Harry Wismer Movies

  • 1951
    Touchdown Town

    Touchdown Town

    Touchdown Town

    01951HD

    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 stad...

    Touchdown Town
  • 1956
    Four Minute Fever

    Four Minute Fever

    Four Minute Fever

    01956HD

    Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It start...

    Four Minute Fever
  • 1956
    Four Minute Fever

    Four Minute Fever

    Four Minute Fever

    01956HD

    Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It start...

    Four Minute Fever
  • 1956
    Basketball Headliners

    Basketball Headliners

    Basketball Headliners

    01956HD

    This short shows highlights from several basketball games at two postseason tournaments in 1956. They include the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final g...

    Basketball Headliners
  • 1956
    Canoeman's Holiday

    Canoeman's Holiday

    Canoeman's Holiday

    51956HD

    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 tak...

    Canoeman's Holiday
  • 1956
    Big Blue Goose

    Big Blue Goose

    Big Blue Goose

    41956HD

    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
    Holland Sailing

    Holland Sailing

    Holland Sailing

    01956HD

    This Sportscope series entry highlights sailboat races in Holland.

    Holland Sailing
  • 1956
    Ice Climbers

    Ice Climbers

    Ice Climbers

    01956HD

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

    Ice Climbers
  • 1957
    Basque Sports

    Basque Sports

    Basque Sports

    01957HD

    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....

    Basque Sports
  • 1945
    On Stage Everybody

    On Stage Everybody

    On Stage Everybody

    01945HD

    Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

    On Stage Everybody
  • 1948
    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    The Babe Ruth Story

    5.81948HD

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

    The Babe Ruth Story
  • 1956
    Aqua Babes

    Aqua Babes

    Aqua Babes

    51956HD

    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 Acad...

    Aqua Babes
  • 1956
    High Dive Kids

    High Dive Kids

    High Dive Kids

    01956HD

    In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of th...

    High Dive Kids
  • 1948
    Operation White Tower

    Operation White Tower

    Operation White Tower

    01948HD

    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 rec...

    Operation White Tower