Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...
...four minutes to two by the Cabinet room clock as President Roosevelt sat down at the head of the long mahogany table, flicked a red ribbon from a rolled document and began to read the bill for the manufacture and sale of 3.2% beer. A forest of tripoded newsreel cameras and lights hemmed him in against a heavy window drapery. His gold signet ring glinted in the artificial glare as he fingered the crisp white pages before him. At a photographer's command he picked up a pen and wrote Frank. With another he added...
Into Mussolini Speaks, an anthology of Italian newsreel shots released in the U. S. last week as a feature picture, has gone much extremely dim, blurry photography, but Il Duce comes to life, especially his face. Even Italians who sang Fascist anthems and cheered the preview in Manhattan last week, rocked with mirth at the Premier's rubbery platform face...
Taking more than one leaf from the same notebook which Authors Dos Passos and Alfred Doblin used, which Maestro James Joyce used before them, Halper has neatly stitched together a story contemporary, kaleidoscopically eye-witnessing as a newsreel, but more dramatically edited than most cinema. Union Square's action is more continuous but less comprehensive than Dos Passos' more ambitious book. With a half-dozen main characters, a score of walk-on parts, the story gives an animated, life-like cross-section of teeming Manhattan...
...always front-page news for Toledo's Press. When King Albert of the Belgians visited Toledo, Mr. Willys provided shining Willys-Knights for the parade. A reporter in an Oldsmobile tried to join the procession, was run to the curb by a policeman before he reached the newsreel photographers...