This is a list of movies released up to and including the year 1959 that I know ( because I have watched them) or I believe ( ’cause I’ve read about them but not seen them…yet?) have shots of model ships in them. I will be adding to this list from time to time as my research progresses, so this page is always under construction. Please let me know of any I have might have missed, particularly from European films of which I know very little about and would like to know a great deal more.
The X marks a title I have not yet viewed.
| TITLE | YEAR | RELEASING COMPANY | Model vfx SUPERVISOR | NOT VIEWED |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isle of Lost Ships | 1929 | Warner Bros | X | |
| The Most Dangerous Game | 1932 | RKO | Vernon L Walker | |
| The Devil and the Deep | 1932 | Paramount | ||
| A House Divided | 1932 | Universal | John P Fulton | X |
| King Kong | 1933 | RKO | ||
| China Seas1935 | 1935 | MGM | James Basevi | |
| Dantes Inferno | 1935 | Twentieth Century Fox | Fred Sersen | X |
| Captain Blood | 1935 | Warner Bros | Fred Jackman | |
| Hearts in Bondage | 1936 | Republic Pictures | Bud Thackery | |
| Souls at Sea | 1937 | Paramount | Gordon Jennings | |
| Submarine D-1 | 1937 | Warner Bros | X | |
| Captains Courageous | 1937 | MGM | A Arnold Gillespie | |
| History is made at night | 1937 | United Artists | James Basevi | |
| Spawn of the North | 1938 | Paramount | ||
| Jamaica Inn | 1939 | Paramount | ||
| Q Planes | 1939 | Columbia | ||
| Rulers of the Sea | 1939 | Paramount | X | |
| Swiss Family Robinson | 1940 | RKO | Vernon L Walker | |
| The Sea Hawk | 1940 | Warner Bros | ||
| The Long Voyage Home | 1940 | United Artists | Ray Binger, R T Layton | |
| Women in War | 1940 | Republic Pictures | X | |
| Convoy | 1940 | RKO | ||
| Captain Caution | 1940 | United Artists | X | |
| AllThroughTheNight | 1941 | Warner Bros | Edwin DuPar | |
| This Woman is Mine | 1941 | Universal | John P Fulton | X |
| The Sea Wolf | 1941 | Warner Bros | ||
| That Hamilton Woman | 1941 | United Artists | ||
| AcrossThePacific | 1942 | Warner Bros | Byron Haskin, Willard Van Enger | |
| The Navy Comes Through | 1942 | RKO | X | |
| Mrs Minniver | 1942 | MGM | A Arnold Gillespie | |
| They Were Expendable | 1945 | MGM | A Arnold Gillespie | |
| Stand by for Action | 1942 | MGM | ||
| In Which We Serve | 1942 | United Artists | ||
| Ships with Wings | 1941 | United Artists | ||
| Reap the Wild Wind | 1942 | Paramount | ||
| The Black Swan | 1942 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| So Proudly We Hail | 1943 | Paramount | Gordon Jennings | X |
| Corvette K-225 | 1943 | Universal | ||
| Crash Dive | 1943 | Twentieth Century Fox | Fred Sersen | |
| Action in the North Atlantic | 1943 | Warner Bros | ||
| Destroyer | 1943 | Columbia | ||
| Destination Tokyo | 1943 | Warner Bros | ||
| The Princess and the Pirate | 1944 | RKO | Harry Redmond Senior | X |
| Passage To Marseille | 1944 | Warner Bros | Jack Cosgrove | |
| Lifeboat | 1944 | Twentieth Century Fox | Fred Sersen | |
| Captain Kidd | 1945 | United Artists | ||
| The Spanish Main | 1945 | RKO | ||
| Sinbad the Sailor | 1947 | RKO | ||
| Deep Waters | 1948 | Twentieth Century Fox | Fred Sersen | |
| Wake of the red Witch | 1948 | Republic Pictures | Howard Lydcker, Theodore lydecker | |
| Down to the Sea in Ships | 1949 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Buccaneers Girl | 1950 | Universal | David S Horsley | |
| Captain China | 1950 | Paramount | ||
| Last of the Buccaneers | 1950 | Columbia | X | |
| Fortunes of Captain Blood | 1950 | Columbia | ||
| Adventures of Captain Fabian | 1951 | Republic Pictures | ||
| Anne of the Indies | 1951 | Twentieth Century Fox | Fred Sersen | |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower | 1951 | Warner Bros | ||
| Double Crossbones | 1951 | Universal | ||
| Operation Pacific | 1951 | warner Bros | H.F. Koenekamp | |
| The African Queen | 1951 | United Artists | ||
| Against All flags | 1952 | Universal | David S Horsley | |
| Blackbeard the Pirate | 1952 | RKO | X | |
| Captain Pirate | 1952 | Columbia | ||
| The Crimson Pirate | 1952 | Warner Bros | ||
| Plymouth Adventure | 1952 | MGM | A Arnold Gillespie | |
| Les Miserables | 1952 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Yankee Buccaneer | 1952 | Universal | David S Horsley | |
| Fair Wind to Java | 1953 | Republic Pictures | ||
| City Beneath the Sea | 1953 | Universal | ||
| The Cruel Sea | 1953 | Universal | ||
| Sea of Lost Ships | 1953 | Republic Pictures | X | |
| Botany Bay | 1953 | Paramount | Gordon Jennings | |
| Titanic (1953) | 1953 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Hell and High Water | 1954 | Twentieth Century Fox | ||
| Hell below Zero | 1954 | Columbia | Bill Warrington | |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 1954 | Beuna Vista | ||
| The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Columbia | Lawrence W Butler | |
| Cockleshell Heroes | 1955 | Columbia | ||
| Away All Boats | 1956 | Universal | Clifford Stine | |
| The Battle of the River Plate | 1956 | Rank Organization | ||
| Moby Dick | 1956 | Warner Bros | ||
| The Enemy Below | 1957 | Twentieth Century Fox | L B Abbott | |
| The Buccaneer | 1958 | Paramount | John P Fulton | |
| The Key | 1958 | Columbia | Willis Cook | |
| Run Silent Run Deep | 1958 | United Artists | A Arnold Gillespie | |
| Torpedo Run | 1958 | MGM | ||
| A Night to Remember | 1958 | Rank Organization | ||
| Dunkirk | 1958 | MGM | ||
| Up The Creek | 1958 | |||
| Battle of the Coral sea | 1959 | Columbia | ||
| Ben-Hur | 1959 | MGM | ||
| The Wreck of the Mary Deare | 1959 | MGM | A Arnold Gillespie |