Universal Weekly (1928-1930, 1933-1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Universal Weekly
Date:
1928-1930, 1933-1936
Author:
Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Publisher:
New York, Moving Picture Weekly Pub. Co.
Volume:
Universal Weekly (1928-1936)
Leaf #:
000604
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The organ of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Previously titled MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY.
Date Added:
September 28, 2023
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s Universal Weekly Januaby 25, 1980 There’s Nothin No. 674 — Straight from the Shoulder Talk by Carl Laemmlef President of the Universal Pictures Corporation HAVE you heard Graham McNamee’s marvelous work in his very first Talking Reporter job? Isn’t it a knockout? Did you ever dream that the screen could give you the living, breathing, lifting voice of the world’s most famous radio announcer in such perfect tone and naturalness? Didn’t you get a glorious kick out of it when McNamee described the news events with all the verve and pep and color that he puts into his radio announcements? Mind you, this is the very first time he ever acted as Universal’s Talking Reporter and he took to it as a duck takes to water. There’s absolutely nothing like Universal’s Talking Reporter on the screen. It is the new and sensational thing of the day, despite its absolute simplicity. How the audiences prick up their ears when they first