Word: newsreelers
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...have very bad English," the ambassador began. He smiled pleasantly. A newsreel man assured him that his English was better than Molotov's. If that flattered him, he did not show it. But he managed to get out that he had been Soviet ambassador to China from 1939 to 1944, that his wife, Ekaterina, would join him in January...
...undeniably artful photographs seemed worlds apart from the museum's paintings. They were almost head-on views of junkyards, stray people, tenements, hill farms and city streets, done with an antiseptic brilliance of black, white and grey. Chill as glass, they had no more charm than a newsreel, but the quiet clarity of each print gave their commonplace subject matter the impact and beauty of things seen for the first time...
Prince Philip and his bride were hardly back in Buckingham Palace before a plane loaded with BBC newsreels of their wedding was on its way to the U.S. Next day the reels were on New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Schenectady and Baltimore television screens. That was four days better than the standard newsreel companies could...
Television newsreelers have several mechanical advantages. By reversing the negative electronically the picture appears as a positive print, and can be televised almost as soon as it arrive-in a studio. With a single print, a television network can reach its full audience; the competitor newsreel company must make prints for each of its subscribing theaters. Background music and sound-track commentary consume time and money in newsreel production; with television, a glib announcer and a handful of records can go directly...
Television newsreel scoops will not make much difference until many thousands of additional sets are in operation, but the demand is growing. One televiser was happy to overhear a newsreel theater patron complain: "Why, that's old stuff, I saw it last week on television...