Word: newsreelers
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...steady hail of wealth, both real and potential. Smith drew $1,367 in back pay; Bender more than $3,000. They began getting dizzying offers (the Navy estimated that they might split $100,000) from publishers, magazines, radio and television companies. When they walked into a glare of newsreel lights at Pearl Harbor for a press conference, they acted as if they had gone through some 20th Century looking glass and into a world where everybody had gone completely, if delightfully, nuts...
...Senate committee room last week, the newsreel floodlights beat down for short intervals on the witness chair, snapped off again as the cameramen waited for another shot. In the floods' full glare, strange specimens came sharply into public view, squirmed uncomfortably in the light, waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...
...fall was that it furnished further proof that Nationalist troops still could not or would not fight effectively. More than 400 miles to the northeast, in Formosa, invasion day for Nationalist China's last citadel seemed closer. As a victory fillip, the Peking radio reported that Russian newsreel cameramen were filming Lin Piao's conquest of Hainan...
...forgotten what happened the first time the Trotters played the Lakers last year. After rolling up a comfortable lead over the Lakers, the Globetrotters had nonchalantly started playing for laughs-passing between their legs, setting up a mock pitcher-catcher act, spinning the ball on their fingertips. A newsreel cameraman had recorded the whole humiliating burlesque and Minneapolis never lived it down. Mikan & Co. wiped out part of the humiliation by beating them later in the season, but the Trotters still led the series, 2 games...
...wartime film to catch the terrible fury of the Pacific fighting. Unfortunately, by intercutting shots of Wayne & company-studio-lighted in uniforms that don't match those of the real invaders-Director Allan Dwan gets a patchwork that suggests a series of trailers intruding on some bang-up newsreel footage...