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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with former Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Nikolai V. Novikov. † Having restored the use of titles in all the branches of government service, Moscow reverted to another good old czarist custom last week by instituting "special forms of clothing," rank insignia and personal titles for officers of financial and banking institutions. Top rank: General State Counselor of Financial Service...
Sometimes British Cinemaster J. Arthur Rank must feel that nobody in the world appreciates a really enterprising man. He might have expected cheers for his latest ambitious project: to put a full-length Technicolor record of this summer's Olympic Games on the world's screens within a bare three weeks of the last event. Instead, the predominant noise was a squawk from other moviemakers, shut out of the Olympics when Rank paid ?25,000 for exclusive film (and television) rights. By last week, however, with Rank's announcement of final arrangements, everyone calmed down...
After the Supermanic. British newsreels will have access to 50 reels of black & white which Rank will shoot alongside the color. Price: ?2,000 per company, plus the loan of some cameramen. U.S. newsreels, as usual, will get their coverage by swapping equal footage on other subjects. British Movietonews executives now feel: "It could be worse. We're satisfied we'll get a fair break." British Paramount still feels bitterly against the Olympic Association for peddling an exclusive in the first place, but thinks Rank's arrangements are "very adequate." The Association, with 25% of its costs...
...first-rate record of the Olympics is concerned, Rank's monopoly of the shooting may be all to the good. Only thus, perhaps, with all cameras under single control, will it be possible to do for the London games what Leni Riefenstahl did for Berlin...
...best and most exhaustive sports record ever put on film. She used 40 to 60 cameras with a fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...