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...look for technique, you'll find a lot of talent in Newsfront. Vincent Monton's photography is graceful and effective. Switches from color to black-and-white seem random, but Monton does well with both...
NOYCE'S NOSTALGIA is so wide-eyed and enthusiastic, so genuine, that you can't trash it as easily as Grease or Bye Bye Birdie. If you can suspend your understandable desire for a visible plot, and overlook gaping holes in construction, Newsfront may draw you in. If you're a sucker for nostalgia, stay and see it twice--the second ride, when you know where the bumps are, is easier to take...
...films scheduled for American release soon look highly promising, though. One, Philip Noyce's Newsfront, is a humorous and ultimately touching history of a postwar newsreel company slipping into bankruptcy as television eats into its markets. Noyce dares to cast as his hero a round-faced, bespectacled middle-aged man (Bill Hunter), the outfit's taciturn chief cameraman. Slowly a portrait emerges of an ordinary man possessed by extraordinary integrity. In its quiet way the film becomes a glowing tribute to common decency and middle-class values ? Capra without the Capracorn...
Graebner is just going back to the newsfront (to Russia this time) after a six months' hitch in New York giving TIME'S news from England the on-the-spot feel that only a man who knows all the leaders of Britain could give...
From the capital at New Delhi, India is now covered by a full contingent of newly arrived U.S. correspondents from A.P., U.P., I.N.S., CBS and NBC. Thus is created a new U.S. newsfront. Least well covered of all major countries, India was formerly a kind of Dark Continent for U.S. newspaper and wire services. Exception was the occasional flying interview with Gandhi. Until the fall of Singapore, the only U.S. news bureau established in India was TIME...