Word: newsreeler
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...bald pate glistening in the hot glare of the klieg lights, New Jersey's ruddy Representative J. (for John) Parnell Thomas squinted through the clutter of newsreel cameras and microphones. Beyond the press tables, 391 spectators filled the big, gloomy caucus room to capacity. Outside, hundreds more strained against a cordon of Capitol Hill policemen...
...Independence, with Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins and his wife aboard, took off from Washington National Airport this week, two hours after a plane loaded with 22 reporters, photographers, radio and newsreel men. In the press plane was one woman: slight, sharp-tongued, fiftyish May Craig, a grandmother and longtime correspondent for Maine's Gannett newspaper chain. Reporter Craig was one of Harry Truman's few worries of the moment...
...many a U.S. citizen, Andrei Gromyko had become almost a U.S. household nuisance. He was the closest visible embodiment of Russia's apocalyptic orneriness. He took walks on Fifth Avenue. He sat in the last row of the Trans-Lux theater, on Madison and 60th, taking in a newsreel. Fred Allen cracked jokes about him. And yet he was like a man without a face...
...Hara and Cornel Wilde join and separate as mechanically as two participants in a Virginia reel, with the much-abused backdrop of horse races and a stately Marlyland homestead. But there is nothing positively unpleasant about the picture: blushing technicolor is made the most of, especially in the newsreel shots of the English coronation, and the photography of the races is really very good...
Film Switch. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. entered the newsreel field by purchasing RKO-Pathe, Inc. for a reported $3,000,000 plus...