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> Rome, supposedly safe from bombing, is completely blacked out. Few cinemas operate: Italian companies produce very few pictures, and German pictures are unpopular. Puppet shows, performing dogs, old traveling artists have made a comeback. Churches are packed; confessionals are besieged by penitents, and huge religious demonstrations are frequent in towns...
Germans with a few marks to spend trudged to their cinemas last week to get their first official Nazi-eye view of what Americans are like. They saw a bloodcurdling, Grade-B thriller, showing Americans glorying in sin, sadism and corruption. The picture's title: Vom Winde Verweht (Gone...
Meantime Argentina's surpluses piled up implacably: e.g., 80,000,000 bushels of flaxseed compared to last year's already catastrophic 50,000,000. In Buenos Aires, to conserve fuel, neon signs were doused, cinemas closed earlier, corn helped stoke locomotive and power-plant boilers. Autos & trucks were...
This week German civilians went to their cinemas and saw newsreels of winter on the Russian Front. They saw carloads of woolen socks and greatcoats rolling to the front through snow-covered countryside. They saw German sappers building wooden camps frankly labeled Winter Quarters, German tailors fitting fur jackets to...
Unlike its big-time competitors, who counted on the foreign market for some 35% of their gross, Republic, which took its exports as just so much gravy, made Westerns, serials, etc. for some 11,000 small-town U.S. cinemas, little cinemas in large towns. This neglected cheap-picture market netted...