The Exhibitor (1954)

MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR January 12, 1955 and waterfronts. The natural beauties of of the country are also to be seen in this work produced and narrated by James A. Fitzpatrick. Musical accompaniment is nlaved by the Oslo^ Philharmonic Or¬ chestra. GOOD. (T14-1). ONE REEL CinemaScope Color Cartoon GRAND CANYONSCOPK Buena Vista — ^Walt Disney — CinemaScope Cartoons. 7m. Technicolor. Donald Duck takes a guided tour of Grand Canyon along with other toiirists and he uses a camera with flashgun attached indiscriminately get¬ ting all kinds of animals riled up vmtil he is chased all over with the canyon suffering and landmarks obliterated. Don¬ ald is forced to try and restore the can¬ yon to its former majesty with pick and shovel. EXCELLENT. Color Cartoons BABY BUGGY BUNNY. Warners— Bugs Bunny Specials. 7m. When Bugs Bunny finds a little boy on his doorstep, he starts acting like a father but what he doesn’t know is that “baby” is really an escaped bank robber and midget who’s wanted by the police. Things move rapidly as the climax occurs. GOOD. (2724). THE CAT CONCERTO. MGM— Gold Medal Reprint Cartoons. 7m. When first reviewed in The Servisection of April, 1947, it was said: “Tom is a concert pianist in this Academy Award winning cartoon, rendering Liszt’s Second Himgarian Rhapsody. His playing disturbs Jerry, the mo\ase, who is asleep inside the baby grand. The ensuing battle has Jerry slamming the covering for the keys down on Tom’s hands, etc., while Tom tries to trap Jerry between the strings, and to sock him with the piano hammers. The finish has Tom exhausted from trying to not miss a note while continuing the battle with Jerry, who gets the upper hand when he starts playing the piano from the inside. As Tom falls across the keyboard in a faint, Jerry takes his bows. Both sound and drawings are well above average. EXCELLENT.” PART TIME PAL. MGM— Gold Medal Reprint Cartoons. 7m. When first re¬ viewed in The Servisection of March, 1947, it was said: “Tom, the cat, is in¬ structed by the cook to make sure that Jeny, the mouse, doesn’t get into the refrigerator; but during a chase the cat winds up in the cider barrel, and emerges drunk with the result that he helps the mouse raid the icebox; Once he sobers up the chase is on again, imtil he accidentaally drinks some bay rum after-shave lotion, and once more is a pal to Jerry. The cook wakes up, and chases Tom over the horizon. GOOD.” POLAR PLAYMATES. Columbia— Color Favorites Reissues. 7m. When first re¬ viewed in The Servisection of May, 1946, it was said: “This introduces a baby pen¬ guin and cub polar bear who steal fish from an eskimo fisher lad as fast as he can catch them. When the chase over the ice flow and snowy wasteland is on, the little boy becomes endangered with a shark, but the penguin and polar bear save him because they not only like the fish he catches for them to steal but they evidently like being chased by him. The characters are cute. FAIR.” (7606). SHEEP AHOY. Warners— Merry Mel¬ odies. 7m. A sheep dog guards his flock from a designing wolf who has ideas about the sheep, with the situation a rough one for the wolf. At the end of the shift another sheep dog takes over the watch while another wolf takes over from his by-now exhausted brother. GOOD^ (2707). Comedy so YOU WANT TO KNOW YOUR RELATIVES. Warners — Joe McDoakes Comdies. 10m. Joe McDoakes, president of the Good-Doers Club, respected and loved by all and ready to help any one, is selected as a surprise guest on a television program which honors worthy members of the community by bringing forth the past, relatives, and friends. Joe is confronted by ex-convict relations, a strip teaser who is his first wife, the fact that he stole money when he was younger, the fact that he was a coward during the war, his elderly and destitute mother and father from the coimty poorhouse, etc. His friends wife and boss walk out on him and he takes off for the North Pole where he starts a chapter of the Good-Doers Club with several eskimos. FAIR. (2402.) Musical LECUONA CUBAN BOYS. Columbia— Thrills Of Music Reissues. 10 ’^^m. When first reviewed in The Servisection of De¬ cember, 1947, it was said: “The Lecuona Cuban Boys are introduced by disc jockey Fred Robbins, and proceed to play and sing three numbers with a South Ameri¬ can beat. Heard are ‘Jack, Jack, Jack,’ ‘Ti Pi Tin,’ and ‘Dark Eyes.’ GOOD.” (7953). A MIRACLE IN MUSIC. Philadelphia Piano Orchestra — American Films. 8m. This artistic short features the Philadel¬ phia Piano Orchestra, 23 girls playing 12 grand pianos, conducted by Carle Kinsley, who arranged the music, which produces a symphonic effect with the use of pianos only. Directed by Vyvan Donner, and produced by Edmund Reek, the music played is “Marriage Of Figaro” Overture; “Halacost For Strings”; “Two Guitars”; and a Russian Gypsy melody. The piano orchestra has played over the Mutual network for the U.S. Govern¬ ment and was heard by short wave by an estimated 100,000,000 people all over the world. It has also made transcontinental tours for seven years. The reel is owned by Philadeelphia Piano Orchestra and dis¬ tributed by American Films. GOOD. STAN KENTON AND ORCHESTRA. Warners — Melody Master Bands Reissues. 10m. When first reviewed in The Servi¬ section of Februa^, 1947, it was said: “Giving a brief history of this musical aggregation, this features vocalist June Christy and the band with other soloists in ‘Kenton Blues’, ‘Down In Texas In The Heart Of San Antone,’ ‘Don’t Blame Me,’ and other numbers, while Jerry Gale, comedy dancer, also does a number. FAIR.” (2804). Novelty A BIT OF THE BEST. Warners — Varie¬ ties. 10m. With tongue in cheek, this reel concentrates on the action of silent days when Rin Tin Tin was a big star, and it shows how he guarded a dam with master Jason Robards. His girl, Virginia Browne Faire, visits with him with her dog, a female. A villain tries to wreck the dam and Robard is tied up, Rin Tin Tin is woimded yet he manages to save Faire when she is almost drowned. All ends well with Robards and Faire reunited, the dam saved, and Rin Tin Tin together with his girl friend. GOOD. (2603). CANDID MICROPHONES. Columbia— Reissues. Series 1, Number 3. 10%m. When first reviewed in The Servisection in March, 1950, it was said: “Allen Funt again utilizes his hidden microphone and camera. He poses as a vastly inquisitive gasoline attendant quizzing a truck driver and his wife, an omnipotent haberdash¬ ery tailor mismeasuring a customer, and a “modern dance” ballet instructor malinstructing an eager novice. GOOD.” (7553). Sports RODEO ROUND-UP. Warners— Sports Parade. 10m. Usual rodeo events are to be seen here with thrills from wild cow milking, steer riding, wild horse race, rodeo clowns, steer buUdogging, etc. FAIR. (2503). y' Color Travel MEXICAN POLICE ON PARADE. MGM — Fitzpatrick Traveltalks Reissues. 9m. When first reviewed in The Servisection of March, 1943, it was said: “The Mexi¬ can Police, of a military nature, perform for the camera, with emphasis on motor¬ cycle stunting, cavalry tricks, and a spe¬ cial marimba band. It is a colorful sub¬ ject, heightened by our interest in another good neighbor. GOOD.” 3900 Servisection 4