Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having journeyed nearly a million miles to make some 200 one-reel travelogues of exotic spots since 1928, Traveloguist FitzPatrick's wanderings have been limited by World War II. The Voice will fill his 1941 quota of twelve Talks within the boundaries of the U.S. and Canada, then quit. Last week he and his crew prepared to do North Carolina...
John Grierson took this impression of the U.S. press back to England and put it to work. Documentary films, not newspapers, were his medium. By dramatizing the actual workings of a complicated world, these one-to-three-reel shorts would help make Englishmen better citizens by acquainting them with the tasks of England and the Empire...
...could appropriately offer. But this week Republic was ready to offer another, 1941-style. She is beauteous Frances Gifford, a 22-year-old, blue-eyed brunette, somewhat scratched and bruised from two months of grappling with pythons, scrambling off sacrificial altars, evading avalanches and poison arrows for the 31-reel thriller Jungle Girl...
Except for 90-year-old America, matriarch of U.S. racing yachts, no U.S. racing boat is more beloved by U.S. yachtsmen than the three-masted schooner Atlantic. On any yacht-club veranda, mention of her name unwinds a reel of yarns...
...wide-eyed undergraduate if this film had been a faked plug for the Hitler machine. We could have laughed at the gum-drop exploits of some Nazi Robert Taylor. But the swift, systematic crushing power of the German war machine in action, recorded on a crudely-filmed, undeniably authentic reel, is no stuff for comedy. A firm impression of well-trained might sticks in the mind much longer than fantastic terrorism...