Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group of three newsreels manufactured and released by Eugene W. Castle for sale in department stores throughout the country...
First issue of News Parade was a film on the Hindenburg disaster which went on sale three weeks ago. Second was the Coronation of George VI. Third in the series, released last week, was a life story of the Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film...
...longtime producer of industrial shorts for advertising, Producer Castle last made major cinema news in 1931 when he successfully campaigned to prevent major companies from releasing advertising shorts as pure entertainment. Most major cinema producers, well aware of the possibilities of the small projector market, are wary of it as competition with theatres. News Parade, edited, cut and titled by Producer Castle, consists of reductions of full-sized newsreels which Producer Castle acquires in return for royalties on News Parade sales, after exhibition in theatres has made them worthless to their makers. Precisely what companies give News Parade its material...
...their next job there was a fight. Wilcox (Joseph Sawyer), a lineman jealous of Red's prestige, tried to loosen the line that was dropping Red. Slim got to Wilcox in time. He and Wilcox were both hurt. When Slim wrote the news to Cally, she came out to nurse him. She fixed it for him to have a job in maintenance, where he could stay put and raise a family. Once more Slim thought he'd go with Red, so Cally called off their wedding. Climax in the contest between love for Cally...
...Bachelor James Clark McReynolds, last week stirred from his Washington apartment to attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...