Word: newsreeling
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...first off the boat. Dressed in a grey flannel suit, he stepped gingerly down the gangplank, looked about him at the cluttered, smoky, indubitably American landscape of Jersey City. Then he clambered into a black Buick sedan, which took him across the dock where the reporters and newsreel men were waiting. As he grinned, deep lines showed in his face. But he was happy. Nervously fingering his glasses, he stepped up to the newsreel microphone...
...spot he made a brief newsreel speech for Russian home consumption: "We are full of determination to continue to fight hand in hand . . . like comrades and brothers, until the last remnants of the Hitlerite regime are smashed and only remain as a memory to the world and as a warning to future time." Then he held up his ringers in the V salute...
Moscow Strikes Back is also the best newsreel yet made of Russians. For once, the cameramen's equipment is good enough to show Russians as they are, not as they have generally been shown: blurred figures on a scratchy film...
...nightclub entertainers, a nurse, two chippies, two labor leaders, one movie producer, a newsreel cameraman, four draftees...
...provide the shots for United's 70-minute running time, a million feet of newsreel film was culled. Result is a hodgepodge of personalities and panjandrumry, from Woodrow Wilson and the Versailles Conference to Franklin Roosevelt and the U.S. declaration of war against the Axis. The film pulls out all the stops (Hitler, Germany's secret rearmament, Daladier, Chamberlain, Munich, the awesome wreckage of Pearl Harbor, etc.), without quite achieving a tune you can whistle...