Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within the flaming tents. Another explanation of the mediocrity of the picture may be that the theatre believes that a dull setting best sets off a jewel, that their vaudeville may better shine beside a poor film. However that may be, the vaudeville is entertaining and the screen fare distinctly second rate...
What. Just as regular newshawks make the events of yesterday live again in print, so The March of Time undertakes to recreate them on the screen by the simple process of going back to the "scene of action and getting the characters to repeat themselves in word and deed...
...workmen will never forget the scene. To York, Pa. and into Fred Perkins' home and battery shop went The March of Time's photoreporters (scriptwriter, director, cameramen). The story was reconstructed and rehearsed just as it originally happened. Floodlights were turned on, cameras cranked. Result: On the screen, The March of Time audiences see & hear Fred Perkins call his workmen together for counsel, hear him tell them he cannot pay more than 25? per hour, see him enter his kitchen after a hard day's work, hear him tell his wife that NRA has cracked down, that...
...newsreels. Therefore to the tiny fishing village of Okitsu went the newscameras of The March of Time, with the result that shots of Prince Saionji, guarded night & day by 40 soldiers, sitting on his flower-bordered porch reading the newspapers, are the first to appear on any U. S. screen. Also new to most U. S. eyes are old shots dug out of Japanese film libraries of Prince Saionji coming & going between his Tokyo home and the Imperial Palace. These and older scenes-Versailles (1919). Washington (1922), Manchuria (1932)-together with new exclusive views of delegates to this winter...
...method of presenting it to the public. Syndicated journalism may have eliminated the silver-tongued reporters of the Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis schools. In their place, modernism has given the talking cinema to journalism. The March of Time is contemporary history on the screen, welcomed by the industry as a new pattern for pointing up new ideas in the treatment of news, the cineman's cinema...