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Winston Churchill was hired to write the script. Every newsreel library in the Empire was ransacked. When The Story of the Reign of His Majesty the King was ready last week it had cost $500,000- cheap enough for a film that was to stir loyal hearts in every part of the Empire during His Majesty's silver jubilee next spring...
...cinema theatres throughout the land this week (Feb. 1) the editors of TIME present The March of Time, a new form of pictorial reporting. Related to the newsreel as a newsmagazine is related to a newspaper, The March of Time is a recapture of memorable scenes from the day's news. Edited, like TIME, in the historical spirit, it runs for 20 minutes, deals with half a dozen different subjects...
...Washington, NRA will go on trial before the U. S. Supreme Court because a smalltime battery manufacturer in York, Pa. could not pay the 40? per hour minimum wage required by his code. No newsreel camera was on the spot when Fred Perkins was visited by the Federal marshal, told he was violating the law, but he and his wife and his workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just...
Thank heaven there is to be an intelligently edited newsreel...
...most of the White House assistants, is an ex-newshawk. During the War he helped handle Navy press relations, afterwards worked for Roosevelt in the 1920 campaign. Later he mooned around the Navy press room, tried to peddle freelance stories on the plight of the fighting fleet. From Pathe Newsreel Louis Howe got him back for the pre-convention campaign in 1932. A genial fellow whose hollow cheeks and sunken eyes belie his good disposition, Marvin Mclntyre made himself valuable as Franklin Roosevelt's contact, first, with the Press, later with politicians and bigwigs. He lingers perpetually in the Presidential...