THE MARCH OF TIME VOL. 1 N°2

  • Pare Lorentz
  • 1935
  • United States
  • 20 minutes
  • English
  • DR
    DR

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
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