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Official Films Inc. was founded by
Leslie Winik in 1939. The company produce
8mm-16MM
educational, and home movie shorts.
Films for every taste, every
occasion, ideal movie service for home,
school, club, and church. The shorts
featured cartoons, musicals, Westerns,
sports headlines, news events, comedies,
historic and religious subjects, both
silent and sound. The 1948 Official
Films catalog featured over 350 titles.
"Sportbeams" - Champions from every field of sports includes: Monarchs of
The Ring (boxing)Hold 'em Cowboy
(rodeo), Splits, Spares, and Strikes
(bowling), Scrambled Legs (wrestling),
Instructive swimming, golf and
football, Touch Down Thrills of 1948,
Basketball Thrills of 1948, Baseball
All-Star Game of 1948, and World Series
Of 1947.
The "WORLD SERIES Of 1947," Sport Beams film short
No. 24 highlights starts off
with "crowds and notables jam into
Yankee Stadium for first game of the
1947 World Series" (Claire & Babe Ruth
in attendance) Yankee and Dodger
players standing at the steps of the
dugout. Game one; Rookie Jackie
Robinson walks, steals second, and is
thrown out on Reisner's grounder.....
Game six, "DiMaggio robbed of homer by
Gionfriddo's great catch" The final
game (7) "Double play ends series in
Yank victory!"
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