Year book of motion pictures (1936)

1935 PICTURED BY HF MARrU nF TIMF FEB. 1— The challenge of small battery maker Fred Perkins to NRA's price and wage-fixing as he fights through the courts. FEB. 1 — Native to the American scene, prohibition's speakeasy under post-repeal opens its doors and becomes a tax payer. MARCH 8— How and why the N. Y. Daily News was able to beat all US newspapers on the street with "Bruno Must Die" verdict. MARCH 8— Hitler and his Nazi party as they recover the Saar, renounce the Versailles Treaty, and amaze Europe. APRIL 19— Exclusive shots of "the wisest and richest of the dealers of death," Sir Basil Zaharoff, and Senator Nye's committee. APRIL 19— The grim struggle of peons to worship as they have for centuries, amazed at the new generation of Godless teachings. APRIL 19— ThelTrans-Pacific Express flies the great ocean as the US forges ahead in a race to tap China markets. APRIL 19 — Huey Long's career, from door-to-door salesman to the US Senate. A patriot in his own state. To his opponents, a clown, a demagogue, a menace. AUG. 16 — Out of the scandals of French politics, the Croix de Feu springs into being. Led by a man that "wears the look of a dictator." SEP. 20 — In Ethiopia is Lake Tana, headwaters of the Blue Nile. As Italy moves, Britain worries. US passes neutrality legislation. OCT. 17 — Japan booms as League member markets are closed to the belligerents. US finds suppliers greedy, but one speaks strongly against war profits. OCT. 18 — Palestine, ancient home of the Jews, grows as persecution brings thousands from Germany. NOV. 15— GOP leaders and Herbert Hoover, titular head of the party, plan for the coming pre-presidential campaign of 1936. DEC. 13 — In four years, Japan has accomplished much in Manchukuo. Now she eyes more territory. What will the rejuvenated League of Nations do? DEC. 13 — As other plans to end economic stress fade, the Townseod Plan for oldsters gains. With it, 1936 candidates reckon. AS TIME MARCHED ON 1 AST year, US citizens relaxing in their favorite cinema theaters discovered a new experience in motion pictures, The March of Time on the screen. It deah with news, but neither in the manner nor with the kind of news to which the screen was accustomed. Subjects, familiar as backgrounds for cornerstone layings and official ribbon-cutting, were disclosed as thrilling ventures in national planning. People long in the headlines but barred from the screen by traditional taboos on politics and debate, appeared in informative, arresting dramas of modern life. Schemes, isms and international entanglements, their obscure beginnings, little known developments and headline-making climaxes portrayed in sequences so swiftly and sharply revealing that the cinema public reacted instantly to the combined impact of news and drama. Wary at first, cinema critics and theater men watched audience reception, gave hearty support when issue after issue proved that here was a new cinema "natural." The March of Time goes into 1936 an established success, an emphatic "must" on the schedules of knowing theatre-goers and alert exhibitors. 0 t Starting in 41 7 atres on February 1st, 1935, The March of "Time today is seen monthly in 4500 us theaters, 350 in Great Britain (estimate 5 00 by next month) and some 200 in other parts of the world. Issues are being made in English, Spanish and Ehitch. jk J THE March sTIME \|/ MODUCCD tn IMl IDITOaS o» Tim 2