Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indians, who could not be expected to understand why St. Gandhi was jailed "during His Majesty's pleasure," then feted at Buckingham Palace, then jailed a second time "during His Majesty's pleasure," were barred last week from beholding the newsreel Gandhi Meets The King...
...stand beside three previous Governors of California in denying executive clemency to the labor agitator who was convicted of bombing ten persons to death during San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day parade.* In a slow firm voice, chubby Governor Rolph read his decision before officials, newsmen and newsreel cameras packed into his office in the Capitol at Sacramento...
...their best shots, newsreels are dependent upon accidentally suitable events, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Otherwise they are too often forced to use cliches like battleship launchings, cherry-blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with...
...policeman last year. His capture was a sensation of the sort on which he thrived. Cornered in a midtown apartment house with his 17-year-old girl friend and another gunman, he held off more than 100 police, armed with tear gas and machine guns, for two hours while newsreel cameras ground away (TIME...
...Tanguay was headliner at the gaudy Metropolitan cinemansion in Boston last week. Two Kinds of Women showed loose living in a Manhattan penthouse (see p. 25). A yodler, a tap dancer and a funnyman did clipped, automatic turns but there was still an "added attraction," sparsely advertised. After the newsreel the curtain went up again, showed a dumpy, henna-haired old lady standing perched on a platform, her immense bosom shining with sequins as the Old Lady hesitated, looked at the words she had written on a paper before her, began a little gingerly to sing the first staccato notes...