Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subsidiaries of his comparatively small General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which held the majority of Fox voting stock. Nothing developed to indicate a connection between Mr. Clarke's utility interests (Utilities Power & Light) and the Fox purchase. It was said that Mr. Courtland Smith, a pro-Sheehan Fox executive (Movietone newsreel) was first to interest Mr. Clarke in the deal...
...Plan is ingenious, effective. Three parallel streams of action run through the book, appear in turn, like plaits in a braid:1) Newsreel, 2) The Camera's Eye, 3) the story of one of the five main characters. The Newsreel is a cleverly mixed medley of headlines, scraps of news stories, popular songs. Like clocks striking the hour, each newsreel sets the time; also serves as caption. The Camera's Eye, brief scraps of autobiographical reminiscence, picks out quick scenes, quickly vanished, from these 17 years. The main story tells the lives of five people whose lives gradually...
...Asch has crammed a lot into this staccato, cinematic account-none the less a faithful picture for being jumbled, strident, cacophonous, blaring. Pay Day has this advantage over the newsreel any Manhattanite, any urbanite, performs in every day; it has been edited, cut, captioned by an author-cinemartist. The result is a good movie...