Lowell Thomas Movies

With Western Electric Vacuum Tubes in the starring roles, this film tells the fascinating story of tube development from the first crude bulbs of...

“Where are tomorrow’s opportunities? What’s ahead in America for you and your children?” asks narrator Lowell Thomas. Looking...

A documentary on railroads doing their daily tasks created by trhe The Milwaukee Railroad

The film discusses the fascinating world of color perception, particularly from the perspective of various creatures, including fish and lobsters. It...

Prominent scientists Dr. William Beebe and Otis Barton, using the Bathyspere invented by Barton, descend several thousand feet to the ocean floor off...

Advances in chicken and egg farming.

Biography follows the life of famed woman pilot Amelia Earhart, including her marriage to a famous publisher and her disappearance during a flight in...

A nostalgic and compelling look into the legendary three camera, three projector process that revolutionized motion pictures and led the industry...

A look at what goes on in China.

The Legend of Lasseter is a 1979 Australian documentary about Lasseter's Reef. Lasseter's Reef refers to the purported discovery, announced by Harold...

Filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and,...

Shot in gorgeous Cinecolor, an early subtractive two-color process, Lost Lake follows the famed Jesuit priest, geologist, and explorer Father Bernard...

Made in 1937, HIGHWAY MANIA is an early driver safety film narrated by Lowell Thomas. It features stunning images of auto accidents, including some...

This 1946 entry in the "Movietone Adventures" series of shorts was in Technicolor when originally released. Narrated by Lowell Thomas, it is a trip...

Lowell Thomas narrates a look at progress in American history.

Tour of an auto parts and accessories factory climaxing with a stop-motion product parade.

Captain Wallace Casewell Jr., chief of police of Panama City, Florida, is the star of Killers of the Sea. Appointing himself protector of all Gulf of...

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential...

An airborne documentary following the Shippee-Johnson expedition into the Andes..

Inside the electrochemical "brain" of the traffic light.