Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with a historical newsreel, flashing back to the Kaiser reviewing goosestepping troops, the Lusitania sinking, etc. Improvement No. 2: a commentator to interrupt the picture at significant moments, ram home obvious points about peace...
They were obviously happy to be back. "These are newsreel men," the Duke told the grinning Duchess. "Sometimes they make us look awful...
...minutes later but 90 minutes later he walked out-first envoy of a major power thus informally to be received, first thus to stay and chat with Franklin Roosevelt on his first diplomatic call. As he opened the front door to face the batteries of newsreel and flashbulb cameramen, a scrawny, tired black cat strolled casually across his path. He stooped and picked it up, while the newsreelmen went into a delighted frenzy.* The cat, counterpart of the one in London, named "Appeasement," which haunts No. 10 Downing St., was instantly dubbed "Crisis...
...Prominently posed with the President for news and newsreel pictures were Franklin D. Jr. & Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, who, with two young friends, were cruising just off Campobello. Gossip columnists took this as renewed notice that the Franklin D. Jrs. are not phphpht as gossiped...
...anti-British banners. After giving the loudest and unfunniest anti-foreign demonstration in Tokyo's history, the leaders, members of the ultranationalist, pro-Axis Black Dragon Society, led the procession to a military shrine. Two hours later the leaders were back to do it all over again for newsreel photographers. When the demonstrators finally dispersed they left a wreath on the Embassy's gate with the inscription: BRITAIN IS DEAD...