Word: newsreel
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Excitement seekers who complain that the newsreel outfits aren't taking advantage of their chance to photograph history as it gallops past, haven't any more kick coming. For what the newsreels haven't done, Hollywood has-in no uncertain manner. "A Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that...
...words seemed to offer the best explanation of what went on when Nye, Clark, Brooks, and company ran head-on into Wendell Willkie and his cotcric of assorted Hollywood executives. The whole show promised to set off more fireworks then a double-feature movie with a Mickey Mouse, newsreel, and Bank Night thrown...
...down. In their place will rise a long, low (four stories) $3,000,000 building which will be the world's largest and swankest bus station. Busses will enter the basement by ramps, unload passengers to escalators running to a first floor complete with waiting rooms, shops, restaurant, newsreel theater, parking garage...
Urgency. Many a draftee, many a Guardsman called to service on the premise that the U.S. needed an Army in a world filled with aggression has now no sense of imminent national danger. (At a Mississippi camp last week uniformed men booed newsreel shots of Franklin Roosevelt and General George Marshall, cheered a thumbnail speech by Isolationist Senator Hiram Johnson...
...flown Flying Fortresses on two good-will trips through South America, commanded a four-engine bombardment group, cracked many a record sitting in the pilot's seat of a B17. More photogenic than the average seamy-faced flying man, he has appeared to advantage in many a newsreel, in thousands of newspaper pictures publicizing the Army flying service. He has also won the D.F.C.. a special Harmon medal and, recently, the trophy of the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs, for many a first-class job of flying...