March of Time

Time, Inc., founded by Henry Luce 1923
Roy Larsen - a leader of the new media

"newscasting" 1928 - radio version 1931

• narrator was the key - Harry Von Zell
  
• Louis de Rochemont - from Fox 1934
  

"pictorial journalism" - film version monthly Feb.1,1935

• pictures amplified and defined by narrator
• Harry von Zell, Westbrook Van Voorhis
  
• interpretive, provocative
  
• "newsacting" mixed with newsreels
• high cost of $50,000 per issue (newsreels $10,000)
• simple, direct photography, static eye-level camera
  

Issue #2 from March 8, 1935:

• Bruno Hauptmann trial by New York Daily News - re-enactment
• Harold Edgerton's speed camera - celebrated technology
• Mohawk disaster and Senator Key Pittman - used by politicians
• Huddie Ledbetter and Curator John Lomax - nationalistic
• Adolf Hitler threatening but Europe "on guard" - provocative

Issue #3 from April 19, 1935:

• munition-maker Basil Zaharoff - personalized
• Mexico's Calles and Prof Gonzalez - pro-religion
• "dictator" Huey Long - opinionated
• Trans-Pacific Pan American Clipper - pre-enactment

March of Time 1937
Ramparts We Watch film by Time Inc.

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