- Description:
- 1/2 in., VHS, NTSC. viewing copy. 1 videocassette of 1.
b/w.
sound - monaural.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a newsreel by Time Magazine, THE MARCH OF TIME was seen monthly for 16 years in more than 50,000 theaters. This award-winning documentary series takes a fascinating look at the world during the first half of the 20th century.
Titles
+ Junk and War
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- Housewives, farmers, motorists, all unwittingly are aiding in the armaments race by selling junk that is destined to become implements of war.
+ England’s D.O.R.A.
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- The Defense of the Realm Act is here, causing the British as much trouble as our prohibition laws did. And like us, they find means of circumventing this unpopular law.
+ Fiorello LaGuardia
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- New York’s aggressive and efficient mayor, foe of corruption, looms as potential Presidential candidate. His record is excellent, as even his enemies will admit.
+ Crisis in Algeria
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- An unfrocked priest, Abbe Lambert, of the N. African colony of Algeria, figures in the Fascist struggle for power in the Mediterranean. Exploitation of the Arabs causes him to turn to Minister of State Violette, but even his hands seem tied. by delay and procrastination.
+ “Amoskeag” - Success Story
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- Manchester’s Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, biggest cotton mill in the world, leads in a recovery program from bankruptcy to a flourishing collection of new industries.
+ U.S. Secret Service
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- Illustrating the methods pursued by the Secret Service, the March of Time presents the story of William Watts, the most dangerous counterfeiter of modern times.
+ Alaska’s Salmon War
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- Strained relations between Japan and the U.S. threaten to result from the delicate question raised by the practice of Japanese fisherman - gobbling up the catch of salmon just outside the three-mile limit in Alaskan waters. Alaska’s strategic important as a military jumping-off base is stressed. Moral suasion doesn’t seem to get far with Japan.
+ Britain’s Gambling Fever
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- Clips about Britain’s gambling in soccer.
+ Human Heart, The
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- The advancements in medicine in regard to heart disease in the U.S.
+ Finland’s 20th Birthday
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- A look at Finland’s growth.
+ Laugh Industry, The
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 5 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- A look at radio and comedic industries in the U.S.
+ Ships-Strikes-Seamen
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Time Inc.
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1937
- Language:
- English language
- Genre:
- Newsreel
- Notes:
- Footage of men at work at sea.