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Word: newsreel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tale that for 160 years migrating swallows have arrived at the Mission each year on March 19 (St Joseph's Day), flown south again on Oct. 23 (St. John's Day). Last week on March 19, for the first time the swallows' arrival was recorded with newsreel cameras, radio broadcasting equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swallows to Capistrano | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...spite of the fact that Mrs. Love's case was now in the hands of a medical commission, in the seventh day of her self-induced stupor four newsreel cameras were set up in the jail hospital and one of the original psychiatrists had another try at awakening the prisoner. Psychiatrist Marcus stroked her forehead, tickled her mastoids, then murmured into her ear: "I'm coming in. Here I come. I'm knocking. Here I come." He turned to the cameramen. "She will awaken in less than a minute. . . . She is awake! Come, come, Helen! Speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Profound Sulks | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Audience reaction to newsreel shots of the current Hasty Pudding show, "Come Across", was in strong contrast this week. At the University Theatre the spectators were enthusiastic; at the Paramount they were faintly amused; and at the Metropolitan there was a note of hostility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Audiences on Pudding Show | 3/27/1937 | See Source »

Launched in February 1935 by TIME'S Circulation Manager Larsen, who had already put THE MARCH OF TIME on the radio, and Louis de Rochemont, a Wartime naval line officer, later creator of Fox Movietone's "Magic Carpet" and "Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman," the cinema MARCH OF TIME was hailed enthusiastically by cinema critics, dubiously by the industry. Currently, its audience appeal wholly vindicated by its influence on other newsreels as well as by its popularity, the monthly two-reeler, distributed by RKO, is being shown in 7,560 U. S., 1,247 British Isle, 485 Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oscars of 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...late, an outstanding Conning Tower contributor has been Adwriter Al Graham ("Ye Oulde Al Graham"), who wrote for F. P. A. a burlesque weekly newsreel continuity. Mr. Adams' own verses have filled several books. His prose has been divided between sane and salty comment on the current U. S. scene, good-humored correction of misquotations and bad grammar by other journalists, and the weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Conning Tower Down | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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