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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's name trouble was by no means the first for a Hearst newsreel. In 1918, when his reel was called Hearst-Pathé, publisher Hearst was accused of being pro-German. Producer Hearst quit Pathé, changed the name of his reel to International Newsreel. It became Hearst Metrotone News whe MGM began to distribute it in 1930. Making it doubly hard for cinemaddicts to recognize Hearst Metrotone News in News of the Day currently is the fact that the reel, in addition to a new name, has also, for independent reasons, acquired a new announcer. When...
...same system carries wires for radio broadcasts from the short-wave station WIXAL and for the long-wave stations of the National Broadcasting Company. They also provide the sound pickup for the cameras of the news reel companies...
...Grace 1636, was ask each other, "Are you going to the Harvard tercentenary?" and then we forget about it. Harvard is there. It always has been there. It probably will last for a good many years to come. So let us go to the movies and if the news-reel, in anticipation of this glorious event, shows us a picture of the Yard as it was twenty years ago, we shall say. "Those were the days, my lads!" and that is that...
...economic sanctions and 6,800,000 were willing to impose military sanctions. But the Voice of Time was silenced when it declaimed : "This tremendous new political fact sends England's Prime Minister into speedy consultation with his Cabinet." In all, Censor Wilkinson deleted 61 ft. from the reel. Because he considered that the work of his League of Nations Union had been deliberately minimized to spare the feelings of the Baldwin Cabinet, benign old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood promptly rose to complain: "It seems to me utterly ridiculous! Everything that has happened in the past two months has been...
...documentary films are, they are usually interlarded with propaganda. Typical were the pictures shown along with The Plow That Broke the Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain, respectively glorifying the British Post Office and the social effect of water power...