Word: newsreel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There will be fewer "everybodys," though. As many as 35 of the division's 250 producers have been let go. The Morning News, a producer predicted, will become more like a newsreel, drawing many of its stories from overseas and affiliate bureaus, and will lose at least 20 of its 75 staffers. Stringer, hailed as the savior of CBS News when he took the job last September, wriggles in his role as the terminator. "Right now we're not thinking much about the outcome of the war," he says. "We're mostly thinking of the casualties...
Later, at the indoctrination center, Offred sees her mother again, this time in a newsreel approvingly shown by the authorities: "She's in a group of other women, dressed in the same fashion; she's holding a stick, no, it's part of a banner, the handle. The camera pans up and we see the writing, in paint, on what must have been a bed sheet: TAKE BACK THE NIGHT." Now there are no sleazy districts in Gilead. A woman can walk in public without being whistled at or worse. Offred wonders what her mother, if still alive, thinks about...
...plot--all-American guy shoots the mayor of San Francisco and a gay-activist supervisor, then goes to trial pleading that junk food made him do it--was as farfetched and compelling as that of any paranoiac political thriller. Herewith, reports on three more documentaries that transcend the newsreel...
...scattering of the ashes of a renowned opera star named Edmea Tetua whom they all knew at some point in their lives. The only person present who had no connection with the prima donna is the comical journalist, Orlando (Freddie Jones). Supposedly broadcasting the voyage for a newsreel, Orlando serves as the film's narrator...
WHILE THE FILM BIDS farewell to a fading epoch, it also offers a glimpse of what lies ahead. The snooping newsreel journalist heralds the advent of the mass media, a trademark of the age. In one of the movie's most intriguing scenes, upon request, passengers perform arias for a troop of sweaty, soot-besodden stokers in the ship's bow, auguring the workingman's increasing visibility. And, of course, there...