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NEWSREELSFORTV 293 cans, cards can be left out and, easiest of all, other films can be rewound onto wrong reels. Film should be indexed with master cards and cross reference cards. Suppose you were cataloguing Rita Hayworth's marriage. It would go under her name, of course, and Ali Khan's. It should also go under "1949 Screen Weddings" or a similar title, and "Film Star Weddings," and perhaps, "Aga Khan." This may seem a lot of effort, but it certainly simplifies searches for suitable film clips. If a properly organized and maintained library is not established it will mean wasting hours and hours in screening odd bits of film to see what they are about. One piece of film looks very much like another when it is on a reel. A point to note here is that it is always dangerous to use shots out of newsreels for productions after the news value is over, or to use them out of context if there are people in them who can be identified. This constitutes invasion of privacy and unauthorized use of another person's likeness for profit without permission or release as it is generally called. This is dealt with in more detail in Chapter 22 so we will leave it at that. As far as the technique of shooting is concerned there is only one which applies to the newsreel ; this is what is known as uncon- trolled. That is, the cameraman has no control over the actions of the subjects and everything that happens is unrehearsed. Of course, there are exceptions, such as shots of politicians and famous people or groups of people, but for the pure newsreel in which news is recorded as it happens the action is uncontrolled. In studio production filming everything is controlled so that the cameraman knows what is going to happen next and is prepared. But even the newsreel will be better if it can be made more of an artistic production by the proper use of production tricks such as cutaways. Frequently, because of lack of time or film, it is im- possible to show all the action as it occurs. But in order to carry the story—there is a story in newsreels, otherwise they are flat— reference to it should be maintained. A very brief cutaway to some object which tells the story of what happened makes the whole shooting hang together in a very professional manner.