Word: newsreeler
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Shorn of the Russians, the meet went on, with newsreel cameras grinding from what once was Hitler's private box. The best performance was a 6 ft. 4 3/10 in. high jump by Sergeant Pete Watkins, ex-Texas A & M, who also won the no-meter high hurdles in 15.3 sec. The score: U.S. 94, Britain 43, France...
...Atomic Bomb Thriller Out of Hollywood. It was originally a stock B potboiler about a vague "superbomb," just ready to be picked off the RKO assembly line when news of the atomic bomb was announced. By snipping in a quick scene in a Washington office and pasting on the newsreel clip of the first practice explosion in New Mexico, RKO beats everyone else to the neighborhood houses...
...Captured in Japan Gestapo Colonel Joseph Meisinger, whom Lee identified as the "Brutal Butcher of Warsaw." Colonel Meisinger obligingly signed: "I have surrendered today to Clark Lee, Bob Brumby of Mutual Broadcasting and John A. Bockhorst of News of the Day Newsreel...
Last week a new company, Young America Films Inc., stepped into the still uncrowded field. Its head is energetic Stuart Sheftel, 34-year-old publisher of Young America magazine (circ. 400,000 schoolchildren) and co-founder of a chain of newsreel theaters. Young America is the first filmmaker with the audacity to promise movie courses for every class from kindergarten through high school. It will offer a three-part package: a one-reel short for $25, summing up the course, a "strip film" of pictures and diagrams tied to a popular textbook in the field, and a what...
...Europe's hunger and poverty, had "cordially invited" him down from New York for a talk. The interview, scheduled to last 30 minutes, went on for almost an hour. Smiling, grey-haired Herbert Hoover, 70, looking a little heavier than usual, let a waiting crowd of reporters, newsreel men and photographers guess at what had been discussed. Said the only living ex-President: "The President of the United States has the right to make his own statements...