A Dispatch From Reuters, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Edward G Robinson, Edna Best

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A Dispatch From Reuters, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Edward G Robinson, Edna Best
A Dispatch From Reuters, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Edward G Robinson, Edna Best
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1940, drama feature, "A Dispatch From Reuters".
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
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This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
A Dispatch from Reuters is a 1940 biographical film about Paul Reuter, the man who built the famous news service that bears his name.
Paul Julius Reuter (Edward G. Robinson) starts a messenger service using homing pigeons to fill a gap in the telegraph network spanning Europe, but has difficulty convincing anyone to subscribe. When poison is sent to a hospital by mistake, Reuter's message saves the day (and many lives). However, he is persuaded by Ida Magnus (Edna Best), the pretty daughter of Dr. Magnus (Otto Kruger), to keep it quiet, as a scandal would undo all the good work the doctors are doing.
Finally though, with some hot news about Russia invading Hungary (which would depress the stock market), Reuter is able to convince bankers that he can provide them with financial information much more quickly than by any other means. He is particularly pleased and surprised by how reliable his lifelong, lackadaisical friend Max Wagner (Eddie Albert) has become at the Brussels office, until his associate Franz Geller (Albert Bassermann) informs him that Ida had, while there on a visit, taken over and run the place. Reuter sends a message by pigeon, asking her to marry him. She sends one back with her assent.
When the telegraph network finally fills the gap Reuter's business had been exploiting, he realizes that he can use the employees he has in place all over Europe to gather the news and sell it to the newspapers. Once again, he encounters resistance, particularly from John Delane (Montagu Love), influential editor of The Times, but overcomes it by persuading Louis Napoleon III (Walter Kingsford) to allow him to disseminate the text of an extremely important speech at the same time as it is being presented.
Later, a rival company appears; Anglo Irish secretly builds a telegraph line in Ireland that gives it a two-hour lead in getting news from ships coming from America. Reuter borrows money from his client and good friend, Sir Randolph Persham (Nigel Bruce), and builds his own line, one that extends further west and gets the news even quicker. Its first use is to announce the assassination of President Lincoln. As nobody knows about Reuter's new telegraph line, he is accused of making the tragedy up in order to manipulate the stock market; even Sir Randolph believes the rumors at first. The matter is brought up in the British Parliament, but Reuter is vindicated when slower services confirm his story.
Trivia
:
Reuters was the first of the great international news agencies. It made no sense for newspapers all over the world to have to try to find out news beyond their local area, when one agency could perform that work for every newspaper, and then they would subscribe to the agency's "news feed". This worked wonderfully from the mid 1800s until the birth of the Internet, which created a new way for news to be dispatched all over the world. But at its peak, Reuters and the other top news agencies employed thousands of people all over the world seeking out the news, and then reporting on it, and their reports were carried in thousands of newspapers all over the world.
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1940
Genre:
Drama,
Biography
Director(s):
William Dieterle
Producer(s):
Hal B. Wallis
Cast
:
Edward G. Robinson as Paul Julius Reuter
Edna Best as Ida Magnus Reuter
Eddie Albert as Max Wagner
Albert Bassermann as Franz Geller
Gene Lockhart as Otto Bauer
Otto Kruger as Dr. Magnus
Nigel Bruce as Sir Randolph Persham
Montagu Love as John Delane
James Stephenson as Carew
Walter Kingsford as Louis Napoleon III
David Bruce as Mr. Bruce
Dickie Moore as Reuter as a Boy
Lumsden Hare as Chairman
Cyril Delevanti as Cockney News Vendor (uncredited)
Gilbert Emery as Lord Palmerston (uncredited)
Robert Homans as Reporter (uncredited)
More Info on Edward G Robinson:
Edward G. Robinson was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania in 1892, and his parents took him to the U.S. in 1902. He was a small man, but possessed a gigantic talent! He was a stage actor in the 1910s and 1920s, but when sound came to movies Hollywood turned to Broadway to find talent who could talk, and he made his debut (after two minor roles) in The Hole in the Wall, starring opposite future major star Claudette Colbert, in her second movie. Seven movies later, he starred as Cesare Bandello (Rico) in
