Word: factualism
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...future of documentary films has reverted to its prewar prospects [TIME, Jan. 28]; Hollywood, an ordinarily shrewd prognosticator, will be surprised to get the facts tardily. Not only the inception of television film-producing units here, with their immense potentialities for factual and instructional production on film (much of which will become available for those 35,000 nontheatrical projectors which you mention), but the huge backlogs of orders on the books of the manufacturers of 16-millimeter projectors, indicate bigger and happier minnie-movie audiences in the home, church, club group, recreation hall and other 16-millimeter stands...
...civilian distribution of factual movies was fairly begrudging, and public reception was fairly apathetic. Today, there is no longer any patriotic motive for showing documentaries in theaters. The nontheatrical market-some 35,000 projectors in schools, parish houses, union halls, etc.-is still uncertain. Commercial producers hesitate to risk much in a risky medium. Documentary films run the danger of being controlled by sponsors with an ax to grind and little concern for what interests people. (Likeliest sponsors: the Government, private industry, unions, educational institutions.) Too few documentaries have straight theatrical vitality; and too few of those which do have...
...statesmen turning out dope stuff drearily dreamed up. or sentimental human-interest scribblers turning out maudlin stuff about the common soldier, easy to get by the censors. Ernie Pyle was a good example. He did well what he set out to do, but that couldn't be called factual reporting...
...scientists, in coldly factual terms, spelled out the possibilities...
...left to Lord Keynes, who had been the chief British negotiator, to answer critics on both sides of the water. His frank, factual speech made a deep impression. He said that he would regret all his life that the loan was not interest-free, but that America's "immeasurably remote public opinion" made this impossible. Even so, he emphasized the point that no comparable credit had ever before been extended in peacetime. The U.S. conditions, after all, were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued...