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...venture will have a substantial store of resources to draw from: Wolper's own 200-man team plus the TIME-LIFE News Service, reference library and picture collection, and the M.O.T. and Wolper film libraries (the latter includes the complete Paramount Newsreel footage). Important as these libraries will be in supplying history on film, Wolper says that most of the shooting will be fresh-about 90% new, 10% clips...
...featurette "The Wandering Wind" about a chaotic hot-air balloon race across the Catalina Channel. After much colorful preparation, gay music, and chatty reportage we see a stiff wind carry the only female contestant's balloon out to sea through a cotton candy cloud. A drab black and white newsreel, clipped on at the end, shows a rescue boat recovering her drowned body...
...monks' grandstand play was sufficient excuse for other bonzes to hit the streets at the head of supposedly incensed faithful. Nuns "fainted" before newsreel cameras-only to spring nimbly away before tear gas. Old women provided buckets of water in which monks dipped their skirts to wash out their eyes. A monk supposedly "stabbed" himself at a Buddhist school, but when carried out showed no visible wound...
...ambitious documentary understandably bogs down. Struggling to render a superbly organized book in capsule form, it is limited to film available in archives, all of it at least half a century old. The result is too often a barrage of names and statistics, accompanied by endless cycles of grainy newsreel footage: statesmen shake hands, famous field marshals solemnly confer, the 14-in. guns boom and recoil, the tanks rumble, the infantry scatters. And the audience fidgets, uneasily aware that the horrors of war have begun to seem less tragic than tiresome, and that a picture is sometimes less eloquent than...
...screen fills not with stilted Dauguerrotypes but with color shots of Harrow boys as they are today, unchanged from 75 years ago. When Churchill is summoned by the King to form a government in 1940, a Rolls-Royce drives up to Buckingham Palace in another color scene. Even though newsreel clip of the real thing. Churchill himself, as senting what eyewitnesses saw than would a scratchy staged, the scene, thanks to color, comes closer to repre-his paintings show, loved color and was intensely aware...