If “The March of Time” goes off the air my radio set goes out of the window with a bang that will be heard from Madison, Wis., to the east end of New York’s 42nd Street.

In 509 cinema theatres throughout the land this week (Feb. 1) the editors of TIME present The March of Time, a new form of pictorial reporting. Related to the newsreel as a newsmagazine is related ...

Time marked off the seconds and the seconds became minutes, ... We saw the janitors march and win, and the Lakers play and win. We saw a subway system move achingly forward.