Word: newsreelers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...month Muscovites young & old had jammed October Hall to the doors. They followed the play on giant dummy boards suspended over the flag-decked stage. Generals, admirals and diplomats had taken time off to attend. Overflow crowds heard move-by-move reports over loudspeakers. Reporters and newsreel cameramen packed the front rows. Broadcasters flashed round-by-round accounts to the fighting fronts. Moscow newspapers rushed out extras with the latest standings and scores...
Liveried Vatican attendants blinked and motioned frantically as cameramen, still and newsreel, darted about, crouched on the carpet, "shot" the Pope from every possible angle. Movie cameras whined. Reporters stamped and jostled...
...exciting bits in the film, and sharp ones, the cynically mumbled administration of an oath in court; the horrible kicking around of a lush (Horace MacMahon); the melodramatically cautious entrance of G-men into a hideout which turns out to be empty; the keenly amusing use of a complacent newsreel in which Illinois' Governor Green takes "personal charge" of the search for Touhy; and cold, excellent shots of Stateville inmates listless against its massive prison buildings...
People's Voice. Grace Moore always had the born trouper's instinct for the big way. At her Metropolitan debut the wings were crowded with newsreel cameramen, and Beatrice Lillie and Miriam Hopkins threw violets from the boxes. When a short time afterward, Hollywood beckoned, Grace hired a Pullman, garnished with orchids and banana trees, and went in state. She may not have become the world's greatest soprano, but nobody could accuse her of not acting the part...
...troop transport going into Tarawa: Ladies' Day, with Patsy Kelly, Eddie Albert, Lupe Velez, Max Baer. Newsreel: capsizing of the Normandie, Manpower Boss Paul McNutt addressing the 1942 American Legion convention...