Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 29, 1940

The Ramparts We Watch is MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature. Its name, and nothing else, comes from Major George Fielding Eliot's treatise on U. S. defense. In form it is the fullest flowering of two arts: the newsreel and MARCH OF TIME'S five-year-old discovery that people act like people, that the truest recreation of human beings is to be had by picturing people in the roles they play in life.

The story told by The Ramparts We Watch is that of a U. S. town and the people in it from 1914-1918. It shows...

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