* The Gauntlet ( 1951 ), a children's book by English author Ronald Welch

Van Cleef appeared six times between 1951 and 1955 as Burt Tanner on the children's western The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams.

Other children's series of note in the 1950s would be Captain Z-Ro which was broadcast starting in 1951, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, and Flash Gordon ( 1954 TV series ) syndicated in 1954.

Fellow children's author Roger Lancelyn Green first referred to the series as The Chronicles of Narnia, in March 1951, after he had read and discussed with Lewis his recently completed fourth book The Silver Chair, originally entitled Night under Narnia.

He also appeared in other films such as the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) and the 1981 PBS production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and he had a small role in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ( 1968 ) which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming.

* Jack Gantos ( born 1951 ), author of children's books

Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.

His 1951 book of short stories, The Illustrated Man, includes a story called The Veldt, in which a children's nursery can create material objects based on thought.

* 1951 Leo Dillon, adult and children's book illustrator

* David Boyd ( author ) ( born 1951 ), Canadian children's author

Karen Ackerman ( born 1951 ) is an American author of children's books.

* Honor Charlotte Appleton ( 1879 – 1951 ) children's book illustrator

Olson also hosted the Saturday morning children's show Kids and Company on DuMont from September 1951 to June 1952, with co-host Ham Fisher.

His father was a Philadelphia TV personality from 1951 – 1963 who, among many other things, played the Western-show host Chuck Wagon Pete, and hosted the afterschool children's program Uncle Pete Presents the Little Rascals, which showed vintage Little Rascals, Three Stooges comedy shorts and Popeye cartoons.

The market is depicted during Tudor times in Rosemary Sutcliff's 1951 children's historical novel The Armourer's House.

* 1951 The Mousewife, a children's book

* John Wilson ( Canadian writer ) ( born 1951 ), children's writer, winner of the Norma Fleck Award

* Paulette Bourgeois ( born 1951 ), Canadian children's writer

Before his time on Captain Kangaroo, he hosted a local children's TV series called Uncle Lumpy's Cabin, seen weekday mornings on WABC-TV in New York City during the 1951 season.

* Adele C. Howells ( 1886 – 1951 ), fourth general president of the Primary ( children's organization ) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

* The Defender ( novel ), a 1951 children's novel by Nicholas Kalashnikoff

Richard Treat Williams ( born December 1, 1951 ) is a Screen Actors Guild Award – nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television.

* Christopher Evans ( author ) ( born 1951 ), British author of science fiction and children's books

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Reeves, who first appeared as the character in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men, was older than subsequent Superman actors.

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Cahiers du Cinéma (, Notebooks on Cinema ) is an influential French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

Tracks include the 1970s Joe Cocker hit " You Are So Beautiful ", the Beach Boys ' " Disney Girls " and jazz standards such as " My Buddy ", which Day originally sang in her 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The first Japanese film in color was Carmen Comes Home directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and released in 1951.

* 1951 – Jacques Villeret, French film actor ( d. 2005 )

Kodak discontinued the manufacture of nitrate base in 1951, and the industry transitioned entirely to safety film in 1951 in the United States and by 1955 internationally.

M remains a powerful work ; it was remade in 1951 by Joseph Losey, but this version had little impact on audiences, and has become harder to see than the original film.

An American in Paris ( film ) | An American in Paris ( 1951 )

There followed in quick succession two musicals which have secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film, An American in Paris ( 1951 ) and – probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals – Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ).

Frank Sinatra, who once quipped that the only thing he could do better than Marx was sing, made a film with Marx and Jane Russell in 1951 entitled Double Dynamite.

In 1951, he produced-and some believe essentially directed-the science fiction film The Thing from Another World.

Jay Leyda, better known for his work in film, spent more than a decade gathering documents and records for the day by day Melville Log ( 1951 ).

* The " Hunting Trilogy ": Rabbit Fire ( 1951 ), Rabbit Seasoning ( 1952 ), and Duck!

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

* Mister Drake's Duck ( 1951 )

is a Donald Duck comicbook story written and illustrated by Carl Barks and first published in May, 1951.

* Mister Drake's Duck ( 1951 )

Duck and Cover is a civil defense film ( sometimes also characterized as a social guidance film or propaganda ) produced in 1951 ( but first shown publicly in January 1952 ) by the United States federal government's civil defense branch shortly after the Soviet Union began nuclear testing.

* Mister Drake's Duck ( 1951 )

At one point in 1951, some issues of Four Color were double-numbered, reflecting the issuances for particular characters ; thus issues 318 and 328, featuring Donald Duck, carried the notation " nos.

Later, the street was the subject of a comic song heard in a 1951 Warner Bros. " Daffy Duck " cartoon called " Drip-Along Daffy ".

* Mister Drake's Duck ( 1951 )

Anthony Rizzo ( October 11, 1918, Italy – February 12, 2004, Los Angeles, California, USA ) was a film writer and director, best known for his Civil Defense short documentary film Duck and Cover ( 1951 ).