Word: newsreels
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...does ring true. Just as, aside from some poorly faked newsreel sequences and some not completely persuasive baseball playing, The Babe rings true -- that is, sad and a little tawdry...
...used jazz as formula for cheap "atmosphere." Morrison rises above his temptation. There is no explicit jazz anywhere in this novel, no over-romantic images of saxophones and speak-easies. Instead, jazz is transmuted into narrative voice--a voice that at times surges poetically, at times sounds like a newsreel, at times is all-knowing...
Original MovieTone newsreel footage reinforces the film's credibility as a forties saga. Seltzer fades from black and white into color at the beginning of several scenes, providing an effective juxtaposition...