Sentences with phrase «film newsreel»

The installation will be based on MacCallum's own architectural photographs of the plant taken in 1986, and will also include archival photographs, aerial survey photos, images from the company's promotional material and film newsreel footage.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The film begins with black - and - white newsreel footage of the war's end, cutting to a similarly toned image of Elizabeth's observant face.

Blu - ray and DVD, with plenty of supplements: new interviews with Otto Preminger biographer Foster Hirsch and music critic Gary Giddins, a featurette on graphic designer Saul Bass and his long collaborative relationship with Preminger, excerpts from a 1967 episode of «Firing Line» featuring Preminger, newsreel footage from the set, and excerpts from a work - in - progress documentary on the making of the film, plus stills, a trailer and booklet with a new essay and an archival article.

(Elia Kazan, 1947), Call Northside 777 (Henry Hathaway, 1948), and The Naked City (Jules Dassin, 1948), T - Men achieved this semblance of realism through the then - innovative (by classical Hollywood standards) on - location filming in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.; a newsreel - style voiceover; and a cast featuring lesser - known stars like former Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer contract player Dennis O'Keefe.

Beyond that, a «Fox Movietone News: Cavalcade Wins First Honors is a 1 - minute, standard - def newsreel that sees a studio executive offer public, calculated praise to the film's two lead actors and someone else.

Bonus materials on the unrated Blu - ray release include audio commentary by Gaylyn Studlar, co-editor of Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster; original 1912 newsreel; a White Star Line promotional film, offering a tour of the Olympic, Titanic's sister ship; and a theatrical trailer.

From newsreels to comedy sketches, the 21 films that make up MAKE MORE NOISE!

Don't miss: Extras include a making of documentary and newsreel footage from the film's premiere.

He was credited as consultant on numerous films, TV and radio shows and even comic books, seen in newsreels and portrayed as a figure of paternal authority whenever seen or referred to in classic movies.

Near the beginning of the film, after a grim montage of old newsreels and photos of southern black labor and lynching of blacks, a color fade takes us from archival footage of blacks exiting a New Orleans train to a shot of Junior alone with his suitcase in front of the station.

Using mostly a half - French, half - Japanese cast and crew, with locations restricted to Nevers, France, and the titular city, Resnais» film is an intense, intimate film: poetic dialogue, newsreel images of Hiroshima bomb victims, intense physical foreplay, a revolutionary flashback structure, political subtext, and a decisively striking use of modernistic Japanese architecture, contrasted with roughly hewn and ornately decorated stone homes in Nevers, France collectively evoke a dreamlike atmosphere, as a romance is joined during its fiery rise, and left when the morning embers offer a mere faint and dusty glow.

Like some of Warner's prior classic film releases, Captain Blood comes with a mini-program of short subjects, newsreels, and cartoons, plus a Leonard Maltin intro designed for those unfamiliar with the value one got during the Thirties for a dime.

Writer / director Bill Morrison has assembled a treasure trove of «lost» images — silent films, newsreels, and archives from the turn of the last century — that was buried deep in the permafrost of the Yukon.

«Fox Movietonews: An Affair to Remember Shipboard Premiere Attracts Celebrities» is a vintage 1 - minute Movietone newsreel that covers a few celebrity arrivals at the film's premiere, held on an actual ship.

13 Rue Madeleine was the second feature from producer Louis de Rochemont, who previously spent a decade producing the «March of Time» newsreel series, the most widely seen non-fiction films on American screens.

At a climactic concert at a party, rows of listeners can be seen gliding off in separate directions as if on separate mind journeys, and in a much earlier surreal sequence featuring newsreel war footage in a cafe, the narrator, reading a letter, can be seen rising with his chair like a film director seated on a crane, all the way to the top of the room, where he encounters his own childhood self running a projector — an image that might be traced, like much else, to one of Proust's extended descriptive passages.

While Warner treated the 1962 Mutiny to an expansive two - disc Special Edition, the 1935 film settles for just a handful of extras: trailers for both versions, an extremely short newsreel on the 1935 Oscar win, and a 10 - minute 1935 short called Pitcairn Island Today which completely avoids discussing the supposedly long - accepted Polynesian tradition of underage sex.

Eschewing even the threadbare commentary tracks, trailers, and «newsreel footage» to be found on their other releases, it's a wonder Twilight Time even bothered to create original packaging and didn't just send copies of the film out in CD jewel cases labeled with magic marker.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin's 1972 rerelease version of the film, featuring an original score by Chaplin, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New audio commentary featuring Chaplin historian Charles Maland Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star, a new video essay by Chaplin historian Lisa Haven A Study in Undercranking, a new program featuring silent - film specialist Ben Model Interviews with Coogan and actor Lita Grey Chaplin Excerpted audio interviews with cinematographer Rollie Totheroh and film distributor Mo Rothman Deleted scenes and titles from the original 1921 version of The Kid «Charlie» on the Ocean, a 1921 newsreel documenting Chaplin's first return trip to Europe Footage of Chaplin conducting his score for «The Kid» Nice and Friendly, a 1922 silent short featuring Chaplin and Coogan, presented with a new score by composer Timothy Brock Trailers Plus: An essay by film scholar Tom Gunning

The film opens with an authentic recreation of a vintage newsreel and its admiration of classic cinema doesn't end there.

