March of Time
Time, Inc., founded by Henry Luce 1923
Roy Larsen - a leader of the new media
"newscasting" 1928 - radio version 1931
- narrator was the key - Harry Von Zell
- Louis de Rochemont - from Fox 1934
"pictorial journalism" - film version monthly Feb.1,1935
- pictures amplified and defined by narrator
- Harry von Zell, Westbrook Van Voorhis
- interpretive, provocative
- "newsacting" mixed with newsreels
- high cost of $50,000 per issue (newsreels $10,000)
- simple, direct photography, static eye-level camera
Issue #2 from March 8, 1935:
- Bruno Hauptmann trial by New York Daily News - re-enactment
- Harold Edgerton's speed camera - celebrated technology
- Mohawk disaster and Senator Key Pittman - used by politicians
- Huddie Ledbetter and Curator John Lomax - nationalistic
- Adolph Hitler threatening but Europe "on guard" - provocative
Issue #3 from April 19, 1935:
- munition-maker Basil Zaharoff - personalized
- Mexico's Calles and Prof Gonzalez - pro-religion
- "dictator" Huey Long - opinionated
- Trans-Pacific Pan American Clipper - pre-enactment
Revised 10/31/00 by Schoenherr