Word: newsreeler
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...when we Americans make movies with radical points of view, we aim to reach the masses. Make it so they can understand it, we say. Well, what do they understand? Oh, Grapes of Wrath. Salt of the Earth. On the Waterfront, Catch 22, Or, Hunger: U. S. A. Maybe, Newsreel, Sure, it looks like Hollywood. Sure it looks like CBS. But then Hollywood and CBS reach a lot of people...
...German background and community prestige, the Nazis appear to have tolerated a good deal of unsympathetic behavior from him. He invariably used the old greeting "God be praised" instead of "Heil Hitler." In 1940 he huffed out of a packed Berlin movie house during that famous newsreel in which Hitler jigs over fallen France. Even when he threw a government industrial-site surveyor off his estate, nothing happened...
...Backs.) Felix Greene's China and Inside North Vietnam are good examples of the documentary forms as the dissemination of information. American people have been told so many times that the Huntley-Brinkley Show which they are shot up with every night is "news" that the documentary and newsreel are more effective as opinion-makers than the narrative, which is usually called entertainment. Films such as Z and Battle of Algiers have demonstrated that the line of demarcation between narrative and documentary is not clearly fixed...
...only is it supposed to be their last movie; it is also the only extensive audiovisual record of the way they work together in a recording studio. Rock scholars and Beatles fans will be enthralled with the film. Others may find it only a kind of mildly enjoyable documentary newsreel...
...group watched two films by Boston Newsreel on the Panthers and then heard speeches by Orlando Vaughan and Audrea Jones, members of the Boston Black Panthers...