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Give Us The Earth (1947)

We are about to begin film preservation work on "One Man's Journey" (1933) and 5 other long unseen RKO classics. They will premiere on TCM sometime in 2007. "One Man's Journey" is a terrific picture. It stars Lionel Barrymore in one his best and most understated performances. Also in the cast are May Robson, Joel McCrea, and Frances Dee. This picture has been unseen for nearly 50 years.

10/3 - 10/8, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 10/3, 5:32am EST - "The City of Little Men" 10/3, 7:52pm EST - "Ryan's Daughter - Featurette" 10/3, 9:37pm EST - "The Sky Divers" 10/4, 1:42pm EST - "Water Wisdom" 10/4, 6:19pm EST - "World Famous Musical Hits" 10/5, 8:49am EST - "The Fighting 69 1/2th" 10/5, 3:36pm EST - "Give Us the Earth" 10/5, 5:48pm EST - "Portrait of an Actor" 10/5. 7:55pm EST - "Present With a Future" 10/6, 2:32am EST - "She Was An Acrobat's Daughter" 10/6, 7:47am EST - "A Penny A Peep" 10/6, 5:35pm EST - "Hot Spot" 10/6, 7:44pm EST - "Musical Masterpieces" 10/7, 4:33am EST - "Sea Spiders" 10/7, 7:34am EST - "Neighborhood House" 10/8, 12:03pm EST - "Meeting the Challenge" 10/8, 11:24pm EST - "The Future Is Now"

We are about to begin film preservation work on "Stingaree" and 5 other long unseen RKO classics. They will premiere on TCM sometime in 2007.

9/28 - 10/3, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 9/28, 5:01am EST - "Radio Runaround" 9/28, 8:07am EST - "Chases of Pimple Street" 9/29, 9:10am EST - "Infantile Paralysis - Greer Garson" 9/30, 4:46am EST - "Weekend in Hollywood" 9/30, 11:13am EST - "Hollywood Hist-O-Rama: W.C. Fields" 9/30, 1:42pm EST - "Along the Cactus Trail" 9/30, 3:36pm EST - "Paree, Paree" 9/30, 5:37pm EST - "Pastoral Panoramas" 10/1, 1:51am EST - "Flea Circus" 10/1, 6:34am EST - "Oliver! - Featurette" 10/1, 4:03pm EST - "MGM Jubilee Overture" 10/2, 1:15pm EST - "Woody Herman and His Orchestra" 10/2, 4:26pm EST - "Slapsie Maxie's" 10/2, 6:48pm EST - "Victory Quiz" 10/2, 7:50pm EST - "Bubbles" 10/3, 5:32am EST - "The City of Little Men" 10/3, 7:52pm EST - "Ryan's Daughter - Featurette" 10/3 9:37pm EST - "The Sky Divers"

9/23 - 9/28, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 9/23, 1:39am EST - "Tell-Tale Heart" 9/24, 11:38am EST - "The Nickelette" 9/24, 1:49pm EST - "Black Cats and Broomsticks" 9/24, 8:14pm EST - "Jasper National Park" 9/25, 5:41am EST - "One Good Turn" 9/25, 9:20am EST - "Matinee Idle" 9/25, 10:47am EST - "Mashienblick" 9/25, 12:19pm EST - "Little Journeys to Great Masters" 9/25, 1:38pm EST - "Nature in the Wrong" 9/25, 5:50pm EST - "Crashing the Movies" 9/25, 7:34pm EST - "Bring 'Em Back a Wife" 9/26, 9:15am EST - "Beautiful Brazil" 9/26, 1:11pm EST - "Movie Memories #1" 9/27, 2:42am EST - "Hollywood Wonderland" 9/27, 12:20pm EST - "Aqua Antics" 9/28, 5:01am EST - "Radio Runaround" 9/28, 8:07am EST - "Chases of Pimple Street"

9/18 - 9/23, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 9/18, 3:50am EST - "On Location" The Great Waltz '72" 9/18, 9:32am EST - "Jimmy Fidler's Personality Parade" 9/18, 6:16pm EST - "Heroes at Leisure" 9/18, 10:48pm EST - "Meeting the Challenge" 9/19, 5:39am EST - "Operation Raintree" 9/20, 7:34am EST - "Darkness Into Light" 9/20, 11:18am EST - "San Sebastian 1746 in 1968" 9/20, 7:21pm EST - "The Hoaxsters" 9/21, 12:59pm EST - "The Easy Life" 9/22, 2:05am EST - "Quaint St. Augustine" 9/22, 5:33am EST - "Case of the 20% Federal Admissions Tax" 9/22, 8:50am EST - "The Grand Dame" 9/22, 1:19pm EST - "The Rainbow Pass" 9/22, 3:32pm EST - "The Nickelette" 9/22, 3:47pm EST - "Nine O'Clock Folks" 9/22, 5:42pm EST - "Hot Dog" 9/22, 7:47pm EST - "All Eyes on Sharron Tate" 9/23, 1:39am EST - "Tell-Tale Heart"

