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South Chicago was quiet, but a vivid description of what a newsreel camera saw Mayor Kelly's police do to the picket army at Republic Steel's barrier month ago (see p. 11), provoked fresh cries of "murder" from the Labor camp...
...start of the Memorial Day riot outside Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant, a Paramount newsreel cameraman named Orlando Lippert had his truck parked about 50 ft. from the centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
Biggest Labor scoop so far achieved was by two Paramount newsreel men at the South Chicago riot, and by Paul Y. Anderson, Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who obtained a description of the suppressed film...
...TIME, April 26). This week Paris-Soir was at it again, this time with a still more lurid story of what has become of Pola Negri's reputed predecessor, muscular, mountain-climbing Leni Riefenstahl. During the Olympic Games last year Cinemactress Riefenstahl had complete charge of all official newsreel pictures, was expected to make at least one full-length film. 20 short features out of them. These films have not yet been released...
Radio. Like the newsreel cameras, 28 radio microphones were strung by British Broadcasting Corp. along the seven miles from the Palace to the Abbey and return. Into a central control room at Broadcasting House, through 472 miles of wire and twelve tons of equipment, poured a Babel of sounds-trumpets, cheers, tramping, coughs, prayers, commentaries-to be sifted and unified, put on the world's ether waves. In the Abbey alone were 30 microphones-one of them, supersensitive, was hung high in the vaulted roof over the chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later...