Word: newsreel
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...official attitude is infectious. Navy censors last week denied deleting "horror scenes" from the official films of Tarawa. Newsreel producers had cut them through fear that women might get sick in theaters...
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini appeared in the first convincing evidence of their September reunion in Germany. Three snips of a German newsreel featured: 1) Adolf's onetime handyman, 2) Adolf's handshake, 3) Adolf's hand-dance...
...professional basis was accompanying silent films at a local movie palace. One afternoon they went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...Stalingrad's images are mere syllables, heroic or humble, in the terrific vocabulary of war which motion-picture cameras are now recording. They turn up in any war film, any good newsreel. What is done with them is what counts. Leonid Varlamov, who edited Stalingrad, is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Cinema Art, and works in the great tradition of Eisenstein. He has produced a literal, well-organized film, which lacks the heroic imagination that might have made Stalingrad a memorial adequate to the subject. More damaging to Stalingrad is John Wexler's commentary whereby...
...production, General Motors switched from old to new methods of talking to its workers. Instead of reviewing their role in the war effort, it revues it. It's Only the Beginning (produced by Soundmasters, Inc.) is a ginger-coated pep talk that points a moral with newsreel excerpts, talks shop in swing time, says "Thanks, boys" with dimpled knees like Peggy Moro...