Word: newsreelers
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...bright spots of daytime radio. Five days a week, the correspondents report on such everyday trivia as food, women's clothes, theatrical highjinks, soldiers' preferences in souvenirs, street sounds and smells, current gags and reading habits. These news sidelights carry the quiet impact of a newsreel, .the excitement of unvarnished history...
...know that the question of Russia was related to the permanent problem of Egypt's ragged, underfed population. Most of them had never seen a Russian in their lives. But why had they taken to cheering madly whenever Marshal Stalin's picture was thrown on the newsreel screens...
Down below, the crowd had been mouse-quiet, so that it even heard the whirring of the newsreel cameras. Now it burst into polite, gloved applause...
...deepening of dislike for the U.S. Franklin Roosevelt had hopefully said that "the vast majority of the people of Argentina have remained steadfast in their faith in their own free, democratic traditions." But a Buenos Aires audience rose to boo and catcall insults when Hull appeared in a newsreel shot of the Dumbarton Oaks conference...
...first D-day newsreels reached U.S. theaters on D-day plus nine. They are the collective effort of U.S., British and Canadian Army, Navy, Air Force and newsreel cameramen. They have caught some of the finest, most moving, most revealing shots ever made...