Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday nights, the Northwestern team sees a movie of its most recent game. On Tuesday nights, it sees a newsreel of its next opponent. Most spectacular ball carriers this year have been Steve Toth and Don Heap, It was Toth who made the touchdown that broke Minnesota's string of 21 victories three weeks ago (TIME, Nov. 9). Heap is a junior who, between high school and college, spent three years earning enough money for his tuition and gaining enough weight to be sure of making the varsity football team the first year he tried for it. Last week...
Last week's name trouble was by no means the first for a Hearst newsreel. In 1918, when his reel was called Hearst-Pathé, publisher Hearst was accused of being pro-German. Producer Hearst quit Pathé, changed the name of his reel to International Newsreel. It became Hearst Metrotone News whe MGM began to distribute it in 1930. Making it doubly hard for cinemaddicts to recognize Hearst Metrotone News in News of the Day currently is the fact that the reel, in addition to a new name, has also, for independent reasons, acquired a new announcer. When...
When a Labor M. P. asked whether, "in view of the great public interest," a newsreel could be made of Parliament in action, the Prime Minister growled...
...doing 65 m.p.h. Her chauffeur was the King's own, and Ipswich police, manifesting no desire to write him a ticket for speeding, scrambled to throw open the courthouse gates for the Buick to dash in. With their truncheons they smashed two press cameras. Previously all newsreel crews had been sent completely out of Ipswich...
...printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential favorite, hissing his opponent...