John Nesbitt Movies

This short shows how two objects led to important discoveries. Children playing with a seesaw inspire French physician Rene Laennec to invent the...

This short film takes a look at the tools and methods used to forecast the weather.

This Passing Parade series short examines the origins of three popular Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

This Best Short Subject Academy Award winning film begins in the spring of 1940, just before the Nazi occupation of the Benelux countries, and ends...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for...

A look at how the weather bureau tries to warn farmers and businessmen about approaching large storms. Although some precautions can be taken to...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a man traces his history by the succession of cars his father owned. [This short appears in its entirety...

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the evolution of the American city, from the initially small farming village, to the...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth...

The "new roadways" of the title refer to various projects, carried out in the USA's research laboratories, that benefit mankind. These include solar...

John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" purports to show how the behavior of mice can be studied in relation to the interaction of school children.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.

The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War...

This dramatized short film describes the historical mystery of France's "man in the iron mask". King Louis XIV imprisoned a man who was never...

This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It...

Narrator John Nesbitt reminisces about his hometown and childhood in this Passing Parade series short.

Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...