Word: newsreel
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...hopeless isolation of the period is masterfully captured in newsreel footage of a bankrupt Dust Bowl farmer surveying his parched land and saying, "I'd like to see rain, I mean, I have seen it. I'd like to have my son--he's eight years old--see it." As a counterpoint to this hopelessness a robust Joe Louis is shown lustily chopping wood in his training camp and making sanguine predictions about his upcoming bout with Max Schmelling...
...Queen of England is miffed at this movie. Her Majesty appears in a pivotal supporting role, opening Parliament, while an Irishman named Hennessy (Rod Steiger) is on the premises, about to blow the whole place skyward. The Queen's appearance is constructed entirely out of newsreel footage of the actual event, which the cagey film makers have intercut with their elaborate fictions. This has been accomplished so deftly, however, that the Queen appears to look up sharply as Steiger and Hollis of the Yard (Richard Johnson) struggle off to her left. Now, times are hard, and there is continuing...
Shortly before 9 p.m. on June 19, 1953, Columnist Bob Considine stepped in front of newsreel cameras set up outside the walls of Sing Sing Prison to give his eyewitness account of the executions of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. The old pro obliged his audience with a few grisly details and a note of piety. "Ethel Rosenberg," he said, "met her maker and will have a lot of explaining...
...unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware of Hughes' litigious nature, insisted that most of the critical remarks be cut. But undaunted, Lyon is now working on a made-for-TV movie biography of another rich person...
...epoch of Hollywood's great, and great looking film comediennes-a group that extended from Carole Lombard and Constance Bennett to Jean Arthur and Lucille Ball-is as extinct as the Movietone newsreel. Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, these are the happy couples who now hit it big at the box office. Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic...