Word: newsreelers
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...item "She Sees the Pope," concerning Rachel Kollock McDowell, is on the order of a current newsreel of the baptism of colored women who on being dipped go plumb crazy for the time being. This wave of emotionalism illustrated by Miss McDowell is now sweeping reason out of all countries and is unwholesome. Call it reason or emotion. Let us face facts and be reasonable...
...other attractions on the program are more educational than stimulating. A "short" on animal growth is happily offset by an excellent Mickey Mouse, while the newsreel is less stereotyped than usual. This week's program at the Fine Arts is not up to par; but the season is till young, and there is ample time for improvement...
...tennis experts are unanimously agreed. If he does so, he will, for the first time, actually become owner of the Cup which stands on a card table beside the court during the final and which, for the last two years, has merely been handed to him to fondle for newsreel cameramen before watchful U. S. L. T. A. officials restored it to its Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham vault. To take the $500 silver Cup away from Forest Hills, a U. S. champion tennist must win the tournament three times. Since the late William A. Larned, who held the championship seven...
...Great Train Robbery (1903), The Birth of a Nation (1914), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), The Jazz Singer (1927), the newsreel of the sinking Vestris (1928) are classics which help explain how & why the cinema became what it now is. Because the profitable demand for them is soon exhausted, most films, classic or otherwise, are retired after about two years, frequently forgotten, sometimes destroyed. To preserve for students and posterity important moving pictures of the past will be the function of the film library which Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week announced...
...campaign against the Hearst newsreel at Harvard was preceded by similar undertakings at Williams, Princeton, and Amherst. All resulted in the dropping of the newsreel from programs in the local theatres...