishes valises up with a line attached to a rod and reel. He accidentally catches his boss and the latter runs him ragged before he escapes. Al discovers a crate marked for a Mrs. Wilson - a police dog from Germany. He opens the crate. The hound runs free. Al pursues. He lassoes the dog, but is pulled all around the town. Mrs. Wilson drives up. Al gets back and accidentally takes her Dachshund, but instead of getting it into the crate, he slips into it himself, and the slide-door drops. The boss is thoroughly vamped and takes the crate to Mrs. Wilson's home. Hearing a noise, she orders her admirer of that particular moment to hide. The boss enters with the crate. He, too, makes love. Hearing a noise from the crate, Mrs. Wilson again shouts that her husband is coming. The boss, too, hides. Then her husband arrives. He hears a noise from the crate. Opening it, he discovers Al. Pulling a pistol, he orders him to come out. Al refuses. Hubby fires. Then about a dozen admirers from every conceivable point in the room, make a dash for the door. Hubby throws some of them out through the window. Al goes out, crate and all.
- Andy, in his nightie, locked out of his house accidentally while getting the Sunday papers, is seen by the minister and several ladies of the church, to their mutual embarrassment. Escaping indoors through a window, Andy attempts to fix the water main, but mixes the gas and water pipes, flooding the stove, soaking the food and almost asphyxiating himself. All the Gumps put baking powder in Min's dough with the result that the biscuits float in midair and explode. Later, Andy shows Chester how to throw a boomerang, sent by Uncle Bim, but succeeds in breaking two windows and a lot of furniture. Almost killed by his wife while getting mixed up in a carpet she is beating, Andy tries to repair the roof. Clogging the chimney with his toolbox, he sees smoke pouring from a window and sends in an alarm. His house drenched by the firemen, Andy takes Min and Chester on a picnic in 348. He wrecks his garage, later drenches his picnic lunch with a system of grass sprinklers, steps on another picnic party's lunch while showing Chester how to fly a kite, falls in pond, off cliff, smashes car, and gets home to find the hot water boiler has exploded, blowing his house to bits.
- Jimmie, the Messenger Boy, is in love. He tells the other messengers that he is going to see his girl. But he lacks the price of a box of candy, so contrives to steal it. He surprises the girl with the candy and she surprises him with a big dog. The dog, playful, chases Jimmie several blocks and finally trees him, tearing his pants. The girl calls the dog off but accuses Jimmie of mistreating her pet. Quite conscious of the conditions of his pants, Jimmie tries to hide the rip. Several girls giggle. Back at the messenger office a woman phones the manager for "the most reliable messenger." The boss sends Jimmie, torn pants and all. The woman has a dog for Jimmie to deliver on another street. They start out; the dog leads Jimmie a merry chase, almost gets in a fight with his girl's dog, and finally walks into a dog show where she is awarded the blue ribbon. Complications follow but Jimmie finally manages to sooth things over; he gives the blue ribbon to "the best in the burg" - his girl, and all ends well.
- Of course brothers and sisters are likely to be jealous of each other, but Buddy seemed to be inordinately jealous of his brother John, and Susie of sister Jane. John and Jane being older than Buddy and Susie and having something per week to live on, decided to get married. Buddy and Susie got jealous. They didn't stop with hurling shoes and rice, either. When John and Jane got settled, they took it into their heads to start a couple of fictitious romances by the anonymous letter method, which convinced John that Jane had a "line-forms-on-this-side" string of other Johns, and convinced Jane that poor, fat John had spent his entire young life and patrimony in playing Don Juan to all the pretty girls of the county. This climaxed into a shooting affray and a battle royal in which John gave black eyes to four friends of Susie, who were assisting in the plot by dressing up in men's clothes and the only excuse that Buddy could offer after apologies had been made was they seemed altogether too happy.
- Arthur and Eddie make a bluff at buying a car and get the auto salesman to take their girls for a ride, pretending to the girls that he is a hired chauffeur. He resents being treated as a hired hand and takes them for a bumpy ride terminating far in the country where he runs out of gas and asks them to wait. They take a walk in the mountains and he goes away without them. They walk to the house of the county judge who is on the lookout for suspected elopers and has agreed to hold them for identification. They ask to use the phone and he locks them all in the room with barred windows. The salesman is arrested for speeding and is thrown into the same room. During the night the salesman wakes them every few minutes to make them a new and better proposition. In the morning the judge says, "You were all arrested by mistake. The laugh's on me."
