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THE MARCH OF TIME VOL. 1 N°2

Pare Lorentz
1935 United States 20 minutes English

The second issue of the monthly newsreel ran five subjects (later pared down to three and just one after 1938). We see Hitler sitting in front of the fire, a now famous documentary scene in fact staged in New York; a newspaper’s tactics to scoop the news of Bruno Hauptmann’s sentencing; and Huddie Ledbetter, a ex-prisoner turned blues and folk singer – the famous Leadbelly…

Production :
Louis De Rochemont for Times, Inc.
Narration :
Westbrook Van Voorhis
Copy contact :
HBO Archives - matthew.fisher@hbo.com