Graham McNamee

Movies

Going Places with Graham McNamee, #66
Going Places With Graham McNamee (1939–1940) is a news series featuring radio broadcaster Graham McNamee as reporter.
Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel Footage
Narrator (Universal Newsreel)
The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.
Norman Alley's Bombing of the U.S.S. Panay
Narrator
Documentary showing the aftermath of the attack by Japanese warplanes on the U.S. Navy gunboat Panay in China in 1937.
Wings in the Dark
Radio Announcer
In his dedicated pursuit of technology that will aid pilots to safely "fly blind" during adverse conditions. aerial innovator Ken Gordon is literally blinded in an accident, but this setback doesn't deter him from his goal.
World's Fair
Narrator
Technicolor tour of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
The Chief
Himself - Radio Announcer and Bandleader
The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.
Krakatoa
Narrator
Krakatoa is a 1933 American Pre-Code short documentary film produced by Joe Rock. The story describes how the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa on the island blew half of the large island into the air that produced a tsunami, and an air wave that was felt seven times around the globe. The eruption also emitted tons of dust that dimmed the sun all over the world for many months. It won the Academy Award in 1934 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).
The Phantom of Crestwood
Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.