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Revision as of 01:42, 6 June 2006
A newsreel is a documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed news stories.
Created by Pathé Frères of France in 1908, this form of film was a staple of the typical North American, British, and Commonwealth countries (especially Canada, Australia and New Zealand), and throughout European cinema programming schedule from the silent era until the 1960s when television news broadcasting completely supplanted its role.
An example of a newsreel story is in the film Citizen Kane (which was prepared by RKO's actual newsreel staff), which includes a fictional newsreel that summarizes the life of the title character.
Newsreels by country
- Associated Screen News
- Canada Carries On and World In Action were World War II related newsreels produced by the National Film Board of Canada
- Canadian Army Newsreel produced by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, for internal consumption only.
From 1925 to 1930
- UFA Wochenschau
From 1930 to 1933
- UFA-Tonwoche
- Deulig-Tonwoche
- Fox Tönende Wochenschau
- Emelka-Tonwoche
- Tobis Wochenschau
- UFA-Tonwoche (Until 1940)
- Die Deutsche Wochenschau – (The German Weekly Newsreel) A reel is housed in the Motion Picture Collection of the Harry S. Truman Library, (MP85-1), and includes historic footage of the Allied landings and combat at Normandy France, July 1944, from the Nazi perspective. The reel was captured by US troops. It is a 16 mm, sound, black and white reel that lasts 16 minutes and 49 seconds.
- Djawa Hodo (Japanese occupation)
- Nampo Hodo (Japanese occupation)
- Berita Film di Djawa (Japanese occupation)
- Wordende Wereld
- The March of Time (Time, Inc.)
- Movietone News (20th Century Fox)
- News of the Day (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
- Pathe's Animated Gazette (1910), Weekly
- Pathe Gazette
- Empire Newsreel
- Gaumont Graphic
- Topical Budget in 1917 was taken over by the War Office, became War Office Official Topical Budget; eventually Pictorial News.
- British Movietone The first British sound newsreel.
- Workers' Topical News (1930-31)
- The Gen produced by Royal Air Force
External links for British newsreels
External links for German newsreels