Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start of the Memorial Day riot outside Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant, a Paramount newsreel cameraman named Orlando Lippert had his truck parked about 50 ft. from the centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
Even before Senator La Follette grabbed the frightful film, Paramount had decided not to release it on the ground that such an unrelieved record of blood and brutality was liable to touch off more riots. Said Paramount News Editor A. J. Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want...
Biggest Labor scoop so far achieved was by two Paramount newsreel men at the South Chicago riot, and by Paul Y. Anderson, Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who obtained a description of the suppressed film...
Last Train from Madrid (Paramount) is the first commercial film treating of the Spanish Civil War, and is carefully blue-pencilled to exclude all but stock situations which neither Rightist nor Leftist sympathizers could possibly object to. Karen Morley is in love with Gilbert Roland who is in love with the same girl (Dorothy Lamour) as Anthony Quinn...
...Great Gambini (Paramount): Akim Tamiroff as a murderous magician helping the police solve a crime which he has predicted and committed...