9/13 - 9/18, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 9/13, 5:47am EST - "The Story That Couldn't Be Printed" 9/13, 7:45pm EST - "Sportsman's Memories" 9/13, 11:50pm EST - "Game Warden" 9/14, 5:35am EST - "Trial By Trigger" 9/14, 5:36pm EST - "Plan For Destruction" 9/14, 10:14pm EST - "Lion Roars Again" 9/15, 1:47am EST - "On Location with FAME" 9/15, 5:14am EST - "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (Exhibitors Preview Reel) 9/15 - 9/16, 6am - 6am (please consult the TCM program guide) 9/16, 7:33am EST - "Ladies Last" 9/16, 11:15am EST - "Home Early" 9/16, 4:15pm EST - "Challenge of Champions" 9/16, 9:37pm EST - "Give Us the Earth" 9/17, 1:46am EST - "Challenge of the Wilderness" 9/17, 3:48am EST - "Bargain Madness" 9/17, 11:38am EST - "Pony Express Days" 9/17, 7:47pm EST - "Pat Neal Is Back" 9/18, 3:50am EST - "On Location" The Great Waltz '72"

"Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" is going to be shown in Letterbox. The guide is often printed before the "Distribution Masters" arrive in Atlanta.

The Lana Turner "Interview" number was shot for MGM's 30th Anniversary salute on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town". We have a 35mm fine grain in the vaults because MGM shot it at the studio. Lana's number was not performed live at CBS Television City like all of ther others that were included in the MGM Anniversary show.

9/6 - 9/13, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 9/6, 5:26am EST - "The Battle of Gettysburg" 9/6, 7:02pm EST - "Servant of Mankind" 9/6, 9:39pm EST - "Command Performance" 9/7, 1:46am EST - "Capital City: Washington D.C." 9/7, 5:10am EST - "The Lion Roars Again" 9/7, 6:03pm EST - "Camera Sleuth" 9/7, 10:33pm EST - "Private Lessons" 9/8, 1:49am EST - "Film Antics" 9/8, 9:35pm EST - "I'm Much Obliged" 9/9, 7:36am EST - "Know Your Money" 9/9, 9:38am EST - "Bigger and Better" 9/10, 5:36am EST - "Ladies Last" 9/10, 7:39am EST - "Neptune Mysteries" 9/10, 3:19pm EST - "This Is a Living?" 9/10, 9:43pm EST - "Golden Glamour" 9/10, 11:48pm EST - "Alfred The Great - Featurette" 9/11, 5:38am EST - "The Making of 2010" 9/11, 7:50pm EST - "Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific" 9/11, 11:08pm EST - "Romance Road" 9/12, 5:47am EST - "Nostradamus IV" 9/12, 8:59am EST - "Paris on Parade" 9/12, 1:27pm EST - "Challenge of Champions" 9/12, 3:36pm EST - "Jimmy Fund - Deborah Kerr" 9/13, 5:47am EST - "The Story That Couldn't Be Printed"

9/1 - 9/6, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 9/1, 5:48am EST - "Film Fun" 9/1, 6:43am EST - "MGM Jubilee Overture" 9/1, 11:14am EST - "Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra" 9/1, 1:18pm - "Cairo - City of Contrast" 9/1, 5:37pm - "Syncopated City" 9/2, 3:51am EST - "On Location: The Great Waltz '72" 9/2, 7:38am EST "A Panic in the Parlor" 9/2, 9:40am EST - "Larry Clinton and His Orchestra" 9/3, 9:47am EST - "Annie Laurie" 9/4, 1:41am EST - "1925 MGM Studios Tour" 9/4, 4:32am EST - "Nostradamus Says So" 9/4, 5:49pm EST - "Visiting St. Louis" 9/4, 7:38pm EST - "Respect the Law" 9/4, 9:34pm EST - "March on America" 9/5, 5:46am EST - "Nickelette" 9/5, 8:14am EST - "The Happy Hottentots" 9/6, 5:26am EST - "The Battle of Gettysburg"

It is subject to the Supreme Court's ABEND decision and is currently not distributable.

