Word: newsreeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...authority. The quiet was imposed by Nevada's canny old Pat McCarran, committee chairman, who sensed that the public might be fed up with theatrics and McCarthy-style scare tactics; McCarran set his sessions in a small, fourth-floor capital committee room, banned play-by-play television and newsreel coverage. The air of authority stems from the fact that committee investigators swooped down on a Massachusetts barn last February and seized some 300,000 letters and memoranda belonging to the Institute of Pacific Relations. Committee Counsel Robert Morris, a patient young lawyer who was Republican counsel in the Tydings...
Vacationing in Venice, Winston Churchill was behaving in a strangely camera-shy fashion. An Italian newsreel cameraman managed to get some pictures, only to lose them when a bodyguard snatched the film. Two other photographers in a rowboat had better luck when they caught Churchill in the surf, where the only thing he could do was splash water at them. He cooled his nerves later in the casino, where he played roulette until...
...meeting of the small group, Joy named Major General Henry Hodes and Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. The Communists named North Korea's Lee Song Cho and Red China's Hsieh Feng. That day only four allied newsmen went to Kaesong-one reporter, one photographer, one newsreel cameraman and a radioman. The Reds obliged by sending only four newsmen of their...
...daily on which he pyramided an empire. He was buried last week as he liked to live, in a blaze of regal pomp. The governor was there, the mayor, notables of publishing, screen, stage and public affairs. A movie-studio publicist shepherded the press. Flashbulbs blinked, newsreel cameras whirred. Somewhere in the crowd of 1,500, a woman fainted...
...producer, who began his career in his teens with a homemade newsreel camera, has never made a complete movie in Hollywood and has no use for the place. After producing four of his films for 20th Century-Fox, Individualist de Rochemont clashed with Individualist Darryl F. Zanuck, the studio's boss, over publicity and screen credits. He quit, moved over to M-G-M and quit again when the studio wanted him to make Lost Boundaries in its own way, i.e., with fictitious violence and a budget three times as large as the $500,000 he spent making...