Newsreel
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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.
Pathé would eventually merge with RKO...
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.
The most famous newsreel series included:
Newsreels by country
Algeria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
- Associated Screen News
- Canada Carries On and World In Action were World War II related newsreels produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Czechoslovakia
Federal Republic of Germany
- (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 16mm, sound, black and white reel that lasts 16 minutes and 49 seconds.
Hungary
India
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Mozambique
Netherlands
Netherlands Indies
- Djawa Hodo (Japanese occupation)
- Nampo Hodo (Japanese occupation)
- Berita Film di Djawa (Japanese occupation)
- Wordende Wereld
Netherlands New Guinea
New Zealand
Poland
Romania
Spain
Switzerland
United States
- March of Time
- Movietone News (Fox)
- News of the Day (MGM)
- RKO-Pathe
United Kingdom
- Pathe's Animated Gazette (1910), Weekly
- Pathe Gazette
- 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
[[1] (http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/databases/newsreels/history/history.html)], [[2] (http://www.britishpathe.com/)]