Nathan Cy Braunstein

Movies

Catskill Honeymoon
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A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show replete with singers, dancers, comedians, and impressionists.
Burlesque in Harlem
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A filming of a burlesque act in 1954 Harlem, complete with singers, baggy-pants comics and "exotic" dancers.
Test Tube Babies
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A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered a scandalous choice.
Curse of the Ubangi
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A group of Ubangi women and their chief on an exhibit in 1932.
Underworld
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A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.
Ma and the Auto
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An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocalist Al Shayne. This film features the original song Back Seat Drivers by Loesser & Herscher.
The Old Prospector Talks
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An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. It features the original song Take Me Home to the Mountain by Loesser & Herscher.
Early in the Mornin'
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Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's "Spring Song" is the musical theme throughout, and Al Shayne sings an original song based on Guest's poem.
Bill and I Went Fishing
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An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring vocals by Al Shayne.
Couldn't Live Without You
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An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem. Al Shayne sings the Loesser & Hersher song Don't Grow Any Older.
Boyhood
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An Edgar A. Guest Poetic Gem featuring the song Down the Lane to Yesterday with a vocal by Al Shayne.
The Scout Master
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A poetic Gem from Edgar A. Guest. This film features Al Shayne singing A Real True Pal by Frank Loesser and Lou Herscher.
After the Storm
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Another entry in the Edgar A. Guest's Poetic Gems Series.
The Seventh Wonder Panama
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A Romantic Port O'Call.
The Blonde Captive
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An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.
Heroes All
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Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.