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...Britain, TV sets had been selling at a brisk 1,000 a day in anticipation of next summer's coronation of Elizabeth the Queen. Last week the Duke of Norfolk, who is Earl Marshal, i.e., master of ceremonies, of the coronation arrangements, announced that radio broadcasters, newsreel cameramen and photographers would be allowed to cover the two-hour ceremony in Westminster Abbey. Then he dropped his bombshell: TV will be barred from the scene...
...James Mason (Brutus), John Gielgud (Cassius), Deborah Kerr (Portia), Greer Garson (Calpurnia). The screenplay, reportedly all Shakespeare, contains no "additional dialogue." Says Producer Houseman: "We kept it in black-and-white because there are certain parallels between this play and modern times. People associate dictators with black-and-white newsreel shots of them haranguing the crowds . . . Mussolini on the balcony, that sort of thing. With color, you lose that reality and the show becomes a mere spectacle...
...Navy has opened its film libraries to NBC, and the network has supplemented the film with much material picked out of enemy files. The result is that Victory at Sea tells a tense and complete story. It shows what the wartime newsreel could only guess at: the beaming old ladies hugging Nazi submarine crews as the U-Boat men parade through Berlin; the Japanese pilot bowing to a Shinto Shrine as his carrier heels around into the wind northwest of Pearl Harbor; the American sailors laid out on their stretchers amid the trim officers' cars in that Harbor's parking...
...Films yesterday announced it will show the first part of its newsreel on the college year Tuesday in New Lecture Hall. The newsreel will run before the regularly scheduled showing of "Moby Dick...
...Films members have been at work on the newsreel since the opening of school. The section to be shown Tuesday will include shots of the college registration, freshman registration at Redcliffe, the orientation dance, and the coronation of Miss Radcliffe. The film will run about seven minutes...