Crashing the Movies (1950)

Pete Smith: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : Newsreel cameramen are forever at work making out of the stories of today a record which will be the history of tomorrow. At Newsweekly Headquarters, carefully cross-indexed data concerns events and personalities which those hustling photographers have captured for posterity. Noted here are movies of scientific achievements, of economic woe, of historic importance; but at the moment we're looking for none of these. Ah, this looks more like it - yep, what we want are people who crash the newsreels through unique events such as this...

  [the film short then goes on to show and display examples]