Word: newsreeler
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...waved this aside. "Let them take their film and shelve it for history. There are many more interesting stories that can be filmed. Floods, riots, fires, human interest--all these events don't just depend on being up-to-date for their appeal. A newsreel can easily be fascinating. Instead, most are only boring...
...sure the Universal newsreel now at the Beacon Hill would please my friend. Although it started in the conventional manner, showing John Foster Dulles signing the Japanese treaty, it quickly switched to Japan itself. There, hundreds of Japanese students were rioting in protest against this same peace treaty. Blood and police billies flew through the air, as the militia tried to keep the riot in check...
...newsreel quickly changed its pace. This time it was India, as the cameras covered a beauty contest to select the national entry in the Miss Universe contest at San Francisco. The lovely Indian girls, dressed in elaborate saris were a welcome change from the usual Atlantic City pageant...
...newsreel goes...
...energetic newspaper-owned TV news setups in the U.S., including fourteen staffers and camera crews. It thinks $5,470 a week for TV news-gathering is well spent. One of its best local stunts: when a three-year-old girl disappeared recently, the station assigned four cameras (TV and newsreel) to the hunt. Three followed the search party and another, set up in the girl's home, was able to catch her reunion with her mother...