Sentences with phrase «movietone newsreels»

Pudovkin's Kinoglas and Dziga Vertov's Kinopravda were no «newsreels» but political television magazine programs avant l'écran.

According to interviews, this protest was apparently the first incident of international protest committed to film and shown in theatres as part of newsreels.

The aim was not to simply produce a beautiful exhibition and magazine feature but, by meeting some of the individuals beyond the headlines and newsreel footage, to connect hardened hearts in the with real people who are part of the crisis.

You will observe a collection of newsreels whence give testimonial evidence of the fact that there is an invisible, h ate ful, mur der ous, being.

To see how young Americans were used for Nazi propaganda one had only to attend movie theaters where Paramount and Fox Movietone newsreels were weekly features.

00:49 - And now he moves on to praising Gordon Brown - this will be playing on the newsreels tomorrow.

The video, which is modeled after an old - fashioned newsreel, features an array of individuals criticizing Ryan and his policy positions and says the Wisconsin congressman's «vision for American is one that will take the nation back to a very different era.»

The royals» dismal, off - key response to the tragic death of Princess Di in 1997 whipped up more public vituperation against the Monarchy than anything we have seen since the ghastly Edward VIII ran off with Wallis Simpson back in the days of black and white newsreel.

While the newsreel was poignant and compelling, where was Mo Mowlam?

It reminds me of the old newsreels of the Hindenburg as it crashed and burned.

On a day such as today, our thoughts invariably stray to the past, but, as the 2nd President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor, once put it, and I quote: «we do not intend to live on past memories, nor the Ghana story to be only what can be seen on old newsreel tapes, nor our sporting glories to be recounted only through the exploits of past heroes».

Newsreels showed what Einstein looked like, how he moved, the angle of his grin.

In 1978 in northwest Canada's Yukon territory, construction on a new recreation centre... Some 533 silent films were recovered, including newsreels and features

The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, originally a supergroup, from Halmstad, formed in 1995.

Steven Spielberg crafted his landmark Holocaust story Schindler's List to look like a documentary, using black - and - white film to give it a newsreel authenticity and employing Steven Zaillian's straight - forward screenplay as a template that consistently rejects melodrama and lets the barbarity speak for itself.

Spielberg begins the film by using newsreel - like footage, and uses that to lead into the story.

Bizarre anime-esque newsreel interludes aside, I fought off through five (just five?)

This is followed by newsreel footage of the unimaginable damage, and stories related by those who were there or arrived soon after, like parents whose children were trapped in the building's day - care center.

Decasia is what has happened already to so many silent movies, newsreels and the like.

Between the newsreel footage of contemporary atrocities and the talking - heads interviews, the life of Lemkin is illustrated in monochrome watercolour animation.

His cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, who also shot «Schindler's List,» brings a newsreel feel to a lot of the footage, but that's relatively easy compared to his most important achievement, which is to make everything visually intelligible.

Another notable change, the addition of an opening montage parodying newsreels, was reportedly the result of network pressure after Allen's initial cut proved too short for the planned time slot.

In this grippingly edited look at the world's first televised trial, newsreels of the doomed being herded to their deaths document Eichmann's logistical achievement.

The newsreel shows a promotional tour the recreated ship took to various territories.

Stark and disturbing newsreel footage is combined with letters written by soldiers to loved ones at home and the music of the times.

Composed of extraordinary source footage, most entirely unseen before, that combines newsreels, U.S. and British television shows, home movies and hundreds of rare photographs blended with the requisite talking - head interviews.

Combining newsreel footage with re-enactment's, the film captures the horror of the hostages — Americans Terry Anderson, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Reed; British citizens John McCarthy, Terry Waite; and Irish teacher Brian Keenan — as they are held by the Muslim fundamentalist group, the Hezbollah.

Stylistically, The Settlers is crisp: It's an intelligent blend of interviews, historical exposition and newsreel footage.

Using a wealth of sources — from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad — Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war.

The first half of this post war - time drama is a straight propaganda piece, filmed in newsreel style, showing how the plucky ladies and chaps of the OSS were trained to sock it to the dreaded hun.

After the bright green grass and sunny skies of the cemetery opening, we plunge into the past, a grainy, desaturated world that owes much to the newsreel documentary footage of the time.

As Dillinger and his crew run riot, we get a real sense of the era with its classic clubs, cinematic newsreels and downtrodden gentry classes.

20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures have released a fun spin on the trailer for The Monuments Men by doing it in the style of a World War II newsreel.

«Detroit» does include authentic newsreel footage, but this is not a standard docu - drama.

A pair of spotlights shot into the air most likely to announce the new Sizzler on Rodeo, but I imagined it was to herald one of those old newsreel, fur coat and spat premieres, right behind the barber college, maybe, that sits at the corner of Hollywood and Vine.

The disc has commentary track by historians David Del Valle and Steven Peros, an isolated music and effects track, a newsreel, original trailers, several featurettes and an AMC backstory special.

But it's worth remembering that one of the greatest films ever made, «Citizen Kane,» is a story laid out for an inquisitive obituary newsreel producer.

The bonus material blows that of «Mad Men» away, offering six audio commentaries, a look at several episodes from the directors» point of view, a variety of «newsreels» which provide historical context to the season's events and much more.

He acquires his sinecure by commanding newsreel cameras and such founts of propaganda sewage as Walter Winchell.

Other lesser known works, such as 1928's The White Stadium, are marvels of late - silent era filmmaking, employing elliptical editing rather than the newsreel style more common to several of the earlier compilation films in this collection.

by Bryant Frazer English cinematographer Christopher Challis got his start working on newsreels and travelogues before getting a gig with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's production company, The Archers.

by Walter Chaw Opening with a newsreel and ending with a peculiar bit of religiosity, Byron Haskin's (really George Pal's) The War of the Worlds runs the gamut of H.G. Wells's seminal bit of seriocosmic / pseudo-scientific allegory, assaulting colonialism by dooming spoilers to strange diseases in faraway places.

Twilight Time's Blu - ray includes a «making of» featurette, interesting for its attempts at authenticity by providing similarities between actor Sharif and Guevara from newsreel footage, but somewhat hides the obvious mismatch between Palance and the real Castro.

James A. Fitzpatrick Traveltalks: Volume 1 (DVD - R) Release date: May 24 Details: 1930s - «40s, Warner Archive Collection Rated: Not rated The lowdown: Decades ago, the movie - going experience was comprised of a complete menu of offerings — a cartoon, previews of coming attractions, a newsreel and the feature film — or, perhaps, a double feature.

Prior to her tenure at Firelight, she held staff and consulting positions with California Newsreel, Active Voice, Kartemquin Films, Working Films, and the Independent Television Service.

(An earlier split - screen montage of runway models contrasted newsreel footage from the turbulent years of 1968 and 1969 is almost as exhilarating.)

This darkly funny and eerily relevant 1982 cult classic about how to stop worrying and love the bomb is pieced together from government - produced educational and training films, newsreels and... More

* Dunkirk: lapping of leaflets as they fall in quiet street of a seaside town... * Imperceptible bleed of newsreel and movie, Detroit... * Post-first-kiss, Christine's (Saoirse Ronan's) milestone - marking scream in middle of suburban street, Lady Bird... * Bobby (Willem Dafoe) fires up a cigarette; lights come on all over The Florida Project....

Newsreel: Greer Garson Academy Awards Footage (0:54) / Short Films: «Mr. Blabbermouth» (19:17) + «For the Common Defense» (21:29) / Photo Gallery with 33 images / Theatrical trailer for «Mrs. Miniver»

Bigelow has a way of making scripted drama feel like an utterly gripping newsreel.