Harry Wismer

Harry Wismer

Born: June 30, 1913
Died: December 4, 1967
in Port Huron, Michigan, USA

Movies for Harry Wismer...

Basque Sports
Title: Basque Sports
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
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 coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured.
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Holland Sailing
Title: Holland Sailing
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 21, 1956
Type: Movie
This Sportscope series entry highlights sailboat races in Holland.
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High Dive Kids
Title: High Dive Kids
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 23, 1956
Type: Movie
In this Sportscope short, children from preschool age through age 14 are shown diving from various heights into a swimming pool. Lissa Bengston, of the Royal Academy of Physical Education in Stockholm, Sweden, supervises the children's activities.
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Big Blue Goose
Title: Big Blue Goose
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 26, 1956
Type: Movie
In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose.
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Canoeman's Holiday
Title: Canoeman's Holiday
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 28, 1956
Type: Movie
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 take such a trip themselves down the St. Croix River, which forms the southern end of the international boundary between New Brunswick and the state of Maine.
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Ice Climbers
Title: Ice Climbers
Character: Narrator
Released: August 31, 1956
Type: Movie
This documentary short shows two unnamed mountain climbers scaling Grossglockner, the tallest mountain in the Austrian Alps.
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Aqua Babes
Title: Aqua Babes
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 3, 1956
Type: Movie
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 Academy of Physical Education, Stockholm, Sweden, believes that at this age, children have no fear of the water and, therefore, can be taught to use their natural abilities to swim.
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Four Minute Fever
Title: Four Minute Fever
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.
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Four Minute Fever
Title: Four Minute Fever
Character: Narrator
Released: June 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.
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Basketball Headliners
Title: Basketball Headliners
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 27, 1956
Type: Movie
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; the semifinal and final games of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament; and the NCAA All-Star game.
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Touchdown Town
Title: Touchdown Town
Character: Commentator
Released: October 19, 1951
Type: Movie
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 stadium seats 20,000 fans, and every new-born baby boy is presented a football on leaving the hospital.
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The Babe Ruth Story
Title: The Babe Ruth Story
Character: Harry Wismer - Sports Announcer
Released: September 16, 1948
Type: Movie
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
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Operation White Tower
Title: Operation White Tower
Character: Narrator
Released: February 6, 1948
Type: Movie
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 record of the first scientific conquest of Mount McKinley, filmed with the cooperation of the Boston Museum of Science. The short is part of the RKO's 'This is America' documentary series.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Harry Wismer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.