- On the brink of starvation, and with the landlady at her heels for the room rent, Edna receives word from her lawyer that her grandfather's estate has been settled. The crooked lawyer wants to gain possession of the dilapidated estate of her grandfather, but she suspects his over eagerness and refuses to sell. She goes to the old homestead whence she has been preceded by the lawyer's henchmen, who perpetrate a reign of terror by simulating spooks in an effort to frighten her into selling. She battles the spooks and a mysterious black robed figure helps her until the ghosts are driven out. The rescuer turns out to be the lawyer's assistant, who took pity on the persecuted maiden and fell in love with her at first sight. The feeling is mutual.
- Betty and her dashing groom are showered by well meaning friends, but when a shoe is bounced off of Betty's bean, she tells her newly acquired hubby that they will not live together. Arriving at the hotel, she makes him scratch the "and wife" off of the register and takes a separate room. From then on their troubles begin. Another couple also seems to have domestic troubles and the other hubby gets a room on the same side of the corridor as the newly married fellow. The house detective, the best in the world since Sherlock Holmes, by his own admission, camps in the hallway behind a little potted palm to see that there is no monkey business. He then has the time of his young life chasing the respective hubbies and their respective wives back into their originally ordered rooms. Tiring of the pastime, the detective orders the hubbies to leave, one at a time. They get back into the hotel, secretly, landing in the wrong rooms. Wifies and hubbies then accuse each other until the detective enters. After a long chase, they lay the detective low and prove that they are married by their marriage licenses. Wifies and hubbies then decide to live with their respective mates.
- The experiences of an auto salesman in Mexico.
- This opens with election day scenes at Sunset City and goes on to picture the exciting manner in which Eddie helps to clean up a nest of bandits.
- Eddie's cowboy friends frame up to make him propose to his sweetheart.
- Eddie appears as a squatter named "Black Jack," who makes a strong fight for his rights against armed aggression. In the course of the story he kidnaps his own boy.
- Dan Farrar wants to help his sweetheart's father, whose ranch is to be foreclosed. He finds a pocketbook with a telegram in it stating that a railroad is to buy land bordering the ranch. He doctors the message and as a result land sharks, thinking this ranch is wanted by the railroad, race to offer the old man huge prices. The purchaser, finding out the hoax, tries to steal the lease, but his plot is frustrated. The heroine accepts Dan.
- Jimmy takes his boss' place in bed while said boss goes out to a poker game. Jimmy is discovered by his employer's wife, and a series of comical complications develop.
- This is a sort of Arabian Nights affair in which the minions of an Oriental king are unable to find his kidnapped daughter. He calls in two celebrated detectives, Jack and Al, and with their valet they locate the girl in a bandit's den and finally rescue her, but not until they have all sorts of encounters with the bandits who try all sorts of magic stunts to outwit the pair.
- A wandering cowboy saves the heroine from a runaway and wins her love after being suspected of robbery and finally capturing the rascally foreman who is the culprit.
- Maude the mule is entered as a literal dark horse and forlorn hope in a race. She wins after a series of scenes of what is undoubtedly the most remarkable horse-race ever filmed.
- Roy carries a flask on his hip. When this is discovered by his "dry" uncle he quickly adjusts a rubber nipple and declares it is baby's bottle. When the old man asks for the baby he is shown a doll. The finish introduces the merry conflict between bootleggers and revenue officers.
- At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
- Will, who attends single parent meetings to woo women, meets Marcus, a troubled 12-year-old boy. As they become friends, Will learns to be responsible while he helps Marcus with his studies.
- Prof. Felix Euclid McSwain leaves his apartment perfectly dressed except that he has forgotten to put on his pants. He can't understand why the elevators won't stop for him or why the women all scream when they see him. His wife finally rescues him and makes him put on his pants. This time he forgets his underwear. She calls his attention to the error and he puts his B. V. D's. on over his pants. Leaving the house with a string around each finger, his wife tells him not to forget whose birthday it is. But he forgets who was born on that day and buys a present for each of his wife's relatives to make sure. Among the presents he totes home are a lawn mower and a pet duck. The duck gets away from him and he chases it under a park bench. It bites a woman's calf and he is attacked as a bold flirt. He arrives home late at the birthday party where all the relatives are assembled, dragging all the presents after him. It turns out to be his own birthday.
