Harry Wismer Movies

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose.

Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It...

This Sportscope series entry highlights sailboat races in Holland.

This short subject shows Lissa Bengston teaching a group of three- and four-year-olds how to swim in a pool. Miss Bengston, a member of the Royal...

The owners of the Loon Bay Lodge in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada usually plan fishing and rafting trips for their guests. In this short they...

Massillon, Ohio, known as "Touchdown Town USA," where football is not only a sport is also a civic enterprise and a cult. It high-school football...

In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of...

Brad and Barbara Washburn were filmed by National Geographic and RKO Pictures on their ascent of Mount McKinley in Alaska. The film is a pictorial...

This short shows highlights from several basketball games at two postseason tournaments in 1956. They include the quarterfinal, semifinal, and final...

An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay...

This documentary short shows two unnamed mountain climbers scaling Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps.