Word: newsreel
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...Shut off that sun," he ordered, pointing to a newsreel floodlight. He asked Lilienthal solicitously: "It bothers you too, doesn...
...additional bother of that kind is de minimis,"-smiled the bald-headed chairman of the AEC. The newsreel men doused their floodliehts. Referring only occasionally to some notes, Lilienthal made his statement...
Hollywood, brooding about its newfangled competitor, television, likes to think of it as a cloud that is still no bigger than a man's hand. Last week the TV cloud was casting a sizable shadow on one of the U.S. screen's hardiest perennials: the newsreel...
...painful fact was that 4,000,000 feet of film still streaming weekly out of five major newsreel companies (Fox-Movietone, Paramount, Warner Pathe, Universal, M-G-M News-of-the-Day) was being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
...that the TV audience was ready for something different from the vaudeville routines offered by the Hooperating leaders (Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan). "TV eats up material so fast," he reasoned, "that the only dependable source is the day-to-day flow of news." Mixing the techniques of newsreel, theater and movies, McCrary developed an ambitious show called Preview, a "magazine of the air," which Philip Morris sponsored. Last month, Preview went...