Little Caesar
, and it not only made him a major star, it also ushered in the great gangster movies of the 1930s. It also typecast him, and he made mostly gangster movies in the 1930s and 1940s, sometimes comedies or parodies of his classic image. In 1944 he made the incredibly wise decision to accept third billing in Billy Wilder's film noir
Double Indemnity
, and he and the movie were wonderful. That same year he also memorably starred in Fritz Lang's uber-depressing masterpiece, The Woman in the Window, and the following year he and Lang virtually remade that movie as Scarlet Street (although the two movies come from different source novels). He settled into character roles in major movies and lead roles in minor ones, greatly enriching such movies as The Stranger, Key Largo, and many more. He was caught up in the HUAAC hearings, and though he wasn't blacklisted, he spent a year on Broadway in plays. As he grew older he continued to enrich lots of movies in character roles, including his great performance as master poker player Lancey Howard in The
Cincinnati Kid
(opposite Steve McQueen), and as Sol Roth in
Soylent Green
(opposite Charlton Heston). In real life he was a quiet, retiring man, nothing at all like his onscreen persona of a brash tough man brandishing a cigar like a weapon. He was a lifelong collector, and one of the first in Hollywood to collect fine art, and he accumulated a collection worth millions of dollars. The ultimate proof of just how flawed to Motion Picture Academy's methods were over the years is that not only did Edward G. never win an Oscar, he never even was NOMINATED for an Oscar, and yet he gave some of the finest movie performances over, over a span of over 40 years! He passed away in 1973 at the age of 79.
More Info on Edna Best
:
Edna Best was an English actress from the 1920s to the 1940s. Some of her movies include: Tilly of Bloomsbury, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The Iron Curtain. She passed away in 1974 at the age of 74.
More Info on Eddie Albert
:
Eddie Albert was a film and TV actor from the 1930s to the 1990s. He is best remembered for his starring role in TV's "
Green Acres
". He was a proponent of healthy eating and healthy living decades before it became fashionable, and he proved his own theories by remaining youthful, and having a long and productive life, passing away in 2005 at the age of 99. Some of his movies include:
Roman Holiday
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Attack!, The Heartbreak Kid (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and The Longest Day. He passed away in 2005 at the age of 99.
More Info on Albert Basserman
:
Albert Bassermann (7 September 1867 – 15 May 1952) was a German stage and screen actor. He was considered to be one of the greatest German-speaking actors of his generation and received the famous Iffland-Ring. He was married to Elsa Bassermann with whom he frequently performed.
Although his ability to speak English was very limited, he learned lines phonetically with assistance from his wife and found work as a character actor. For his performance as the Dutch statesman Van Meer in Alfred Hitchcock's
Foreign Correspondent
, Bassermann was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in 1940. He returned to Europe in 1946. His final film appearance was in
The Red Shoes
.
More Info on Gene Lockhart
:
Gene Lockhart was a Canadian actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include:
Algiers
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Miracle on 34th Street
, and Carousel. He passed away in 1957 at the age of 65.
More Info on Otto Kruger
:
Otto Kruger was an actor from the 1910s to the 1960s. He seamlessly made the transition from leading man to character actor. Some of his movies include: The Prizefighter and the Lady, The Crime Doctor, Hitler's Children, High Noon, and Sex and the Single Girl. He passed away in 1974 at the age of 89.
More Info on Nigel Bruce
:
Nigel Bruce was a Mexican-born English actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best known as Doctor Watson in the long-running
Sherlock Holmes
movie series opposite
Basil Rathbone
. Some of his other movies include: World For Ransom, Limelight, Rebecca and
Suspicion
. He passed away in 1953 at the age of 58.
More Info on Montagu Love
:
Montagu Love was an English actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: A Damsel in Distress, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and The Sea Hawk. He died in 1943 at the age of 63.
More Info on Hall B. Wallis
:
Harold Brent Wallis (October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing
Casablanca
(1942),
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(1938), and
True Grit
(1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture
Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,
Elvis Presley
, and John Wayne.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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