Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later Comrade Trotsky popped out of hiding long enough to accept $1,000 for a thick, halting and at times unintelligible radio address in English to U. S. citizens, and $5,000 for a similar talk to U. S. sound newsreel cameras. Visibly nervous, Speaker Trotsky was then escorted by police to Copenhagen's Sports Palace where he spoke to 2,500 Danes in German, darting glances about the hall, twitching his hands and seemingly afraid that someone might throw a bomb at any moment...
...sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing his theme?that for miners, gas and war, not each other, are common enemies? but he does it with a photographic vigor that makes Kameradschaft resemble a brilliant newsreel much more than a dramatized tract. The picture has been successful abroad, where it was released last winter. With English subtitles to translate its sparse dialogue it is likely to enjoy a more limited success...
...Commerce, Mo., went the expedition. There Hunter Wright learned that newsreel photographers had withdrawn from the chase, that his wife was on her way from Brentwood to stop the hunt, that a game warden had abducted his 14-year-old son Charles. "The boy and I are going out in the country a piece," said the warden. "By the time we're back maybe Wright will listen to reason...
...William Jennings Bryan spoke there 34 years ago. Some 400 Hoovercarts paraded through the town. Streets were jammed. Goldsboro's police and four State highway patrolmen could not untangle the traffic jam. Filling stations did their best day's business in many a month?selling hay. Angry politicians had newsreel photographers barred, pleaded with Newshawk Roberts to publicize the carts as Depression Chariots. It was too late. Signs on the carts proclaimed: HOOVER GOT MY MULE, THE SPIRIT OF HOOVER. One drawn by two oxen announced: WE'LL GET THERE REGARDLESS OF HOOVER AND THIS AIN'T NO BULL. Goldsboro...
...Columbia Broadcasting Co. wanted "The March of Time" back on the air even at their own expense! We heard our first "March of Time" last night. It was thrilling, it was grand. To Columbia for giving it to us blighted radioites, to TIME for putting on this air newsreel, our thanks...