Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This brief caption, flashed on the screen, was all the warning U. S. cinemagoers had last week before the usually innocuous newsreel plunged them into such a bloodbath of visual horrors as few of them had ever imagined. Shown throughout the U. S. these were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means...
Vogues of 1938 (Walter Wanger) can be chalked up as a minor Hollywood triumph on two counts: 1) it is the most enticing example of Technicolor yet produced; 2) it has apparently found a formula for transforming the fashion show from a boring newsreel short to a full-length revue that both men and women can sit through without squirming. Incidentally it not only glorifies the U. S. girl (its showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that...
...shrewd little Wisconsin Progressive also sent the Senate a report on the Memorial Day massacre in which ten men were fatally shot outside the gates of Republic Steel's South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). After the open hearings in Washington and the showing of the famed Paramount newsreel of the riot, it was obvious whom the La Follette Committee would blame- the Chicago police. Concluded the Committee...
...pictorial indictment of law enforcing agencies," the Paramount newsreel of the Republic Steel massacre in Chicago (TIME, July 12) was shown to ranking Manhattan police officers at a "command performance" by Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine. Said the Commissioner: "We don't want any shooting here...
...hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside in automobiles, killing hundreds of 'hoppers at every turn of a wheel. Against some houses and barns the insects were piled in drifts a yard deep. Newsreel cameramen put their lenses at ground level for close-ups which made the horde look like a fantastic invasion from another planet...