Production

Gordon Hollingshead

Born — Died

1892-01-08 — 1952-07-08

Place of birth

Garfield, New Jersey, USA

Known for

Production

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Captain Blood poster
7.3

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Captain Blood

1935

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards poster
6.3

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

Okay for Sound poster
6.7

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

Okay for Sound

1946

No artwork available
6.5

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.

So You Want to Play the Horses

1946

Teddy the Rough Rider poster
6.8

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.

Teddy the Rough Rider

1940

Men of the Sky poster
5.8

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Men of the Sky

1942

Film credits

Behind the camera

Captain Blood poster
7.3

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Captain Blood

1935

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards poster
6.3

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel and more, with host Bob Hope.

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1940

Okay for Sound poster
6.7

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

Okay for Sound

1946

No artwork available
6.5

In this outing, Joe loves playing the horses and shows what you can do to improve your odds of winning.

So You Want to Play the Horses

1946

Teddy the Rough Rider poster
6.8

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.

Teddy the Rough Rider

1940

Men of the Sky poster
5.8

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold. An off-screen narrator introduces four of them to us; we see them before the war, during flight training, and in their first assignments as pilots.

Men of the Sky

1942

So You Want to Be a Gambler poster
5.6

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes experiences the pitfalls of gambling.

So You Want to Be a Gambler

1948

Women at War poster
6.8

Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.

Women at War

1943

The Bill of Rights poster
6.5

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.

The Bill of Rights

1939

Smart as a Fox poster
6.0

Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.

Smart as a Fox

1946

Smart as a Fox poster
6.0

Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short, One-Reel.

Smart as a Fox

1946

Wagon Wheels West poster
7.0

In this short western, a U.S. marshal seeks vengeance against the man who killed his father.

Wagon Wheels West

1943

Report from the Front poster
7.3

Documentary short preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Report from the Front

1944

The Making of a Great Motion Picture poster
6.7

Narrated documentary of the making of Anthony Adverse (1936), featuring many clips from the actual film.

The Making of a Great Motion Picture

1936

Beyond the Line of Duty poster
5.9

This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T. Wheless just after the U.S. entry into World War II.

Beyond the Line of Duty

1942

Pony Express Days poster
6.3

In this short, a youthful Buffalo Bill Cody joins the newly-formed Pony Express as a station hand and replaces the regular rider when he is shot.

Pony Express Days

1940

Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight poster
5.3

In this short film, four popular songs, "By the Light of the Silvery Moon", "Moonlight Bay", "In the Evening By the Moonlight", and "Shine on Harvest Moon", about moonlight are presented.

Let's Sing a Song About the Moonlight

1948

Star in the Night poster
7.5

Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.

Star in the Night

1945

No artwork available
6.3

It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.

So You Want to Wear the Pants

1952

The Grass Is Always Greener poster
5.3

Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.

The Grass Is Always Greener

1950

The Screen Director poster
7.0

A behind-the-scenes look at all the responsibilities (and headaches) a director assumes when making a motion picture.

The Screen Director

1951

Hollywood Wonderland poster
6.8

Two singing guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios, with stops at the many musical numbers of films featuring top Warner talent.

Hollywood Wonderland

1947

No artwork available
6.4

The history of a Polish family and its contributions to the war effort throughout American history.

I Am an American

1944

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys poster
5.5

In this short, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys perform popular western musical numbers.

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys

1944

So You're Going to Be a Father poster
5.8

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.

So You're Going to Be a Father

1947

No artwork available
9.0

Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie shown on the screen as Jump-Along Skip-Along McGur

So You Want to Be a Cowboy

1951

The Voice That Thrilled the World poster
6.0

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from early sound pictures.

The Voice That Thrilled the World

1943

My Country 'Tis of Thee poster
5.3

My Country 'Tis of Thee is a 1950 short documentary supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. It is a panoramic view of American history from the coming of the pilgrims all the way through to 1950. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

1950

My Country 'Tis of Thee poster
5.3

My Country 'Tis of Thee is a 1950 short documentary supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. It is a panoramic view of American history from the coming of the pilgrims all the way through to 1950. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.

My Country 'Tis of Thee

1950

The Flag of Humanity poster
7.0

The story of how Clara Barton helped found the American Red Cross.

The Flag of Humanity

1940

No artwork available
5.7

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

So You Want to Be a Plumber

1951

The Romance Of Robert Burns poster
6.8

The 'Farmer Poet' Robert Burns, after a bad romance, pens "Auld Lang Syne" to much fanfare and courts high society at the expense of his blossoming relationship with beautiful Jean Armour. Soon a marriage is arranged for Jean, and Robby must race to her side before she is married off.

The Romance Of Robert Burns

1937

Just a Cute Kid poster
7.0

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but things get worse than expected.

Just a Cute Kid

1940

A Boy and His Dog poster
5.9

11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to constantly wear by his unfeeling owner. When Buck comes through the fence and becomes stuck, Davy removes the collar. Even though the boy tells him to stay in his owner's yard, the dog follows him home.

A Boy and His Dog

1946

No artwork available
6.6

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

So You Want to Be in Pictures

1947

I Won't Play poster
6.4

In this Oscar-winning short film, a Marine, Joe Fingers, on a South Sea island during World War II, tells tales of the influence he's had on various personalities. In the words of one of his buddies, he's either the biggest liar in the world or the most important man in show business.

I Won't Play

1944

The Rear Gunner poster
6.4

Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

The Rear Gunner

1943

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer poster
7.0

The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

1943

So You Want to Be a Detective poster
6.8

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

So You Want to Be a Detective

1948

Three Cheers for the Girls poster
6.6

This short film showcases six production numbers from various Warner Bros. musicals.

Three Cheers for the Girls

1943