Movies: Edwin C. Hill

A documentary meant to show Americans what had been going on in Germany since Hitler's rise, centered on a fact finding trip by Cornelius Vanderbilt, with newsreel footage of book burnings and such....

Significant events from 1934, in the United States and abroad, are covered in newsreel format....

Edwin C. Hill narrates this industrial film about the production and uses of steel. It was made, unsurprisingly, for the U. S. Steel Corporation, then the world's largest manufacturer of steel....

Newsreel story about the California “Bum Blockade”, a scheme which fell apart after 2 months....

To the accompaniment of pipe organ, Edwin C. Hill narrates the story of one of America's most successful woman composers, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, who is seen in silent film footage. Mrs. Bond is shown, at age 71, playing with her two dogs, walking with f...

Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate privately produced biography of FDR is a cinema and political curiosity. Its lavish praise for the new president who had been in office for less than a mo...