Nathaniel Shilkret Movies

Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real...

This Traveltalk series short takes a look at Hong Kong.

A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.

This FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits Holland in springtime, going first to the below-sea-level fishing village of Volendam, then to the capital...

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...

This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United States.

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

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

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...

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 Traveltalk visit to Ireland starts with a look at the countryside, with its farms, small villages, and fields with walls and fences built of...

This Traveltalk series short visits Los Angeles, California. In one of the highlights of the film, narrator James FitzPatrick visits the Disney...

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...

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...

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.

A visit to Singapore, an essential port city in Britain's empire, established in 1813 when Raffles negotiated its separation from the independent...

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

A short film about Mardi Gras in New Orleans from the point of view of those who make Carnival happen.