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...commercial movies industry. Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave? (1941), which suggests, conversely, that the threat to jobs and well-being is only temporary...
...Unquiet Death of Jullus and Ethel Rosenberg. An examination of the Rosenberg A-bomb case, using newsreel footage and trial transcripts to explore some of the moral and legal questions involved. Ch. 44, 9 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...
These vignettes are not from some dusty newsreel starring Red Grange or Jim Thorpe. They are examples of the old-fashioned razzle-dazzle that took place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as college teams dusted off everything but the Statue of Liberty play in the end-of-season bowl games. Coming right after the rugged but relatively predictable N.F.L. conference playoffs, the college contests showed how much fast fun football can still generate...
...Worker's Newsreel Number 12 is a 10-minute fragment about the National Hunger March in late 1932. The Ford Massacre shows the results of an actual Detroit strike earlier the same year, while Millions of Us is a 20-minute staged story about strikes...
...reporter, with a gift for getting down on paper the human content of what he sees. Here he is on Franklin Roosevelt, who was paralyzed by polio at 39: "Yet, throughout the twelve years of his presidency, the press, including the inveterate smart alecks among the still and newsreel photographers, respected a convention unlikely to be honored today; they never photographed him in movement. I saw him once being lifted out of his car like a sack of potatoes, and put on his feet, and given two sticks and two helping hands, and his hat stuck on his head...