- Two aviation aces land rather hard on a roof. Being woozy from the shock, they imagine that spring has returned, and that they are little Birdies, fluttering about. They flutter too far on one occasion, and land on the sidewalk, which they mistake for a pool where gay mermaids are wont to disport. An insurance agent dashes up and revives them with a bucket of water. The agent has his argument illustrated when a passing egg is almost scrambled by a reckless motorist. The boys immediately heed his advice and take out policies on each other's lives. A motor truck hook catches Percy Small and Johnny Stout follows. Through mud and all sorts of other disastrous elements, Percy is dragged. Finally, his trousers tear and Percy falls, bounding downhill, knocking Johnny off his feet. Percy lands in a concrete mixer and Johnny helps him to wash himself clean under a railway water tower. Then, they hear their little girl friend, Mabel, scream for aid. The boys dash in, and are stunned to see ghost-like critters ambling about. They battle their way through thick and thin, and when they succeed, Mabel thanks them for her father, explaining that he is trying out a new initiation trick.
- Nervy Ned is an agent for accident insurance. He is very successful. He is in love with his boss's daughter, but her father refuses to consent to the marriage until he has insured Hank Morgan, the hardest man in town. He tries, and after being kicked out of the office about a dozen times, he succeeds in insuring him. He goes back to claim his reward, and sees several people he insured coming out of the office, bandaged but rich, having collected their insurance. His boss throws him down the steps, and Ned goes back to claim his money and the girl. He gets both.
- Papa, trying to show how Buffalo Bill or Hoot Gibson ride, gets thrown and his horse gets lost. Chester finally locates it in a haystack and brings it back to Andy. They all ride to the George Washington Golf Club (where nobody tells a lie - much). Andy's ball rolls off the tee so Chester affixes it with his chewing gum. Andy drives, but the ball flies back and hits him in the eye. An expert tees off his watch and holes out in one. Andy wants to show Min how good he is and borrows a watch from a man whose wife won it for dancing seven hours in a telephone booth. He, also, holes out in one; but with the watch, having completely missed the ball. The watch is wrecked and the owner has a fit. Later, Andy gets bunkered and takes a dozen strokes, claiming he only took three, the others having been used to kill a rattlesnake. He sees a caddy steal his ball and goes after him. All the other caddies come to their mate's rescue and Andy gets beaten up.
- This musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the cross-dressing actress who specializes in comic female roles. The story culminates on closing night, when cast and crew recreate the "Alalum," a traditional piece by Aristophanes resplendent with the unexpected, the spontaneous and the insane.
- Alex and Marissa are the greatest thieves.
- Professor Brian Cox questions whether we are alone in the universe. There might be more planets than stars in our galaxy - but will we find a second Earth?
- Mr. Thurlow Finch is a grouch. His wife asks him if he wants to go to a masque ball given for charity. He refuses. A pretty girl asks him to buy a ticket for the ball, but he tells her he has no one to go with. She tells him he can take her. He is to call her up at five o'clock. Central gets the wires crossed and he talks to his wife instead. He tries to sneak out to go to the ball, but his wife always catches him. As a last resort she makes him go to bed, and takes all his clothes. The janitor comes in and Thurlow dresses in the janitor's clothes and gets out. He meets the girl, and his wife goes with a friend. The girl and his wife are both dressed alike. He tells the girl that his wife is an awful dumb-bell. They unmask and he finds he is talking to his wife. She takes him by the ear and makes him go home.
- A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
- Homesick for America, Jack and his pals get aboard a ship U. S.-bound disguised as entertainers. As entertainers they're flops, but evoke considerable mirth among the passengers by their efforts. Jack arouses the jealousy of a Frenchman, who is keen on a young French girl, and is challenged to a fight. The Frenchman fights a la Savatte (the French method, including kicking, bucking, etc.) and is getting the better of Jack, until the latter dons a pair of hobnailed brogans. He consents to remove these if his adversary will put boxing gloves on his feet. The Frenchman gets seasick and is counted out as he leans over the rail, where he is soon joined by Jack.
