Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court. Jittery and angry, Witness Kuhn got off to a bad start. When a spectator murmured an epithet, Fritz Kuhn roared: "Stand back! I'll ask the chairman to throw you out if you make remarks about me!" Chairman Dies threw out no spectators, but did ask newsreel cameramen to turn off their lights "because they bother Mr. Kuhn...
Last year, when King George VI visited a boys' camp in England, the boys entertained him by singing it with gestures, and (before a battery of newsreel Cameras) the King himself joined in with a right royal will (see cut). Weeks later the newsreel reached a small cinema theatre at Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. In the audience was a jumpy, pink-eyed little Czech composer named Jaromir Weinberger, world-famed for his lilting opera Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer. Composer Weinberger was much struck. Said he: "I liked this whole scene very much and I said to myself...
...HUNDREDTH YEAR-Philip Guedalla-Doubleday, Doran ($3). The fateful year of 1936 (hundredth since Victoria's accession), when Hitler militarized the Rhineland, Italy conquered Abyssinia, Franco started the Spanish Civil War, Roosevelt was reflected and Edward Windsor left the throne of England, presented in smooth, newsreel episodes by the smooth author of The Hundred Years (TIME...
...Fight for Peace (newsreel; TIME...
When the revamped picture opened last week in San Francisco, result of such tinkering was almost as complete a disaster for All Quiet on the Western Front as even Nazis could have wished. Hard to spot were any restored cuts. The historical newsreel was a separate show. The strident commentator, harshly sounding off in the worst tradition of Russian soapbox films, demolished each of the picture's high-voltage, moving climaxes as efficiently as if a 12-inch shell had ripped through the screen...