Word: newsreelers
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When Nazi caissons roll, Nazi pencils, films and microphones roll too. Last week it was announced in Berlin that since the start of the war 82 members of the propaganda company had been killed in action. Breakdown: 29 reporters, 27 technicians and drivers, 15 still photographers, five newsreel photographers, four radio announcers, two cartoonists...
Best sequence in Broadcast is almost straight history. Yellowed newsreel shots of the Dempsey-Willard prize fight are used for the apocryphal ringside broadcast that brings fame and riches to Oakie's cat-whisker station. They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...
...inference was that they had spoken for him and his Administration. They had spoken only 24 hours after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had roused a big Manhattan rally of the America First Committee by declaring that the great, silent majority of the U.S. people, "who have no newspaper, or newsreel, or radio station at their command," were opposed to U.S. participation...
Small, crisp, chirrupy Movie Pioneer Charles Pathé, 78, who started the first newsreel in France in 1909 and in the U.S. in 1910, landed in Manhattan by Clipper from Lisbon, announced that he was through with films. "It is a young man's game," said...
...bound to emerge from this war profoundly altered in shape and spirit. Through them has run for centuries the life and soul of a great people. In Burke's abundant data this life and soul are glimpsed in brief, suggestive fragments, as though in a 700-year newsreel, whose end is yesterday's bomb...