- This film traces the story of the German-Jewish Auerbach family of Oppingen, Germany, from 1933 through 1945. The film begins with home movies in the 1930s and follows Inge Auerbach from her hometown to her deportation to Theresienstadt, where she suffered for 3 1/2 years and was among the 100 children who survived. Rare footage is accompanied by on-camera interviews of Inge and her mother on a return visit to their town, and to Theresienstadt, where an amazing amount of photographs and documents were saved. Interviews with former Nazi Party members, townspeople, and the switchboard operator from Theresienstadt are conducted by German high school students and exposes German citizens who attempt to deny and conceal their involvement in the Holocaust.
- Buddy tries for three days to frame a letter to his sweetie. When it is completed, he shoots it to her across the alleyway by using an electric fan. Then he swings across on a chair suspended by ropes. Sweetie's dad sees his trick and reaches out to grab him, but he falls, dropping ten stories. Dashing to get away, he knocks over several people, and has a merry time before he escapes. Arriving home, he phones his sweetie to meet him at a friend's from where they are to elope. His father gets wind of his intentions, and phones the girl's father. The two mad papas start after them. The would-be elopers arrive at the marriage license bureau in time to hear another couple ordered home until the girl grows up. They skip out and return. Buddy wears a fake mustache and his sweetie wears glasses and oldish clothes. After the civil license is issued, they are told to see the minister down the street. As they leave, their fathers enter. The couple grab a horse cab and when they arrive at the minister's home, the latter eyes them suspiciously, he having been forewarned by a telephone call from the parents, who dash in, and give their respective "babes" a sound spanking.
- So delighted is Jack that his rival is going away for the Summer, he takes him to the train in his roadster and gets pinched for speeding. He spends five days in jail and when he comes out he finds that his girl's cousin has been on the scene and again he is thwarted. But the cousin finally pulls stakes and Jack settles down for a little chat with his beloved, only to be interrupted by the ringing of the bell. In comes his hated rival, back home because his cabin in the country had burned down. Jack is beside himself with despair, but he suddenly thinks of an idea and calls the police station, telling them that the real speeder is there and to come and get him. And so, with his rival in the hoosegow, Jack is at last secure in being alone with his sweetheart. He hadn't figured on her father, though, and that worthy appears on the scene and suggests that it is time to put out the light. Jack agrees with him and though he follows the suggestion he does not go home.
- This documentary examines the 1948 episode of the Altalena, a ship whose fate nearly incited civil war in the newly-established State of Israel. Immediately after Israel attained statehood, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion established a national army into which several independent Jewish defense forces, small armies with their own political philosophies, were supposed to unite. However, on June 20, 1948, the Altalena arrived off Israel carrying 930 World War II refugees and a stockpile of ammunition amassed by the Irgun (one of the independent defense forces) in direct violation of Ben Gurion's new military chain-of-command. In the midst of the ship's landing and a cease-fire in the War of Independence, Ben Gurion gave the order to shell the ship, forcing Jews to fire on Jews and almost sparking a civil war. The late Yitzhak Rabin was one of the participants in this event and is interviewed here along with many other eye witnesses. The controversy surrounding the Altalena affair continues to reverberate in current Israeli politics.
- Visits master cellist Gregor Piatigorsky at his home where he spends a typical day strolling through his garden, talking to his wife, working with his students, and playing the cello. Interviewed shortly before his death at age seventy-three, he reveals his graceful acceptance of aging, his genuine affection for his students, and his passionate devotion to his music.
- Billy Langdon, vamped by Stella Glendenning, a wealthy tourist, manages to get in wrong with his girl, Joyce, when she sees him too attentive to the city girl, who, she thinks, winked at Billy. The Glendennings' auto breaks down, and its occupants held up and robbed by two "blanket stiffs." Joyce, happening by on horse back, sends in an appeal for help to the railroad station by means of a telephone lineman's apparatus. Bill and the posse set out in answer to her S. O. S. He overtakes the tramps, recovers the loot and squares himself with Joyce.
