Erville Alderson Movies

Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

Musicians help a woman (Ann Miller) and her friends make some money with a ghost-town hotel.

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!)...

In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Biography of Edgar Allan Poe and the women in his life.

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies...

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

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

A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the...

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her...

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married...

A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.

Dissension arises between cattlemen in Osage County, Texas, and sheepherders who have settled there and use the same watering stream. Mart Dalton,...

Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces...