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Word: newsreel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seven scenes from the famed French newsreel which happened to catch a skidding automobile as it sideswiped & killed a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Look Out | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...wavering chirps and trills. It sounded as much like a cricket as like a canary, but that Minnie really sang there was no doubt. After the broadcast a cage was fashioned of glass and cardboard, its bottom strewn with strips of cloth and paper for mousy nesting. Press and newsreel photographers crowded around, snapped perky, self-assured Minnie until midnight. A Chicago hotel matched the Zoo's offer for her. Manager Allred held out for $1,000, hoped to get it from Walt Disney, whose singing mouse escaped few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Singing Mouse | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Masses, crowding Manhattan's No. 1 newsreel theatre, the Embassy in Times Square, behaved as follows at sight on the screen of: Prince Edward (cheers); Mrs. Simpson (cheers) ; her first husband Commander Spencer, U.S.N. (boos); her second and present husband Mr. Simpson (cheers & boos); the Archbishop of Canterbury (BOOS); new Crown Princess Elizabeth (boos); new King George & Queen Elizabeth (boos!); Prime Minister Baldwin (PROLONGED CATCALLS AND BOOS!); King Edward & Mrs. Simpson bathing in the Mediterranean (CHEERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prince Edward | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...fence. S--shows me pictures of finished models on the walls. It takes months for just one. So struck by these that I grab my coat and ear muffs and to the University Museum to see the actual models. On the way out I bump into Pathe cameramen. The newsreel has learned of the Harvard Forest studios as soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...although nothing was paid on RKO's stock. For $4,700,000 in cash and notes, RKO early in 1931 bought the production and distribution facilities of Pathe Exchange, Inc., whose head had been Joseph Patrick Kennedy, later Securities & Exchange Commission chairman. The deal gave RKO a newsreel, enabled it to plunge further into a cinemaking program which proved costly as the depression deepened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: RKO Primer | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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