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In these first sound motion pictures ever taken at the Metropolitan Opera, Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, a 25 year veteran of the Met, views his last opening night of "Aida" from his manager's peephole, and takes some time in his office for reflection.
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This film was produced with the assistance of a special teen-age advisory board to study the characteristics and peculiarities of the new wartime phenomenon of the "teenage girl", identified by advertisers as a group of highly individualized consumers. Topics covered include clothing, magazines, dancing, sports, friendship and the prom.
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Produced for the New York State Youth Commission, this film is one of the first explorations of juvenile delinquency and the criminal lifespan. Experts believed the growing prison system was a direct result of environment. Parents, churches, schools and the entire community were urged to work together to provide proper influences for growing children.
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In one of the earliest reflections of the modern-day self-help movement, this film illustrates the nontraditional sources people began to turn to in order to manage the increasingly complex and stressful American lifestyle including radio counselors, newspaper advice columns, numerologists, fortune-tellers and astrologers.
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The March of Time looks at the state of design, art, music, politics and science at the midpoint of the 20th Century. Some of the people included are General Omar N. Bradley, Albert Einstein and Robert Oppenheimer. Radio and television pioneer David Sarnoff makes the bold prediction of the Internet and the iPod. Additionally, MoMA is briefly profiled with comments from the British poet and art critic Sir Herbert Read.
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On many levels this is the single most important and controversial The March of Time film. In 1937 the United States was fiercely isolationist. At this time there was still little media coverage of the oppression and aggression in Europe. Time, Inc. was still pro-Germany. The March of Time hired a freelancer with a hidden camera to film inside Berlin. An elaborate scheme was devised to smuggle the film back to the United States. Many behind-the-scenes aspects of Nazism that were witnessed, but not captured on film, were then reenacted in Hoboken, NJ. Upon release, "Inside Nazi Germany" was both damned and praised. Radio City Music Hall ran the film for a record 16 weeks. It has been called the first commercially released anti-Nazi motion picture, and producer David O. Selznick praised it as "one of the greatest and most important reels in the history of pictures." The film was later deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the Unites States Film Registry.
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