Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler demanded a German victory in the 1936 Olympic games, and got it. He also demanded a film record of the victory for propaganda purposes, and got more than that. Olympische Spiele, produced by Hitler's favorite moviemaker, redheaded Leni Riefenstahl (and some 600 technicians), turned out to be a magnificent documentary film...
...report, all wrapped up in a film, took the viewers (including many Union stockholders, who got letters well in advance) across oilfields, up to the tops of derricks, through refinery gates and aboard the company's seven-tanker fleet. Now & again the camera veered back into a board room and focused on Union Oil Co. of California's President Reese Hale Taylor. He gave an item-by-item explanation of the company's annual financial report, the first ever televised...
...company still had to dip into reserves to pay for the year's expansion, research and development. The other point was for U.S. industry generally: businessmen must find more effective means of telling the public of their problems, successes, failures. Taylor thought this important enough to broadcast the film to cities where Union Oil has few shareholders, no employees or customers...
Saigon (Paramount), where Alan Ladd turns up with Veronica Lake after his fatiguing operations in China and Calcutta, concerns a lot of Amerasian hugger-mugger over a stray $500,000. During the film, at least three well-paid players die for the purpose of bringing Alan and Veronica together. It seems a shocking waste of life until, doubtless referring to all the money Saigon is sure to make at the box office, Paramount has Veronica explain: "All this happened because it had to happen...
...plodded out of a studio make-up salon. The picture may also appeal to some children; it tells how a horde of anti-mule, glue-factory-minded grownups are foiled by a pro-mule boy (Lon McCallister) and his girl (June Haver). Adult people and horses may resent the film's hee-hawed refrain: that mules are smarter than either of them...