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Yesterday's Witness - a tribute to the American Newsreel

Yesterday's Witness Released

Yesterday's Witness Released

Documentary
  • 7
  • .
  • 1976
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  • en
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  • US
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  • 54m

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.

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