Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rizzardis, aerialists extraordinary . . . Welsh & Kaplan, divertissement . . . Maybella de la Maye, operatic star . . . the Smfth Brothers & Their Eight Musical .Cough Drops . . . Frenzo, master of legerdemain . . . newsreel. Roseribergs from Queens . . . Callahans from Brooklyn . . . Schmidts from Yorkville . . . Whites from Harlem . . . Rosenbergs, Callahans, Schmidts from the Bronx...
...combatants. It was hard to remember which pins stood for which side or what the irregular graph of a strategy meant in terms of life and death. In this picture, which UFA began to make in 1915, the lines of the diagrams move themselves, like animated cartoons. Neither a newsreel nor a story, it is a history of the War, seen from the German side, but impartially; most of the battle scenes were taken in battle and the captions are excerpts from official reports. Moving maps give unity to shifting offensives, tiny cavalry in the huge honeycomb of the Carpathians...
...Somme, made with the co-operation of the British Army Council, is a war picture without plot, a rapid newsreel of the fighting that went on in the mud and rain in 1916 and 1917. Unlike those recent films of battle in which the courage and good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
More interesting than her picture, Marion Davies is still the smartest of the four daughters of Bernard Douras, Brooklyn (N. Y.) judge. She was educated in a Sacred Heart Convent and the Ziegfeld Follies, drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give...
...believed, originated by him, Director Eisenstein shows kaleidoscopic guns firing, statues falling, bottles breaking in superimposed shots the rapidity of which strains the eyes and makes them hard to watch. Hollywood directors, advised by intellectuals to learn their Eisenstein, would profit little from seeing, as they will not, this newsreel of the Russian revolution which lacks the most valuable feature that a newsreel can have-impartiality...