1944 ARTS: Paramount newsreel celebrates 50th Anniversary of film

Date: 1st January 1944

Location: U.S.A.

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

SLATE INFORMATION: Fifty Years of Films

'British Paramount News' writing on side of old fashioned film camera

Soldiers filming in battle, man looking through lens

Planes flying in formation, bombs dropping and explosions on ground below

Exterior of museum, old film cameras and photographs of film pioneers on display

Adolf Zukor (Paramount chief executive)

Woman and man looking at peep show slot machine and images of woman jumping over step seen on machine

Traffic along including trolleybuses and horse drawn carriages on London? street

Three children dressed in sailor suits

Suffragette march, suffragette speaking and suffragette arrested by police

People along in old fashioned bathing suits (1910s?)

Modern house

Actress Sarah Bernhardt playing Queen Elizabeth ? on screen

Actress Mary Pickford ? in film 'The Confederate Captain's Sweetheart'

Unknown actor looking into camera

Unidentified actress looking into camera

Scene from unidentified film

Ten Commandments film excerpt

Unknown film clips

Lawrence of Arabia clip with Rudolph Valentino

Neon signs advertising films at night

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