Word: newsreel
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Greenville citizens, writing to their news papers, accused President Roosevelt of ruling out Jimmy Byrnes for Vice President because of a rumor that he was once a Catholic. In Georgia theatres last week, for the first time in the memory of man, newsreel shots of a Republican candi date drew loud applause. In Alabama (which missed going Republican by only 7,000 votes in 1928) the State's first Willkie club was formed in Jasper, Speaker William Bankhead's home town, and Willkie's newsreel face was cheered...
...Ramparts We Watch is MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature. Its name, and nothing else, comes from Major George Fielding Eliot's treatise on U. S. defense. In form it is the fullest flowering of two arts: the newsreel and MARCH OF TIME'S five-year-old discovery that people act like people, that the truest recreation of human beings is to be had by picturing people in the roles they play in life...
...work. Joe Kovacs' class has been called, his fatherland has ordered him to arms, and Joe must go. At the Plaza Theatre that night, sitting with his neighbors for the last time, Joe sees the uniformed man with the withered arm jerkily strutting in a newsreel...
Fortnight ago a newsreel company got hold of the German film, decided it was too grisly for public consumption. Army officers saw it, invited Representative Collins to take a look. Each Nazi demonstration of the weakness of flesh against battle wagons convinced Collins that the picture would show Congressmen how mechanization worked, as his words never could. Two days after they had seen the film, Representative Collins, stubborn as Cato, asked for the floor to deliver his favorite speech. This time colleagues filled the Congressional Record with flowery praises and apologies. Representative Collins' text: The wolf does not care...
...passed the first shocked realization that perhaps soon nothing but a shrunken ocean would lie between Adolf Hitler and America. Last fortnight the nation had agreed on the imperative necessity of arming. Last week, as little seemed to come out of Washington but newsreel pep talks, the cry changed to Action-no time now for diddling around, for chitchat, for political guff...