Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial last week, the pair again admitted their guilt, but insisted that they had bilked only citizens of Britain and the U. S., fair game to any Frenchman. Furthermore, they claimed that the particular picture for which they were being tried was a genuine Millet...
That Drood was murdered by Jasper is the theory projected in most of the eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium...
When the Hauptmann murder trial opened at Flemington, N. J. press photographers and newsreel cameramen were admitted on Judge Trenchard's condition that no pictures be taken while court was in session. To minimize confusion the five major newsreels-Paramount, Hearst Metrotone, Fox, Pathe, Universal- jointly operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken. The camera, electrically controlled and housed in a soundproof hood, was lodged in the balcony, about 35 ft. from the judge's bench. A microphone was hidden behind an electric fan over the jury...
Films were supposed to be made only when Judge Trenchard was not on the bench. But the dignified old judge must have been the only person connected with the trial who did not suspect that the camera was turning whenever an important witness was on the stand. Among newsmen, who could hear the motor being started and stopped by remote control, it was an open secret. A courtroom guard was stationed hardly a dozen feet from the camera. Counsel for both sides could easily have been aware that their examination of Col. Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh, Dr. Condon and Defendant Hauptmann...
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...