Back then, you would not only get a feature film, but possibly a cartoon, a newsreel and a short subject, which could be something dramatic such as MGM's «Crime Doesn't Pay» or «Passing Parade» series or a comedy featuring Laurel & Hardy, The Three Stooges, Our Gang or some other comedian.

This is a feature film and not a documentary (on - screen notes at the end explain that while the film is based on meticulous research, some dramatic license was by necessity taken), but Bigelow has a way of making scripted drama feel like an utterly gripping newsreel.

Her lines are reminiscent of World War II — era newsreels, another way the film's future looks a lot like the past.

In celebration of how many British actors have been nominated for this year's Oscars, celebrity photographer Jason Bell filmed them for Vanity Fair in three fake newsreels depicting an all - star British invasion of Hollywood.

The other bonus materials include a one - minute newsreel about the film's premiere, interviews with actress Ruth Warrick and editor Robert Wise, the theatrical trailer, and two sections with various materials:

She has a wonderful look in this film, a sort of cross between an average young woman in a vintage newsreel and Botticelli's Venus.

Gary Oldman in «The Darkest Hour»: In one of the most memorable film performances of the decade, Oldman gives us the Winston Churchill we know from newsreels and documentaries, a Churchill that has eluded every single actor who has ever made the attempt.

Warner Brothers» new DVD boasts a beautiful new transfer (perhaps too beautiful — the «News on the March» newsreel sequence now looks too clean), plus full - length commentary tracks by film Peter Bogdanovich (who wrote the definitive Welles biography) and film critic Roger Ebert.

On the disc, newsreel footage from the film's New York premiere is included along with four little «making - of» featurettes, three of which presumably ran in theatres preceding or during the film's initial release.

The Movietone newsreel highlights the Battle of Britain raid - itself giving a good backdrop to the tense climate during the film's production - and a beautifully animated, black & white Porky Pig cartoon, set in a lively fish store («under new mis - management»).

A newsreel camera filmed the stacks of bodies, jutting bones and floppy genitals.

Weaving film footage from various sources, including countdown leaders, training films, and newsreels, with his own 16 mm film footage, Conner's films focus on disturbing but utterly current themes.

Their first film, Handsworth Songs (1986) explored the events surrounding the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London through a charged combination of archive footage, still photos and newsreel.

The NFPF preservation grants target newsreels, silent - era films, documentaries, culturally important home movies, avant - garde films, and endangered independent productions that fall under the radar of commercial preservation programs.

His idea for a media kiosk had magazines shelves on the bottom, a tribunal where someone reads the news live, and at the top — a screen to show newsreel film.

Betty is currently on the Board of Directors of Deep Dish TV and Third World Newsreel, two progressive media arts centers that distributes and exhibits social issue films.

Incorporating footage from a wide variety of sources — from countdown leaders and coming attractions to training films and newsreels — and adding later his own 16 mm film footage, Conner developed a quick - cut method of editing which defined his oeuvre, and coupled with his use of pop music soundtracks, made films like COSMIC RAY (1961) and BREAKAWAY (1966) among the earliest precursors of the music video.

The seminal, experimental found - footage film combines an assortment of unrelated scenes from newsreels, B - movies, and soft - core pornography, to create an audio - visual collage that prefigured post-modern cinema as well as music videos.

Furthermore, he was one of the pioneers of avant - garde film - making, redefining the notion of film by including footage from highly diverse sources — from the countdown leaders of early films in the medium, to movie trailers and training films and newsreels — to which he added his own 16 mm footage.

Other Grooms films include: The Big Sneeze (1962), a hand - drawn comic filmed by Rudy Burckhardt; Before an» After (1964), a sadomastic comedy that casts Mimi Gross as part dominatrix / part healthclub operator; Fat Feet (1966), a collaboration with Mimi Gross, Yvonne Andersen and Dominic Falcone that begins where Shoot the Moon ends; Tapping Toes (1968 - 70), which uses his first sculpto - pictorama City of Chicago (1967) as its set; Conquest of Libya by Italy (1912 - 13)(1972 - 3), a black and white animation that spoofs that era's newsreels; Hippodrome Hardware (1973), based on Grooms» 1972 live performance of the same name, whose main character Mr. Ruckus is played by Grooms; Grow Great (1974), a live - action short that features Mimi Gross as the household consumer; Little Red Riding Hood (1978), which features his daughter Saskia; and Man Walking Up (1984).