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- In this film you will see prize-winners only, magnificent birds, and every one of them in monetary value runs into thousands of dollars. They are all prepared that they will show off to the best advantage. Uncle Hank, from away down in Virginia, has come to the show, and explains the different birds to his three pretty nieces.
- Billy, a diminutive manager of prizefighters, is priming Jim Stone for the heavyweight championship, when Charley Burns discloses that for the past 8 years he has invented a mythical wife and daughter for the benefit of his Aunt Phoebe, who now requests a visit from them. He finally persuades Billy to pose as his daughter, Evangeline, while Miss Brennan, a magazine writer, consents to take the role of his wife. Billy narrowly escapes the ordeal of being put to bed by Miss Bond, Aunt Phoebe's young companion; later, he dons his pink dress and orders his chauffeur to race to New York. At Madison Square Garden, Jim is panic-stricken as Billy fails to show up, but after many humorous incidents, Billy, in a party dress and blonde wig, manages to crash the gate and call instructions to Jim in the ring. Jim wins the bout, and Billy's identity is discovered. Meanwhile, Aunt Phoebe learns from Charley's butler that he has no family; she tracks him to the Garden, and then to a nightclub, where all are happily united.
- Primo Carnera and his sidekick, Little Billy ('Little Billy' Rhodes')rise from obscurity to the front pages and into high society in less than a year. Then the giant of professional prizefighting indulges in some shadow boxing, exercises, bag-punching, rope-skipping and clowning.
- In the first of Paramount's "Headliner" series, narrator Ted Husing travels up and down and around Broadway and other main stem New York City locations, and views the likes of Earl Carroll picking show-girls for hie Varieties; Al Jolson and Jack Benny rehearsing their radio programs; and other celebs, such as Gary Cooper visiting The Big Apple, and Bea Lillie and Sophie Tucker and others caught by the Headliner camera.
- Highlights of the boxing match between featherweight champion Henry Armstrong and welterweight champion Barney Ross, held in 1938 at the Madison Square Garden Bowl in New York.
- An entry in a short-lived series of shorts from Fox Movietone News collectively known as "The World Today." This one finds Movietone's long-time Style and Fashion commentator Vyvyan Donner breaking out of her newsreel duties to follow a couple of show girls in a behind-the-scenes views of NYC's night clubs and the ice show at Madison Square Garden.
- The highlights of the 1948 collegiate basketball that were played in New York City's Madison Square Garden season are reviewed. Featured is the national Olympic championship game in which the Oilers from Bartlesville, OK, beat out Kentucky.
- Clips from outstanding basketball games of the 1949 season are reviewed.
- Although not officially an entry in the Traveltalks series, the same production crew was used for this two-reeler, and the opening credits have the same appearance. The film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Temple Emanuel, the Central Park Zoo, and the Rockefeller Center complex. The film ends in with a visit to a dining room in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra entertains.
- This short tell the success story of the Leslie Bell Singers from Ontario, Canada. The choir appeared on many radio and television stations, both in the U.S. and Canada. Under the tutelage of choir-director Dr. Leslie Bell, the choir voices match professionals in tone, color and blending, although all the members are stenographers and clerks who have their regular jobs to go to every morning, and sing for the pure pleasure of it. The short shows the choir working hard at rehearsal in preparation for an upcoming performance at NYC's Madison Square Garden.
- New York City sportswriter, Bill Corum, drops in at the gymnasium where up-and-coming heavyweight Roland La Starza, whom the gym-rat hanger-ons declare is the best fighter to come along since 'Joe Louis'. And Mr. LaStarza does look good against the gym sparring partners he trains against. About four Years later, Bill Corum is the ringside announcer at Madison Square Garden where 'Roland LaStarza' is fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world against 'Rocky Marciano' (qv.) At the end of the bout, (quote) the best fighter since 'Joe Louis' (unquote) is seen occupying the stool in the loser's corner.
- Features the games of the 1950 NIT (National Invitational Tournament), played in Madison Square Garden when it was still the primary prestige college-basketball tournament. CCNY (City College of New York) was the eventual winner---so sue me, it's in the newspapers---and this short shows game highlights of Kentucky beating Bradley; CCNY over San Francisco; Syracuse outlasting Long Island University and St. John's over Duquense; CCNY beating Bradley in the second round, while Ohio State does the same to Holy Cross, and North Carolina State beats Baylor University. A historical piece of sports history in that it preceded the exposure of most of the New York City teams whose players were taking bribes from NYC gamblers and Mafia-figures to point-shave their games...playing badly enough to win the game by fewer points than the odds-maker had set for them. So, there is a crook or two in this footage that would be exposed later in the biggest scandal to ever hit college basketball.
- This short shows that once the National Hockey League season is over, the players spend their summers in diverse ways; Detroit's Ted Lindsay prefers to go fishing; Montreal's Glen Harmon works in his wife's hat store; Boston's Jack Gelineau sells insurance; and Chicago's Doug Bentley operates his farm.
- A compilation film taken from fight-clips of the International Boxing Club. The film has sports-announcer Bill Corum prefacing and narrating clips from top boxing bouts of the past. Featured is the upset by "Jersey Joe" Walcott over heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles, and "Sugar Ray" Robinson winning over "Rocky" Grazianno. Also shown are fights between "Rocky" Marciano and Rex Layne; Joe Louis and Lee Savold; and Marciano meeting Harry Matthews.
