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Snow Envy
Fred “Red” Felbinger shoots back at a few of his colleagues taunting him with postcards of warmer locations during a bitterly cold Chicago winter. One newsreel practice that once existed was sending some crew members (and their families) to Florida for the winter months. Obviously Felbinger wasn’t a beneficiary of Read More →
The Swede’s Pet Peeve
Another one of Ray “Swede” Fernstrom’s rants about his craft being accused of staging news events… There seems to be a general tendency, in various columns, fan magazines and newspapers, to criticise the newsreels of today. They say newsreels are monotonous, faked and nothing but repetitions year after year. Is Read More →
Fermstrom wants an Emmy award…
Back in 1933, Ray Fernstrom of Paramount News back thought the newsreels should be given Emmy awards. Unfortunately for Fernstrom, back in those days just moving to Seattle was not an option if he wanted a shiny gold statue for his shelf (sorry, really bad joke from a market I Read More →
Prison Break
Jack Barnett, roving cameraman for Chicago Daily News-Universal News Reel, tells an interesting bit of news that occurred while on an assignment in Atlanta, Georgia. Barnett, while in the South on several assignments, received a dash from Charlie Ford to cover a prison break. Jack chartered an airplane — flew Read More →
Hours into a minute-thirty story….
On August 8, 1933 as a stunt during the Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago, naval aviator Lt. Commander Thomas T. W. “Tex” Settle attempted to fly a balloon into the stratosphere. It was at the time to be the highest balloon flight ever attempted and naturally the press Read More →