Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle Ages in the midst of Modern Times-arc lamps, newsreel cameras, a radio microphone hanging high above the chancel, pneumatic tubes to speed copy from the pressbox to the telegraphs downstairs (see p. 39). The crowd that rose in the Abbey to greet their King was aware of all this. Five months of intensive propaganda had told them what this 1937 Coronation was held for: a gorgeous and expensive pageant of the solidarity of the British Empire and the permanence of British institutions in a changing world. Most of them had read many times other details of the procession...
...England and France too-that he means business, II Duce last week stood over the Italian Parliament while his undersecretaries for War, Navy, and Air demanded and got appropriations totaling $38,240,000 more than last year when Italy was still at war. And besides ordering a press and newsreel boycott of Britain's Coronation, II Duce let out two other announcements so timed as to be interpreted at Whitehall as "aggressively anti-British," or at the very least, bold gestures by the southern master of the new Axis: 1) Italy's war games will be held this...
...steward named Kubis courageously ran back into his ship to save the metal money box. He bore it proudly to his officers. But all the bills within had charred to ashes. Also lost was a valuable 340-lb. cargo of which the chief known items were photo-graphs and newsreel films. Of 240 Ib. of mail, only 200 charred letters were saved...
...trained press squared off at the U. S. also. Though Nazi propagandists have been remiss in neglecting the satiric possibilities of Father Divine (see p. 61), they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures of U. S. female wrestlers, headlined it: AMERICAN LADIES...
Last night I watched a newsreel in which Ed. Thorgerson was the sports spokesman. J showed New York's Nazifoe opening the event. His Honor threw a ball down the alley traveled smoothly and squarely down the boards to end in an eminently satisfactory strike...