Movietone
Britishnoun
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Wadia initially cast her in small roles in films produced by his studio Wadia Movietone, which he ran with his brother Homi.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024
His father, Sol, was a cinematographer for Fox Movietone News.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2023
In 1948, N-B-C T-V began airing its first nightly newscast, “The Camel Newsreel Theatre,” which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels.
From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2021
Although Polanski never directed Caine, both men appear as themselves in Peter Whitehead’s 1967 documentary Tonite Let’s All Make Love In London, as well as this retroactively horrifying-for-many-reasons British Movietone newsreel about the Polanski-Tate wedding:
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2018
People accustomed to reading comparatively dry rehashes of events were now enthralled by vivid scenes rolling across the new Movietone newsreels.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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