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Austria's role is puzzling. The graven newsreel image of the Anschluss-the day that Hitler forcibly joined Austria to the Reich- is one of jubilation: jackbooted, goose-stepping infantry welcomed by cascades of flowers and the joyous peal of church bells'. Vienna-born Walter Maass, who specializes in wartime history (The Netherlands at War, Assassination in Vienna), strives to explain the complexities behind that event, and Austria's increasingly reluctant role during the seven years of Nazi rule (1938-45) that followed. Country Without a Name (Austria was absorbed into Germany as an assemblage of Nazi...
...possesses a theatrical theme; many of its skits deal with songwriters' careers and show biz in general. Nevertheless, much of the material treats more Harvard-oriented subjects from cafeteria employees to Lamont Library checkers. In addition, the show promises to teach the audience a foreign language and contains a newsreel that covers thirty years of American history in five minutes. Borowitz characterizes the revue as a musical Monty Python. "It's not sreious," he says seriously. Tonight and tomorrow night, in the Adams JCR; tickets at the door...
DIED. Louis de Rochemont, 79. hard-driving film producer who in 1934 joined with Roy Larsen, then circulation manager of TIME, to create the movie newsreel, The March of Time; after a lengthy illness; in York Harbor, Me. Starting his career at age 14 by filming his neighbors with a homemade camera, de Rochemont worked for Fox Movietone News before designing TIME's pioneering monthly film with its blend of news, dramatic re-enactments of events and controversial social comment, punctuated by a dynamic voice announcing "Time marches on!" After leaving March of Time in 1943 (eight years before...
...films scheduled for American release soon look highly promising, though. One, Philip Noyce's Newsfront, is a humorous and ultimately touching history of a postwar newsreel company slipping into bankruptcy as television eats into its markets. Noyce dares to cast as his hero a round-faced, bespectacled middle-aged man (Bill Hunter), the outfit's taciturn chief cameraman. Slowly a portrait emerges of an ordinary man possessed by extraordinary integrity. In its quiet way the film becomes a glowing tribute to common decency and middle-class values ? Capra without the Capracorn...
...airline and Air Transport Command pilot, will recognize the flying style. What is surprising about this rambunctious autobiography, however, is that although Gann tells a number of good wing-and-prayer yarns, some of his most surprising adventures have had nothing to do with aviation. He has been a newsreel cameraman, soldier, Broadway actor, polo player, farmer, cartoonist, commercial fisherman, deepwater yachtsman, Hollywood talent scout and, of course, a bestselling novelist (The High and the Mighty, Band of Brothers). He wrote, directed and sold a movie while still in high school, talked his way into the Yale Drama School without...