Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight for "liberty, truth, and beauty." Doubtless, even the most die-hard pacifist will get a vicarious thrill out of dog-fights in the air and a spectacular bombardment of German battleships at Kiel. "The Lion Has Wings" interests only insofar as it is a carefully elaborated was document; it offers little in the way of a plot. Ralph Richardson in uniform is entirely superfluous; but as far as Merle Oberon in nurse's uniform is concerned, she makes you feel like throwing away your citizenship to get wounded in the fight for the Cause...
...last week the course of political events had brought the two camps of opposites together in one compact Republican army, had clothed them in the same uniforms, issued them the same ammunition. The ammunition was a 33,000-word document laboriously assembled and polished by Glenn Frank, author, educator and political history savant, and some tenscore advisers...
...document's general forthrightness came cleanest in its politically audacious declaration for increased taxes on the middle brackets, if the national income fails to rise swiftly enough. Also dangerous political doctrine was a demand for reductions in high-bracket surtax rates...
Japan's South China Command released an exceedingly important document. Declaring that recent Japanese victories near Nanning in South China were "unprecedented in East Asia, in that they were annihilating operations which resembled those launched by Hannibal at Cannae [v. the Romans, 216 B.C.] and by the Germans against the Russians at Tannenberg in 1914," the proclamation went on to announce that the Wang Ching-wei puppetry was ready to go, China's supply routes from the south were cut, and therefore the Japanese had no desire to extend their occupied areas. "In the future." it concluded...
...from making crude propaganda shorts to making cine-masterpieces. Three great directors came up: Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko. They and others soon produced such silent film classics as Potemkin, The End of St. Petersburg, Ten Days That Shook the World, and one magnificent documentary film, A Shanghai Document. News of these movie marvels began to leak into the outside world, and business-minded Bolsheviks jumped at the chance to make propaganda and money at once. To distribute Soviet pictures in the U. S. they set up a U. S. company, called it Amkino (American Cinema...