I have to make sure that you aren’t armed…
February 24, 2012
We used to sit in the theatre. Gangs of kids. For 2 movies. Eating popcorn. Drinking pop. Laughing. Sometimes the theatre had a clown. Or a magician. Other times they showed newsreels. From the early 50s. Maybe the late 40s. Black and white.
We’d hoot and holler. Whistle at the babes. If we could whistle. And our favourite was Lowell Thomas.
Maybe it wasn’t exactly like that. But I liked newsreel and so incorporated them into my book The Black Bird based on the John Huston/Humphrey Bogart film, The Maltese Falcon.
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NEWSREEL #12
NARCOSIS therapy for schizo
prenia
use narcotic drugs to per
suade
the patient to sleep.
with an overdose
complete recovery guaranteed.
NEWSREEL #13
logical positivists close their ranks.
new thomists increase scholastic fire.
naturalists & pragmatists under dewey
continue to march.
all kierkegaardians
place in internment camps.
reasons UNKNOWN.
NEWSREEL #14
FRANCE
bodies and parts of bo dies
littered the beach.
eyes startled open mouths
disbelief
gulls landed stealing thoughts
waves rolled in and out
rubbing salt in their wounds.