8/27 - 9/1, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 8/27, 6:17pm EST - "Souvenirs of Death" 8/28, 7:39am EST - "The Stupor-visor" 8/28, 9:37pm EST - "War Mamas" 8/29, 3:39am EST - "The Hotel Anchovy" 8/29, 5:38am EST - "Spotlight" 8/29, 7:26am EST - "Love Pains" 8/29, 9:48am EST - "Visiting Italy" 8/29, 2:04pm EST - "The Car That Became a Star" 8/30, 2:24am EST - "Wedding in Monaco" 8/30, 5:16am EST - "Some of the Best - 1949" 8/30, 7:41am EST - "Blackboard Jumble" 8/30, 9:44pm EST - "Where Eagles Dare" - Featurette 9/1, 5:48am EST - "Film Fun"

8/22 - 8/27, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 8/22, 9:45pm EST - "Have You Ever Wondered?" 8/24, 5:46am EST - "Twenty Years After" 8/24, 7:15am EST - "Mouse in Manhattan" 8/24, 11:03pm EST - "Beautiful Brazil" 8/25, 7:49pm EST - "Let's Sing a Song of the West" 8/25, 9:49 pm EST - "Important News" 8/26, 2:05am EST - "Batty Baseball" 8/26, 4:05am EST - "Snow Time For Comedy" 8/26, 12:34pm EST - "Gym College" 8/26, 4:10pm EST - "Will Rogers Memorial Hospital" (Cary Grant) 8/27, 6:17pm EST - "Souvenirs of Death"

I believe that the group was called 'Six Hits and a Miss' as well. I also seem to remember that they did some of the background singing in "The Wizard of Oz".

8/16 - 8/22, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 8/16, 4:32am EST - "Six Hits and a Miss" 8/16, 4:19pm EST - "In the Land of Diamonds" 8/16, 9:45pm EST - "Love On Tap" 8/17, 7:06am EST - "The Old Bull" 8/17, 8:54am EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: Carole Lombard" 8/17, 10:23am EST - "Masks and Memories" 8/17, 3:21pm EST - "Maid For a Day" 8/17, 5:05pm EST - "Hot News Margie" 8/17, 10:48pm EST - "Weather Wizards" 8/18, 6:03pm EST - "The Emergency Case" 8/18, 10:44pm EST - "The Crazy House" 8/19, 11:30am EST - "Amalfi Way" 8/20, 1:35am EST - "Darkness Into Light" 8/20, 5:45am EST - "The King of the Duplicators" 8/20, 2:09pm EST - "Operation Raintree" 8/21, 3:10am EST - "Salute to the Theatres" 8/21, 7:47am EST - "The Jonker Diamond" 8/21, 4:18pm EST - "After Autumn: Douglas Fairbanks Jr." 8/22, 8:01am EST - "Private Lessons" 8/22, 12:10pm EST - "Let's Sing Grandfather's Favorites" 8/22, 4:07pm EST - "Platinum Blonde" 8/22, 9:45pm EST - "Have You Ever Wondered?"

8/11 - 8/16, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 8/11, 5:40am EST - "Gem-Jams" 8/11, 9:48pm EST - "Slick Hare" 8/13, 3:35am EST - "Plan For Destruction" 8/13, 5:32am EST - "Lion Power" 8/13, 7:43am EST - "This Is the Bowery" 8/13, 5:46pm EST - "Donkey Baseball" 8/14, 3:49am EST - "The Sunshine Boys" Featurette 8/15, 7:33am EST - "Big City Fantasy" 8/15, 12:36pm - "Flirtation Walk" Featurette 8/15, 4:47pm EST - "Lambchops" 8/15, 10:24pm EST - "Giovanni Martinelli: Vesti La Giubba" 8/16, 4:32am EST - "Six Hits and a Miss"

8/8 - 8/11 , All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 8/8, 5:45am EST - "Every Sunday" 8/8, 7:49pm EST - "Woody Herman and His Orchestra" 8/9, 2:18pm EST - "Carnival In Paris" 8/9, 6:04pm EST - "World Famous Musical Hits" 8/9, 9:46pm EST - "MGM Jubilee Overture" 8/9, 11:48pm EST - "Mexican Police On Parade" 8/10, 4:08am EST - "Jimmy Fund - Debbie Reynolds" 8/10, 7:31am EST - "Mighty Hunters" 8/10, 10:51pm EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: John Garfield" 8/11, 5:40am EST - "Gem-Jams" 8/11, 9:48pm EST - "Slick Hare"