- Andy goes to Old Timers farm for a rest. He goes in swimming and two goats chew up his clothing. In the meantime a telegram arrives from the neighborhood town asking Andy to come and speak. Min finds Andy in the lake and his clothes gone. He rushes home in Min's petticoat and gets dressed. They race with the train to the crossing, but the train hits them and they find themselves on the fender. They arrive at the station and the whole town is asleep. Andy awakes the people in the hotel and is greeted with a great ovation. The people ask him to make a speech, but he would rather get dressed first and goes upstairs. Little Chester, while playing croquet, hits the ball and breaks open a hornet's nest right over Andy's pants, and the hornets hide themselves in them. Andy slips on his pants while reading over his speech and does not feel the hornets until he has his suspenders over his shoulders. He then starts to run wild all over. He runs into a smokeroom and smokes them out. Andy is asked to deliver his speech and he asks for a stump. Meanwhile, the city is dynamiting all stumps and the one Andy starts to speak on is already charged. The last line of his speech is that his position will take him to dizzy heights and he is blown sky-high and lands on a telephone pole.
- Bound for Australia, Andy manages to break about a dozen flasks of hootch belonging to the man in the adjoining cabin. He meets Miss Summers, the blonde vamp, and unintentionally arouses Min's jealous streak. Their ship wrecked by a derelict, the women passengers and Andy are cast on a desert island, where Gump is made sultan by the women. He has considerable difficulty in fishing, being caught by an alligator. Trying to milk a cow, he is beaned by a rock he's tied to the bovine's tail to keep it still, and later, after tying the tail to his belt, is dragged all about the island by the indignant moo-moo.
- The leader of a biker gang is forced to come to terms with his hazardous lifestyle through the relationship he developes with a little girl on a lone ranch in Arizona.
- Cleo's nose, stung by a bee concealed in a bouquet given her by Julius Caesar, swells up and has to be fixed by her beauty doctor, who tries out several shapes before he finds one that appeals to the historical vamp. Anthony arrives on the scene, cuts Caesar out with Cleo and runs away with her down the Nile in his two-oared galley. Caesar sics his pet alligator on the fleeing couple, the boat breaks in half, and Mark manages to capture the reptile. As the two rivals gamble for Cleopatra's hand, she runs off with Ramesis in his Ford chariot, but the machine breaks down and Cleo, like many other girls since, has to walk home.
- When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
- A summer replacement for a lunchtime talk show, Atlantic summer originated two weeks in Halifax and two weeks in St. John's. (The St. John's show reappeared the next summer.) It replaced the centralism of Toronto production with local Maritime personalities and entertainment. The hosts were Denny Doherty, seen most recently in the variety series Denny's Sho*, and newscaster Sharon Dunne in Halifax, Shirley Newhook, host of the local afternoon show, Coffee Break, in St. John's. Jack O'Neil produced in Nova Scotia and Wayne Guzwell (l978) and Leo Williams (l979) in Newfoundland.
- A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.
- Puffy and his pal, camping at the top of a bluff, flirt with Elsie, camping at the bottom. Puffy reaches her by sliding down a rope and makes a hit with the beauty. His jealous companion attempting to do likewise, falls down and lands on a bed spring at the bottom, bouncing back to the top. Puffy demonstrates to the admiring girl how he used to juggle wheat cakes when he was a doughboy throwing them sky high and catching them in the frying pan behind his back. The pal at the top of the bluff catches one which he fills with gunpowder and drops it back. When Puffy puts it on the stove there is an explosion which breaks up the camp. They move their camps, pitching their tents on a railroad track. The morning express tears through the tents carrying away on the fender all the members of the outfit except Elsie and Puffy who discover themselves waking up from the wreck in fond embrace.
- Barbie, a space Princess, sees her world rapidly change when the stars in the sky begin to fade away. On her fascinating voyage to a new planet, she joins forces with a special rescue team. Is cosmic Barbie the hero the universe needs?
- Harry has trouble persuading his kid brother to take a bath, and chases him through the streets; the boy in his bath robe and Harry in his automobile bath tub. Meanwhile, Queenie, after getting her bath, is kidnapped by the suitor for the hand of Harry's sister. The suitor tries to camouflage the horse, so that he may gain the girl's favor by giving her, apparently, another horse. Queenie foils his plot, however, and after many thrilling experiences, including the flooding of the house by the bathroom's overflow, everything ends happily.
- The men of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. along with the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) immerse the audience in a world of coordination, rhythm, and skill with their annual Royal and Pure Homecoming Stroll-Off. Step-dancing is a historical form of communication and storytelling that has become an integral part of historically Black national sororities and fraternities. Over the years, sequences have become very intricate and demanding, incorporating props, high levels of precision, and other elements of creativity.