Everything about Newsreel totally explained
A
newsreel is a
documentary film that's 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.
The first official British
news cinema that only showed newsreels was the
Daily Bioscope that opened in
London on 23 May 1909.
In
1929 William Fox purchased a former Broadway theatre called the Embassy. He changed the format from a $2 show twice a day to a continuous 25 cent programme establishing the first newsreel theatre in the USA. The idea was such a success that Fox and his backers announced they'd start a chain of newsreel theatres across the USA. The newsreels were often accompanied by
cartoons or
short subjects.
In some countries, newsreels generally used music as a background for usually silent on-site film footage. In some countries, the narrator used humorous remarks for light-hearted or non-tragic stories.
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,
Charles Foster Kane.
In 1948
NBC launched a 10 minute television programme called
Camel Newsreel Theatre that featured newsreels. Later the show produced their own news film. Newsreel cinemas either closed or went to showing continuous programmes of cartoons and short subjects, such as the
London Victoria Station News Cinema, later Cartoon Cinema that opened in 1933 and closed in 1981.
Newsreels by country
Belgavox
Kinokronika
Canal 100
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.
Československý filmový týdeník
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 German 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.
Der Augenzeuge
DEFA Wochenschau
Welt im Film
Neue Deutsche Wochenschau
Die Zeit unter der Lupe
Blick in die Welt
Welt im Bild
UFA Wochenschau
Fox Tönende Wochenschau
Magyar Filmhirado
Indian News Parade
Amharc Eireann
Giornale LUCE
Settimana Incom
Ciac
Yomiuri
Asahi
Kuxa Kanema
Polygoon
Djawa Hodo (Japanese occupation)
Nampo Hodo (Japanese occupation)
Berita Film di Djawa (Japanese occupation)
Wordende Wereld
Nieuw-Guinea Kroniek
Weekly Review
Pictorial Parade
Filmavisen
Polska Agencja Telegraficzna (Polish Telegraphic Agency) PAT (1927-1945)
Polska Kronika Filmowa (Polish Film Chronicle) (1944-1995)
Saptamîna în Imagini
Kino-Pravda
No-Do (1943-1981)
Ciné-Journal Suisse
Pathe's Animated Gazette (1910), Weekly
The March of Time (Time, Inc.) 1935-1951
Movietone News (20th Century Fox) 1928-1979
News of the Day (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Pathe News 1910-1956
Paramount News (Paramount Pictures)1927-1957
Universal Newsreel (Universal Studios) 1929-1967
U.S. Information Service
Workers Film and Photo League (Communist Party USA) 1920s-1936
Filmske Novosti
Bolivar FilmsFurther Information
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