Word: newsreel
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...Pointer. So far television has found no way to compete with radio's fast-breaking, flexible news coverage. Except for its dramatic United Nations telecasts, TV has contented itself with scooping the newsreel theaters. In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront. John Cameron Swayze on NBC-TV's Camel News Caravan explains battle positions on his map with the aid of animated planes, tanks and troops...
...week's end the Defense Department had not officially notified the Jones family that Lowell had been wounded. The shot of Lowell on TV raised the question of whether TV and newsreel companies ought to take pictures of wounded U.S. fighters before the men's families are given official notification. To any family, official notification of a casualty is grim business, but accidental notification can be grimmer still...
...unique, different," boasted Chairman of the New York District Ford Dealers Ralph Horgan of his three-hour show. "We begin with a comedy, then comes a cowboy picture. Then, after you pack the kiddies off to bed, you have your sports newsreel and feature film [this week: Major Barbara, a 1941 British-made picture starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller...
...given the picture a startling look of reality. For the setting of his manhunt's climax, he takes imaginative advantage of the stony, rolling wastes of a vast gold-dredging field. His mob scenes crackle with a spontaneous movement and raw vitality usually found only in bang-up newsreel footage...
They were taken to Chinese plays and once saw a newsreel-of a May Day parade in Moscow. When the Communists celebrated a victory they even got native corn whisky. "Wow," said Bender. "We had some bourbon the other night and it tasted like water." But after months of escorted wandering about the village they became hopeless and depressed...