Word: newsreel
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Died. Léon Gaumont, 82, French cinema pioneer, who synchronized film and sound as early as 1903, experimented with the first color films, showed the way to newsreel making; in Sainte Maxime, France...
...opening of Lula Cardoso Ayres' one-man show went off like a high-society ball, with all of Rio's granfinos present and newsreel cameras clicking. More important, handsome Lula Ayres was clearly the best Brazilian painter to come along since Candido Portinari. He had the sophistication of Rio's salons and the simplicity of the backwoods...
...this liberty, both the British and the Indians must work together from the ground to achieve some social foundation on which to build a union of the Indian peoples. Education, agricultural reform, social security, and systems of public health must be strengthened beyond their present token status as newsreel scenes of British paternalism. Freedom, more than a word, is more than a constitution and a congress...
...Fabrizi) plays the major role, sheltering and aiding underground agents until he is betrayed by a local girl to the Nazis and put before a firing squad. The Nazis are routine screen villains. The priest, the girl, the principal partisans and a dozen minor characters play their parts with newsreel-like simplicity and telling realism...
Whether World War II coverage was good or not, there was plenty of it: the Army & Navy accredited some 2,000 war correspondents. Last week the Navy had already heard from 3,500 press, radio and newsreel people who want to cover the atomic bomb tests in the Pacific (TIME, Feb. 11). Said the Navy sternly: there will be room for not more than 150 on the press ship. Safe guess: no women allowed...