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Once afoul of British ration laws for trying to get a fur coat from the U.S., she thought she might bag one this trip, "if I have any gentlemen friends." Newsreel men handed her a canned speech to read. "That's the worst speech I ever heard," said she. Cameramen took closeups. "We never did this to Mrs. Roosevelt," the Viscountess protested. "No other country in the world behaves like America!" At interview's end she moved off, cried loudly as she departed, laughing: "Goodbye, you horrors-you horrors...
This gave Chicago's Barnet Hodes an opening; he claimed that Chicago's libraries had 125,000 more books than Boston's had. Chicago, like the other delegations, had a newsreel to show its beauties. As the commentator said "This is the sort of thing worthy of study in Chicago," the reel stuck, and a bevy of fan dancers on ice skates froze on the screen, grinning toothily at the statesmen...
...sides, like a symphony orchestra around its conductor, scribbled amid a litter of handouts, maps, yellow copy paper, overflowing ashtrays. Under the tables their shifting feet smudged their piled-up coats and hats. Off to one side were 18 radio reporters sitting along the wall; behind them were the newsreel boys, their cameras whirring monotonously...
...moment, Hess stared at Hess. The man in the newsreel, young and strapping, screamed "Sieg Heil!" The real man, haggard and old, sank back into his seat. Psychiatrists watched him closely...
When Producer Louis de Rochemont, a veteran of 22 years of newsreel and documentary photography (THE MARCH OF TIME), set out late last year to make a movie about his favorite subject, the FBI -which he fondly regards with all the hero worship of a small boy-he plunked his idea right on Director Hoover's desk. For their story, De Rochemont and Writer John Monks Jr. pored over scores of FBI case histories and pieced together a selection of the Bureau's better experiences...