“Entitled The March of Time, this monthly film series offered a new and distinctive kind of screen journalism, a cross between the newsreel and the documentary. Sponsored by Time-Life-Fortune, Inc., headed by Henry Luce, […] Louis de Rochemont became the principal creator of the film series. […] It had the most substantial and sustained success of any documentary-like material prior to television. At its peak, in the late 1930s and the years of World War II, it was seen in the U.S. alone by over twenty million people a month in 9,000 theatres. […] Though originated by a conservative organization, the MOT was identified with a liberal stance, […]. Internationally, while the newsreels avoided controversial political and military developments, MOT tackled the machinations of Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Tojo”. (Jack C. Ellis, The Documentary Idea, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1989)