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...four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...
...Federal agents (TIME. Dec. 10). At the grisly sight Doris Preisler gasped, gripped her husband's arm, shut her eyes in horror. Hustled home, she suffered a miscarriage, underwent two operations. Last week Sidney & Doris Preisler sued Universal Pictures for $150,000 on the ground that the newsreel had done them that much damage...
When the Hauptmann murder trial opened at Flemington, N. J. press photographers and newsreel cameramen were admitted on Judge Trenchard's condition that no pictures be taken while court was in session. To minimize confusion the five major newsreels-Paramount, Hearst Metrotone, Fox, Pathe, Universal- jointly operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken. The camera, electrically controlled and housed in a soundproof hood, was lodged in the balcony, about 35 ft. from the judge's bench. A microphone was hidden behind an electric fan over the jury...
Last week word buzzed among the newsreel editors in Manhattan that The March of Time proposed to re-enact the Hauptmann trial in its first screen release. Honest denials by The March of Time were met by skeptical snorts. Determined to score a resounding beat, the newsreels sprang their trial scenes on the screen simultaneously with the premiere of The March of Time...
...first release of The March of Time lay nearly a year's practical experimentation and the expenditure of $100,000. Last March TIME'S editors went to work on a plan to compile selections of old shots from film libraries, lead them up to spot newsreel views of the current week. Results were disappointing, largely because in many cases library clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such...