Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end the Defense Department had not officially notified the Jones family that Lowell had been wounded. The shot of Lowell on TV raised the question of whether TV and newsreel companies ought to take pictures of wounded U.S. fighters before the men's families are given official notification. To any family, official notification of a casualty is grim business, but accidental notification can be grimmer still...
...unique, different," boasted Chairman of the New York District Ford Dealers Ralph Horgan of his three-hour show. "We begin with a comedy, then comes a cowboy picture. Then, after you pack the kiddies off to bed, you have your sports newsreel and feature film [this week: Major Barbara, a 1941 British-made picture starring Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller...
...given the picture a startling look of reality. For the setting of his manhunt's climax, he takes imaginative advantage of the stony, rolling wastes of a vast gold-dredging field. His mob scenes crackle with a spontaneous movement and raw vitality usually found only in bang-up newsreel footage...
...steady hail of wealth, both real and potential. Smith drew $1,367 in back pay; Bender more than $3,000. They began getting dizzying offers (the Navy estimated that they might split $100,000) from publishers, magazines, radio and television companies. When they walked into a glare of newsreel lights at Pearl Harbor for a press conference, they acted as if they had gone through some 20th Century looking glass and into a world where everybody had gone completely, if delightfully, nuts...
They were taken to Chinese plays and once saw a newsreel-of a May Day parade in Moscow. When the Communists celebrated a victory they even got native corn whisky. "Wow," said Bender. "We had some bourbon the other night and it tasted like water." But after months of escorted wandering about the village they became hopeless and depressed...