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  1. Croix de Feu

    Date released
    1935
    Series name
    The March of Time 1st Year
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    352111
    Story no
    4 / 5

    March of Time synopsis: The second worst railroad wreck in history, scandalous collapse of a loan company, "suicide" of an international crook, Alexandre Stavisky, set the stage for widespread and turbulent...

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  2. Father Coughlin

    Date released
    1935
    Series name
    The March of Time 1st Year
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    352092
    Story no
    4 / 4

    March of Time synopsis: New in US politics is the phenomenon of a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, actively involved in broadcasting his views by radio. His following, over 8,000,000...

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  3. Resettlement of Palestine by Jews

    Date released
    1935
    Series name
    The March of Time 1st Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352085
    Story no
    1 / 4

    Fielding synopsis: "...painting a background of oppression of the Jews in Nazi Germany, their flight to Palestine, and the rebuilding of Haifa, Tel Aviv, the Valley of Israel, and other locations into a new...

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  4. Paris: Public Executioner

    Date released
    1936
    Series name
    The March of Time 1st Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    352128
    Story no
    2 / 3

    Fielding synopsis: "...a screen biography of Pierre Deibler, France’s chief executioner - ‘The Outcast of Paris’. In a lively piece of cinematic Grand Guignol, the March of Time cameras followed this...

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  5. Santo Domingo

    Date released
    Jan 1936
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    352134
    Story no
    2 / 3

    BFI synopsis: survey of Trujillo’s dictatorship.

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  6. Centennial Cities’ battle of beauties

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    352151
    Story no
    3 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: America laughs as beauty vies with municipal fervour in Texas’ centenary celebrations.

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  7. King Cotton’s Slave

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    12
    NoS ID
    352095
    Story no
    3 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: The No.12 issue of The March of Time contains a dramatic episode entitled "King Cotton’s Slaves" - a story of the bitter struggles between planters and sharecroppers (pickers)...

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  8. Conquering Cancer

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    352160
    Story no
    2 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: Of significant interest to every man and woman in Great Britain is the episode entitled "Conquering Cancer", which reviews the increasingly successful efforts of science to combat...

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  9. Father of all turks

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 2nd Year
    Issue no
    11
    NoS ID
    352159
    Story no
    1 / 3

    The March of Time synopsis: The first episode of the new issue of the March of Time tells the dramatic story of Mustapha Kemal’s rise to fame and reviews the new Turkey he has brought into being. Pictured...

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  10. War in China

    Date released
    1937
    Series name
    The March of Time 3rd Year
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    352113
    Story no
    1 / 2

    Fielding synopsis: "Included were exclusive shots of the Japanese bombing of the Cathay Hotel and the Chinese native quarter, and the explosion of the ship Augusta... Reenactments made in New York City and...

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