Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another historic spectacle has come to the screen with M.G.M.'s "Clive of India." Ronald Coleman and Loretta Young are the principals. The picture takes Clive from his clerkship in the East India Company through his triumphs as a soldier and statesman to his final downfall...
Suddenly upon the screen was flashed the naked corpse of Public Enemy George ("Baby Face'') Nelson, scarred, cut and bloodied by the bullets of Federal agents (TIME. Dec. 10). At the grisly sight Doris Preisler gasped, gripped her husband's arm, shut her eyes in horror. Hustled home, she suffered a miscarriage, underwent two operations. Last week Sidney & Doris Preisler sued Universal Pictures for $150,000 on the ground that the newsreel had done them that much damage...
Last week word buzzed among the newsreel editors in Manhattan that The March of Time proposed to re-enact the Hauptmann trial in its first screen release. Honest denials by The March of Time were met by skeptical snorts. Determined to score a resounding beat, the newsreels sprang their trial scenes on the screen simultaneously with the premiere of The March of Time...
...Africaine, and employed Explorer Stanley to work for it. He tricked France into recognizing the rights of this company in the Congo and he persuaded the U. S. that a private company had a perfect right to buy territory from the natives. The early work was done behind a screen of humanitarian phrases about suppressing the slave trade and taking the Bible to the Congo, but Leopold, the exploiter, eventually merged. Leopold guarded his health, ate well, drank large quantities of hot water, hated his wife for bearing him daughters, took many mistresses, raised fruit, read the London Times, vied...
...upon this question of profit that Right and Left divide in most nations, and Secretary Wallace and others, when they demand an alignment of New Dealers against the Old Guard, irrespective of party, screen half the truth from public view. Though it adorns its measures with a bold pretence of liberalism, the group in power seems to practice a good many fundamental tenets of reactionary taint...