Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unrecognizable. When, for instance, Lana Turner anticipated marrying him, she had all her sheets monogrammed HH; Hughes turned her down with "marry Huntington Hartford." A more sinister Hughes emerged from Film Maker Ron Lyon's experience. He had reckoned without his subject. When Lyon tried to obtain newsreel clips of Hughes, the only ones available were of him smiling and waving. Then the insurance company, doubtless aware of Hughes' litigious nature, insisted that most of the critical remarks be cut. But undaunted, Lyon is now working on a made-for-TV movie biography of another rich person...
...epoch of Hollywood's great, and great looking film comediennes-a group that extended from Carole Lombard and Constance Bennett to Jean Arthur and Lucille Ball-is as extinct as the Movietone newsreel. Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, these are the happy couples who now hit it big at the box office. Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic...
...commercial movies industry. Viewed in juxtaposition, these films convey the political tensions of a decade. United Action Means Victory(1940), a production of the United Auto Workers Film Department, which celebrates the 1939 GM tool and die strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave? (1941), which suggests, conversely, that the threat to jobs and well-being is only temporary...
...Unquiet Death of Jullus and Ethel Rosenberg. An examination of the Rosenberg A-bomb case, using newsreel footage and trial transcripts to explore some of the moral and legal questions involved. Ch. 44, 9 p.m. 1 1/2 hours...
These vignettes are not from some dusty newsreel starring Red Grange or Jim Thorpe. They are examples of the old-fashioned razzle-dazzle that took place on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day as college teams dusted off everything but the Statue of Liberty play in the end-of-season bowl games. Coming right after the rugged but relatively predictable N.F.L. conference playoffs, the college contests showed how much fast fun football can still generate...