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...crack cameraman who has cranked for Universal and other companies for 18 years, David Oliver has also been an energetic parlor mimic. When his friends told him he belonged in pictures, he modestly denied it. His unpremeditated debut on the screen took place when Universal editors decided its sweepstakes newsreel needed the shot of a loser as a closing touch. Cameraman Oliver remembered that he held a worthless ticket, volunteered to act the role. It was good enough to call for an Easter encore. Last week, after sizing up audience reaction, Universal decided to make John Q. Dohp a regular...
Jeff Dickson is a suave, dark-haired gentleman of 40 who went to France in 1917 with the 17th U. S. Engineers. Because he had been a newsreel cameraman, he was put to work filming cinemas for the military archives. During the St. Mihiel offensive, he perched his camera on a hill near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with...
With more than 200 posts in colleges throughout the country and a membership of 22,000 the national organization of the VFW has reached far greater proportions than ever was expected. The history and origins of the movement are one of the subjects of the "March of Time" Newsreel appearing later this month...
...rest of the picture belongs to Marie, Emilie, Cecile, Annette and Yvonne Dionne. Their entrance, while the sheriff helps their amazed father warm blankets, quilts, coats to wrap them in, is at once touching and hilarious. The picture sketches their early career through newsreel shots and ends in a grand climax especially made for the picture. This exhibits the Quintuplets singing, tipping over their chairs, groveling on the floor, beating trays with spoons and shouting until their nursery sounds like a backyard with a fox in it. By this time Dr. Luke has received both his hospital and the Order...
...sure to see the newsreel of the homework pother in British schools. Parliament disapproves of it, and one bright little boy suggests that there ought to be more time for football...