Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

This month's Film Album is the soundtrack from the classic Walt Disney film Pete's Dragon, released in 1977.

I've heard of money growing on trees, but never shoes!

A young couple (Molly Bee, Ben Cooper) planning to elope get picked up by Woody Watts, a retired train conductor (Edgar Buchanen), and spend the morning in his chartreuse-colored caboose which is his home.

Bob Hope stars as AJ Niles, a world-renowned author of a series of books examining the lifestyle, eating habits, and sex life of the Europeans.

Is that Vivian Vance??

In The Girl Most Likely, Jane Powell stars as Dodie, a young woman who dreams of marrying a millionaire and living "the life."

This is a fun album!

This man talked so fast, it was hard to get a non-blurry image of him - but here he is!

"Dive!

Watch that coffee, stewardess!!

We all know Frankie Avalon and Fabian made beach movies, but who would have guessed that Bobby Vinton "The Polish Prince" made a beach movie?

Most film albums feature a variety of themes from different films and title their album with the key theme, such as "Theme from the VIPS and other Film Hits".... but this album struck me as unique because Ferrante and Teicher decided to focus strictly on…

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit really has no bearing on horse racing but rather covers an event in the equestrian world that has seldom been depicted in the motion pictures - horse jumping.

We have been posting some tricky screenshots the past few months, so here is an easy one for summer... a happy singing gypsy!

There were a number of sweet family films made in the early 1960s and Safe at Home!

"Gadzooks!

Every month I browse the crowdfunding website Kickstarter to see what goodies are in the making by creative individuals and this month I was pleased to see a series of Laurel & Hardy photobooks compiled by two Englishmen, Patrick and Russ.

Melvin Hoover (Donald O'Connor), a photographer's apprentice for Look magazine, wants to impress Judy (Debbie Reynolds), a budding stage actress, and so he claims he is a photographer doing a spread for the magazine.

Gadzooks!

I wonder how many people heard of Henry Jerome & His Orchestra?

"Is this yours, ma'am?"

"He's gonna make it!"

Authors Ken D.

David Lloyd & His London Orchestra wasn't the most popular name in the instrumental field during the mid-century, but this album – Film Hits (1966) – has some great arrangements of popular film themes and it makes one wonder why he didn't become more popu…

Now here's a distinguished looking fellow... and he is obviously watching something or someone in the distance.

Yes, it happens every spring - baseball fever.

Joan Crawford always looked elegant, particularly so in MGM's Torch Song (1953) where she plays Broadway star Jenny Stewart.

We're taking a brief break from the monthly British Pathé series to put the spotlight on another great archive to be found on Youtube: The Rootes Archive.

In the early 1960s a plethora of great "motion picture theme" albums were released and honestly, it is hard to choose one over the other when comparing them.