- This short features the October, 1953 Middleweight Title Fight between Britain's "Randy" Turpin---never fighting as Randoplh Turpin, even in his 1951 bout with "Sugar Ray" Robinson---against Honolulu's Carl "Bobo" Olson. Bill Corum was the ringside radio-announcer. Round One was Turpin's highlight round in which he landed a few punches that did no harm to Olson. The latter shuffled around with Britain's pride-and-joy for a few rounds, and then turned aggressor from Round Five onward. Olson knocked Turpin down for a nine-count in Round Ten and, while Turpin fought strongly in rounds 13 and 15, Olson kept the British champion on the ropes and won the decision, and the Middlewight title, from both judges and the referee.
- The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.
- This short shows highlights from several basketball games at two postseason tournaments in 1956. They include the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final games of the National Invitation Tournament; and the semifinal and final games of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament, The NCAA All-Star game also is highlighted.
- Bill Stern visits the Madison Square Garden World Championship Rodeo and relates what he knows about bronco-bustin', calf roping, and bull-doggin'. Gene Autry and his horse Champion are the rodeo's special guest stars, and they do a turn in the arena.
- A special program taped at Madison Square Garden, with the Ice Capades ice rink set up.
- October 17, 1957, the CBS Television Network diverted from its typical format of live dramatic presentations for "Playhouse 90" to cover Michael Todd's gigantic party commemorating the one-year anniversary of the release of his film "Around The World In 80 Days". Todd invited 18-thousand people to the gala in New York City's Madison Square Garden though the number probably was far greater because of party-crashers. Walter Cronkite hosted the coverage with future ABC Sports ace Jim McKay and news veteran Bill Leonard handling the interviewing of numerous celebrity party guests. During the broadcast, Garry Moore hosted occasional comedy vignettes of how Todd came to create his Academy award-winning movie.
- In order to lure a successful burglar into a trap, Casey poses as a wealthy woman with an expensive jewelry collection.
- Sach is hired as the companion for a poodle on an ocean voyage from New York to London. What he doesn't know is that the people who hired him are actually diamond smugglers, and there is a cache of diamonds hidden in the poodle's coat.
- Casey takes a job as a factory file clerk in order to investigate a suspicious fire. Evidence points to a secretary with a history of mental illness, but Casey suspects that an arson ring may be responsible.
- Filmed at Madison Square Gardens and presenting some Ice Capades skating. Songs by Bobby Darin and Frankie Laine. Teresa Brewer did a song and dance with her Terry-Tones of How Could You Believe Me and Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.
- Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
- Black gay prostitute Jason Holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths about life and art.
- The annual exhibition game of the NBA East and West All Stars.
- Naive young Karen wants to help her struggling amateur-filmmaker boyfriend Christopher raise enough money so he can divorce his wife. Meanwhile, jolly psycho prankster Otto stalks the building where Christopher is shooting a low-grade adult movie in order to keep himself afloat.
- After ten years in prison to protect a mafia family, Duke Anderson is released and he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.
- Benefit concert for the Willowbrook Institution for Retarded Children in New York.
- Follows the real lives of the Loud family, a motley group of suburbanites.
- This doc by video pioneers TVTV examines Guru Maharaj Ji, 16-year-old leader of a cult-like new age group, known to his followers as Lord of the Universe. The 1974 gathering at Houston's Astrodome features Rennie Davis and Abbie Hoffman.
- In New York City, a young black boy and Puerto Rican girl fall in love despite objections from each other's families.
- A young man is killed by police after he attempts to kill an assistant district attorney at a courthouse. Kojak learns that the young man was a boyfriend of an ice skater who is in prison for the murder of her mother two years before. But when he tries to look further into the case, he gets pressured to drop it, with the orders ultimately coming from a powerful political operative.
- Kojak and his detectives continue to search for the distraught woman who killed her husband before she also kills herself. Meanwhile, the killers of the man found in the trunk are ordered to find his body to prove to their boss that he is dead, and more killings result. The detectives also continue their search for an armed youth and a prostitute, while a man begs Kojak to keep his son out of getting deeper into trouble.
- An apartment dweller goes on a search-and-destroy mission to kill the ruthless landlords who murdered his father.
- Tally Brown was a classically trained opera and blues singer, and a star of underground films in New York City. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" and concludes with "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide."
- A police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.
- A live concert film documenting the September 1979 "No Nukes" concert at Madison Square Garden. Includes performances by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, The Doobie Brothers and Bruce Springsteen.
- BBC documentary that catches scenes in the famous Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
- The 1984 draft, featuring Michael Jordan as the No. 3 pick and three others who were voted among the league's 50 greatest players, is the subject of the NBA TV original film.
- A cheerful music film with the Austrian pop star Johann Hölzel (better known as Falco), in which he travels around the world.
- A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.
- First WrestleMania on March 31st, 1985 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In the main event, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T battle Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper. Celebrity guests include Muhammad Ali, Billy Martin and Liberace.
- A woman becomes involved with a man she barely knows. Complications develop during their sexual escapades.
- The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.
- Anna, an aging Czech movie star, comes to NYC struggling to establish her career. When she meets a beautiful, young peasant girl, she teaches her the ins and outs of acting, only to have the young girl become a screen star instead.
- A live, four-hour concert special celebrating the 40th anniversary of Atlantic Records. Intercut throughout the show are highlights from earlier performances of rock and roll greats as well as archival footage from the Atlantic vaults.