Application to grab text from folder names?

I doubt there is software for this - if there isn't there needs to be - it'd make a killing!
I'm looking for an app that can grab texts from folder names...what i mean is let's say
on my desktop I have a folder titled "Movies", and inside that folder are hundreds of folders -
each folder containing a movie. Each folder is a title of a movie. I would like to somehow select
all of these folders and grab the text off of each folder - to catalogue my movies into a simple text file.
I know I could open a word doc or txt doc and go one-by-one but i have thousands of movies and this
would take forever. Please tell me there is an application that can save me some time with this.
thanks.

Niel - you rule!
i couldn't get what you wrote to work - i tried inputting different paths, etc. i'm probably doing something wrong -
but i used this script
tell application "Finder"
get name of folders of folder ("/Users/macbookpro/Desktop/movies" as POSIX file)
end tell
and it worked. thanks again.

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I've got a folder. In the folder are 100 folders with the names "untitled folder xxx" In side I've got files that are all named and numbered.
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Similar to this discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2632228, I would like to reorder a large number of folder names. Currently, they are set up as follows:
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<img src="img/example-1.jpg" width="128" height="160" alt="example-1.jpg" />
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