Abstract

Films

The article provides information about the newsreel series on current events "The March of Time," produced and directed by Louis de Rochemont. According to the editors of Time and Fortune who are responsible for the enterprise, this new feature is to bear the same relation to the ordinary newsreel that the weekly news magazine bears to the daily newspaper. It is to be designated by the somewhat high-sounding label of "pictorial journalism." Any criticism of this offering must of course be tempered by the consideration that it is after all an experiment, a venture in a form of journalism that has never before been attempted. Improvement of a technical sort, in photography, in montage, and in the enacting of the staged scenes, is bound to take place when the enterprise loses some of its novelty.