FredCDobbs

LOL, First, I came up with WAITRESSES ON A CHAIN GANG. Then I came up with HARVEY GIRLS ON A CHAIN GANG Then HARVEY IN PRISON And many others, before I got the right one.

Girls in Chains (1943)

Ok I have it. I'll give others a chance.

JOHNNY ONE EYE (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vLGVGt7ESw

This was a real place in NYC in 1953:

My Sister Eileen (1955) Hey! Where is everyone?? Am I alone here??

At about 2 minutes into this clip, see the white sheet cutaway. The master shot is the man sitting and thinking. The cutaways (several of them) are the kids playing with the sheet.

The Crooked Way 1949 Hmm.... looks like a prison, looks like a hospital...... hmm, how about a big federal hospital, something like a major VA Hospital??

My Dear Secretary (1948)

A Rage to Live (1965)

Doomed To Die (1940) aka: Mystery of the Wentworth Castle The opening scenes are based on the newsreel film of the SS Morro Castle cruise ship, which mysteriously caught fire in 1934. So I figured the movie in question was made after 1934. There are struts of a bi-plane in some of the newsreel film, and that suggests a plane still in use in the late 30s or early 40s, which helps narrow down the year the film was made.

In the REPLY TO THIS TOPIC box, first click on the blue-green button that is 3rd from the left in the top row of code symbols. You should then see the message that says Special BBCode. Then click on Please select. Then click on Media Then copy and paste your YouTube URL code in the URL box. You should be able to find this code up at the top left of your computer page when you are watching the YouTube video. Then click on OK Then click on Post That should post your message with the YouTube video embedded and visible as a large image with a large red arrow in the middle of it. Click on that arrow to view video, just as you see here...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uh4nvIoIw

The Hour Before the Dawn 1944

The text reads: OFFICIAL MUNICIPAL BALLOT

To the right of the word Estonian is a little arrow. Click on that, then click on TRANSLATE CAPTIONS. That will give you a drop down window listing many languages. Scroll down to ENGLISH and click on that. Then click OK. This is a great film. It should be shown with The Mortal Storm. Show this one first because it shows Germany in 1933 before Hitler is appointed Chancellor and while the Communists are still strong and large in number, and then at the end, Hitler is appointed, and all of a sudden the Communists begin to be rounded up and taken to prison camps, and the nice sweet young German Nazi boys suddenly begin to turn strong and mean and quickly grow in number. This is a perfect film to show BEFORE The Mortal Storm. These films fit together perfectly, and together they represent a good history lesson.

Thelma, As your movie plays, click on CC and change the language to ENGLISH, and you will see English subtitles. Not perfect, but they will help.

Kidd, I’m getting a lot of mixed messages during my search for your still frames. For example, I keep turning up references to the “Penrod and Sam” films, which were made in 1923, 1931, and 1937. However, there is a lot of mixed and confusing information about these films on YouTube and IMDB, including different copyright dates such as 1936 and 1932, and two different dogs playing Duke, such as these: 1931? named Duke, white with black spots, professional actor’s name “Cameo the Dog”. This is the dog in your still frame: 1937, named Duke (black with white patch on face), professional name not known. CLICK ON THIS LINK: http://cdnbakmi.kaltura.com/p/357521/sp/35752100/thumbnail/entry_id/0_518o52qy/width/480/ Although the 1931 Duke is a different dog, an IMDB review says this about the 1931 film: Nicely filmed version of the Booth Tarkington novel, done with loads of charm. About a small town boy named Penrod and his adventures with his best pal/sidekick Sam - school scenes, a birthday party, touching scenes between Penrod and his dog Duke, the kids putting on a circus with Penrod as "ringmaster", and lots of stuff about the boys and their gang of kids who have this secret club And that description matches some of your other still frames. However, I can’t find a full copy of any of the Penrod and Sam films on YouTube that show any of your still frames. So, maybe you can give us some clues to point us in the right direction? For example, do all of your still frames come from a movie that is shown in full on YouTube? If so, then we will keep searching. Fred

Thelma, Thanks so much for that interesting movie. This covers a part of Germany history that we don't normally get to see on American television, which is the 1920s and 30s battles, in Germany, between the Communists and the early Nazis.

Yikes! This movie becomes more frightening the more often I see it. Dan Dailey as a mean Nazi, when he should be dancing and singing!!

BLACK FURY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOemvzHPkfo

Fiend Without a Face (1958)

Kid Galahad, 1962 (Elvis is riding on the back of that moving van)

SANCTUARY (1961)

Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

Since photographing the Panama Canal was not allowed just before and during WW II, and for some time afterwards, I figured the film must have been made before about 1939 or after about 1948. That saved me some search time.