8/2 - , All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 8/2, 4:04am EST - "Searchers For a Special City" 8/2, 12:05pm EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: Marx Bros." 8/2, 7:47pm EST - "Opry House" 8/3, 3:38am EST - "Over the Counter" 8/3, 5:31am EST - "Sealskins" 8/3, 8:22am EST - "The Daffy Doc" 8/3, 7:47am EST - "Black Cats and Broomsticks" 8/4, 4:50pm EST - "The Vanishing Duck" 8/4, 9:54pm EST - "Gangster Film Festival Trailer" 8/4, 12:10am EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: Gregory Peck" 8/5, 5:51am EST - "Porky's Duck Hunt" 8/6, 1:47am EST - "So You Want To Keep Your Hair" 8/6, 3:47am EST - "Wild Boar Hunt" 8/6, 7:42am EST - "The Dirty Dozen" Featurette 8/7/, 2:20am EST - "Redd Fox Becomes a Movie Star" Featurette 8/7, 7:39am EST - "Coffins On Wheels" 8/7, 11:18am EST - "Circus Today" 8/7, 10:21pm EST - "Moonshine War" Featurette 8/8, 12:08am EST - "Oklahoma Outlaw" 8/8, 2:17am EST - "Joaquin Murrietta" 8/8, 5:45am EST - "Every Sunday"

It was actually a "Restored Two-strip Technicolor" except from "It's a Great Life" (MGM-1929). The musical number was "Sailing on Sunbeam".

7/27 - 8/2, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 7/27, 5:41am EST - "MGM Pictures 1937 Convention" 7/27, 8:04am EST - "Horse With The Human Mind" 7/27, 11:21am EST - "Heir Bear" 7/28, 2:19am EST - "Big Sur - Sandpiper" Featurette 7/28, 7:03am EST - "The Comedians in Africa" 7/28, 12:23pm EST - "The Soilers" 7/28, 2:21pm EST - "Ben-Hur: Behind the Scenes" 7/28, 7:54pm EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: Rita Hayworth" 7/28, 9:43pm EST - "Forty Boys and a Song" 7/28, 11:39pm EST - "Andy Hardy's Dilemma" 7/29, 5:38am EST - "Looking at London" 7/29, 7:48am EST - "Seattle: Gateway to the Northwest" 7/29, 9:04am EST - "Water Sports" 7/29, 11:16am EST - "Million Dollar Nickel" 7/29, 5:41pm EST - "Old Hickory" 7/29, 7:52pm EST - "Meatless Flyday" 7/29, 11:39pm EST - "Too Many Women" 7/30, 7:54am EST - "Infantile Paralysis" (Greer Garson) 7/30, 9:49am EST "See Your Doctor" 7/30, 11:39am EST - "Dancing On the Ceiling" 7/30, 9:36pm EST - "Doctor's Orders" 7/30, 11:44pm EST - "Africa Speaks English" 7/31, 8:30am EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: William Powell" 7/31, 8:36am EST - "Stars on Horseback" 7/31, 2:54pm EST - "Hollywood Hist-o-rama: Myrna Loy" 7/31, 11:34pm EST - "Movies Are Adventure" 8/1, 5:39am EST - "I Won't Play" 8/1, 11:19am EST - "Just Suppose" 8/1, 2:48pm EST - "You, John Jones!" 8/1, 7:49pm EST - "What's Your I.Q.?" 8/2, 12:09am EST - "Moscow in Madrid" 8/2, 4:04am EST - "Searchers For a Special City"

The shorts are scheduled 5 - 7 days before air.

Actor James Cromwell

7/22 - 7/27, All times Eastern, approximate and subject to change: 7/22, 7:49am EST - "Where Is Jane Doe?" 7/22, 11:19am EST - "Let's Dance" 7/22, 3:50pm EST - "White Peril" 7/22, 5:38pm EST - "Romance of Louisiana" 7/22, 9:48pm EST - "We Never Sleep" 7/23, 7:48am EST - "Movie Memories #1" 7/23, 11:49am EST - "Water Trix" 7/23, 3:41pm EST - "A Look at the World of Soylent Green" Featurette 7/23, 3:55pm EST - "Will Rogers Hospital Promo - Cary Grant" 7/23, 5:49pm EST - "Law and the Lab" 7/23, 9:40pm EST - "L.B. Mayer Ceremonies" 7/24, 7:20am EST - "Cartoons Ain't Human" 7/24, 9:19am EST - "This Theatre and You" 7/24, 6:16pm EST "Annie Was a Wonder" 7/25, 12:04pm EST - "Northward Ho!" 7/26, 11:32am EST - "Every Girls Dream" 7/26, 5:51pm EST - "Background Beat" 7/26, 7:44pm EST - "Crashing the Movies" 7/27, 5:41am EST - "MGM Pictures 1937 Convention"