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This week newsreels surrender completely to television. The movie houses in which they are shown have dwindled to less than 2,000 this year from over 10,000 in the late 1940s. While some newsreels rented for as much as $1,000 a week in their heyday, theater managers now pay about $50 or less. The managers find it more profitable to schedule an intermission instead of a newsreel and give patrons a chance to buy popcorn and 200 candy bars...
...five major newsreel companies in business eleven years ago, Warner Bros, (which had bought the name and original 1898 footage of Pioneer Charles Pathe) was the first to go, in 1956. A year later, Paramount News ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") went under; its library, 10 million feet of film dating from 1928, was sold to a TV film distributor. Movietone News (20th Century-Fox) stopped producing newsreels for the U.S. in 1963, though it continues to send them abroad...
Proust Is Possible. The New Cinema has been displayed on U.S. screens recently with astonishing variety and virtuosity. Michelangelo Antonioni parodied the modish artsiness of fashion photography to help create the swinging London mood of Blow-Up. Italy's Gillo Pontecorvo faithfully reproduced the grainy style of newsreel footage to restage The Battle of Algiers-a pictorially harrowing exposition of war as an extension of politics. Czech Director Jiff Menzel leaped from tears to laughter in quick sequence to create the moody turmoil of Closely Watched Trains. The "undoable" film can now be done, as shown by the creditable...
...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French explodes with the power of a bom be plastique...
...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French has the brutal impact of a bombe plastique...