
For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.

Lowell Thomas
Self - Narrator (voice)

Ed Herlihy
Self

Harry von Zell
Self

Jack Shaindlin
Self

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November 1, 1976
54m
7.0
Christian Blackwood
Raymond Fielding
1

Michael Blackwood Productions
N/A

Norman Alley
Self

Max Markman
Self

Joe Gibson
Self
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