newsreel
Sign in to save200px|thumb|"Showdown in Vietnam", a February 8, 1965, war propaganda newsreel by Universal Newsreel, with narration by [[Ed Herlihy.]]
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- short film
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- British newsreels
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200px|thumb|"Showdown in Vietnam", a February 8, 1965, war propaganda newsreel by Universal Newsreel, with narration by [[Ed Herlihy.]]
A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, information, and entertainment for millions of moviegoers. Newsreels were typically exhibited preceding a feature film, but there were also dedicated newsreel theaters in many major cities in the 1930s and ’40s, and some large city cinemas also included a smaller theaterette where newsreels were screened continuously throughout the day.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “newsreel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.