Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yahoos. A British stable owner named Frank Coton felt he had a near-Houyhnhnm in his eight-year-old gelding, Black Diamond. One day last week, he led Black Diamond clopping into a Nottingham movie theater (which had been cleared of yahoos); the horse, perspiring heavily, watched as a newsreel of 1952's Grand National Steeplechase was run off twice...
...held the fort in London, and endured like other Londoners. Like theirs, his home was bombed. His children, like theirs, were sent to the country; his relatives, like theirs, died in the line of duty. He shared with his people the sweat and tears of war. A memorable wartime newsreel depicted on one side of the Channel a ranting, raving Hitler, surrounded by tanks and planes, and on the other side, all alone, the quiet figure of the steadfast King...
Getting culture into the Milton Berle show might have daunted even hardier men than NBC's executives. It was accomplished by having Milton go offstage while Vice President Alben Barkley came on, to talk about Abraham Lincoln. Howdy Doody was swung into line with a children's newsreel, and The Aldrich Family contributed its mite by devoting one show to a discussion of the basic types of English sentence structure...
Inserted between Marie du Port and a newsreel is an extremely amusing French burlesque on American "coming attraction" trailers. Entitled The Loves of Franciscan it employs old silent films, trick photography, and punned names for credits. One woman told the the Beacon Hill's manager that she liked the short so much that she didn't want to miss the motion picture, when it arrived...
...years, the MARCH OF TIME successfully pioneered a new movie field: the documentary newsreel. This year, MOT stopped shooting its regular monthly films to concentrate on TV documentaries (TIME, July 16). But the old TIMES were not gone forever. Last month, in two Manhattan theaters, MOT revived seven of its 205 film essays, billed as "The MARCH OF TIME'S History in the Making Series." Last week, encouraged by the box-office returns in Manhattan, MOT decided to reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints...