Lowell Thomas Movies

An animator is in the process of creating a series of three drawings of prominent historical figures. As the animator goes about his drawings, a...

“Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking...

Charlie, working on a junkjard, always trying to help people in the most impossible ways with junk from his work place, hears from a German...

Advances in chicken and egg farming.

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off...

This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip...

Watson crafted a dazzling visual ballet that stands on its own as an aesthetically rewarding and educationally inspiring tour of the massive Kodak...

Schlitz is a tourist in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Ignoring posted warnings which say that you shouldn't climb Mount Washington (the...

A documentary on railroads doing their daily tasks created by trhe The Milwaukee Railroad

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

Captain Wallace Casewell Jr., chief of police of Panama City, Florida, is the star of Killers of the Sea. Appointing himself protector of all Gulf of...

An airborne documentary following the Shippee-Johnson expedition into the Andes..

Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.

A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse

Hosted by 'Lowell Thomas' this short illustrates the enterprising nature of the American business and its expansion through time.

Filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and,...

A documentary newsreel (in Universal's "Going Places" series) offering an in-depth glimpse into the Universal/Walter Lantz animation studio,...

Inside the electrochemical "brain" of the traffic light.