Sentences with phrase «newsreel features»

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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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

Leonard Maltin — a hell of a historian, if only a mediocre critic — gives background to the standard «Night at the Movies» simulation that includes in this instance the trailer for Bogart and Huston's Key Largo, a newsreel, the comedy short So You Want to Be a Detective, and the Looney Tunes cartoon Hot Cross Bunny (featuring an ape on Lionel Barrymore, whom audiences would have just seen in the Key Largo trailer).

(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.

Sunday's Oscars telecast on the one hand featured the glittery self - regard that is the hallmark of such an event: Host Jimmy Kimmel kicked off the proceedings with a newsreel - ish treatment of the «Haaah - llywood staaahs» who, over the course of the show, would be plucked from the firmament to delight the audience below.

The four features are the highlights, but the totality celebrates the diversity of cinematic forms in early cinema: 30 - second «actualities,» newsreels, cartoons, political tracts, documentary exposés, and more.

Fox Movietone News (1:15) is a short newsreel on the 22nd Annual Academy Awards, featuring clips from the 1950 ceremony.

-- featuring Charlie Chaplin as a bumbling stagehand and Edna Purviance as a starlet — and a «Newsreel» that is the very opposite of informative: a compilation of clips from Madam Satan preceded by a shot of Chaplin with Marion Davies.

Catrin begins writing scripts for informational reels aimed at women, offering helpful tips about keeping quiet on military matters, lest the enemy be listening (The ministry has the short scenes play in between the newsreel and the feature, when they have the audience «trapped» in their seats).

The experience felt like a throwback to when audiences would learn about the latest developments of World War II from the newsreels screened before an evening's feature presentation.

In the good old days when movie houses played two features, a newsreel, a serial and coming attractions, «Desierto» would fit in nicely as a solid «B» movie.

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.

Moreover, from 1935 to around 1950, American moviegoers expected a double feature (as well as a cartoon, a newsreel, and trailers) every time they went to the movies; by the mid-30s this was the fare at 85 percent of the movie houses.

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

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.

In the good old days, theaters used to run a newsreel before the feature presentation.

Also includes the hour - long documentary A Dying Breed: The Making of The Leopard, featuring interviews with Claudia Cardinale, screenwriter Suso Ceccho D'Amico, cinematographer Guiseppe Rotunno, and Sydney Pollack (who worked with Burt Lancaster on the American dub version) among others, video interviews with producer Goffredo Lombardo and Professor Millicent Marcus of the University of Pennsylvania (on the history behind The Leopard), stills gallery, original trailers and newsreels and a booklet.

The other bonus features are all quite similar: a mix of in - character narration by some of the newsies, combined with behind - the - scenes footage, talking heads interviews with cast, crew, and historians, and in some cases vintage photos and one vintage newsreel that was quite cool, actually.

The archival goodies include a Movietone newsreel, covering steelhead trout, the Nazi invasion of Scandinavia, and new women's fashion (featuring «non-crushable linen, crisp and cool for summer»); and the patriotic cartoon «Old Glory,» with Porky Pig in a non-gag short about the importance in learning the Pledge of Allegiance.

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).

The threats to the archive are due to a constant lack of resources needed to digitize stocks of newsreels, feature and documentary films, and funding to maintain equipment and the premises.