Summary: An explanation of how nature produces topsoil from the basic raw materials of rock, water, air, and sunlight. The film emphasizes the necessity for an organized conservation program to save our natural resources. Includes animated drawings. For high school students and adult groups.
Credits: Director, George E. Brewer, Jr.; story, John H. Storer.
© New York Zoological Society; 6Jul48; MP3452.
BIRTHDAY. SEE Heaven Can Wait.
BIRTHDAY BLUES. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1944. 17 min., sd.
Credits: Producer, George Bilson; direction and screenplay, Hal Yates; film editor, Lyle Boyer.
© RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.; 31Dec44; LP13164.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA. Marshall Grant-Realm Television Productions, c1949. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on the story by Oscar Wilde.
Summary: A dwarf, captured from his forest home to become the companion of the beautiful young Infanta of Spain, dies of a broken heart when he sees a mirrored reflection of his own hideousness.
Credits: Producers, Stanley Rubin, Louis Lantz; director, Sobey Martin; screenplay, Oscar Saul; editor, Edward Mann.