Dziga Vertov was central to the Soviet Kino-Pravda ( literally, " cinematic truth ") newsreel series of the 1920s.

Frank Capra's Why We Fight ( 1942 – 1944 ) series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U. S. public that it was time to go to war.

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

Here, the important man was Charles Magnusson, a newsreel cameraman for the Svenskabiografteatern cinema chain.

The 1983 Woody Allen film Zelig was an elaborate mix of real newsreel footage from the 1930s and fake footage mixed together with fake interviews with real actors playing themselves as well as actors playing roles to tell the story of the Allen character and presented as a documentary.

The result was a variety show for children, with such regular features as a newsreel, a cartoon, and a serial, as well as music, talent and comedy segments.

To achieve a tone and quality that was true to the story as well as reflected the period in which it is set, Spielberg once again collaborated with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, saying, " Early on, we both knew that we did not want this to look like a Technicolor extravaganza about World War II, but more like color newsreel footage from the 1940s, which is very desaturated and low-tech.

Not only was it the first campaign to be heavily covered by the press and to receive widespread newsreel coverage, but it was also the first modern campaign to use the power of Hollywood and Broadway stars, who travelled to Marion for photo opportunities with Harding and his wife.

In June, a Fox sound newsreel depicting his return welcomes in New York and Washington, D. C., was shown.

The newsreel was edited to show the ground crew shot prior to the fire with an explosion sound effect as if the ship was exploding while the camera was focused to the ground.

Although the explosion sound in the newsreel was simulated, the actual recorded audio can be heard, including someone saying " you're alright now Al!

One scene, of passengers looking out of the windows, was taken from Universal's 1936 newsreel of one of the Hindenburg's previous transatlantic crossings.

It is possible this footage was taken by Navy Personnel on the scene or a second cameraman for one of the newsreel teams.

The newsreel was produced by Paramount Pictures for their Paramount News series.

The borough town hall on Haverstock Hill, which was also the location of the Register Office, can be seen in newsreel footage of many celebrity civil marriages.

A newsreel was a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, regularly released in a public presentation place and containing filmed news stories and items of topical interest.

The idea was such a success that Fox and his backers announced they would start a chain of newsreel theaters across the USA.

An example of a newsreel story is in the film Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), which was prepared by RKO's actual newsreel staff.

The limited set of rolling pages shown on Pages from Ceefax ( referred to as a " newsreel ") was also accessible at any time of day via Ceefax page 152 ( BBC Two only ) on any analogue teletext television.

The Hearst newsreel series Hearst Metrotone News ( 1914 – 1967 ) was released as International Newsreel from January 1919 to July 1929.

The newsreel tradition is important in documentary film ; newsreels were also sometimes staged but were usually re-enactments of events that had already happened, not attempts to steer events as they were in the process of happening.

In 1919, Vertov compiled newsreel footage for his documentary Anniversary of the Revolution ; in 1921 he compiled History of the Civil War.

The 1994 Tom Hanks film Forrest Gump while not presented as a documentary of a real character, does contain several sequences that feature the Hanks character inserted into archival newsreel footage of John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Apollo 11 astronauts, and others, to realistic effect.

Historical newsreel footage of Chevalier appeared in the Marcel Ophüls documentary The Sorrow and the Pity.

King: A Filmed Record ... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity narrators, including Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones, Clarence Williams III, Burt Lancaster, Ben Gazzara, Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte,

He also hosted The Twentieth Century, a documentary series about important historical events of the century comprised almost exclusively of newsreel footage and interviews.

Eyewitness testimony ( as given by a newsreel report featured in the 1982 documentary film The Atomic Cafe ) describes the circumstances of the Rosenbergs ' death, noting that while Julius Rosenberg died after the first electric shock, his wife did not.

He also accepted a commission from the CBS Television network to compose a theme for their newsreel and documentary film series The Twentieth Century ( 1957 – 1966 ), narrated by Walter Cronkite.

Laval and Pétain in Frank Capra documentary film Divide and Conquer ( newsreel ) | Divide and Conquer ( 1943 )

Some movies were shown in newsreel theaters, especially after the Film Law of 1939 promoted documentary and other educational films.

In 1936, Husing narrated " Catching Trouble ," a Paramount non-sports newsreel documentary that would gain later prominence as a short subject on Mystery Science Theater 3000, during which the MST3K characters would parody Husing's distinctive delivery.

His only appearance in cinema during that time was in F For Fake, Orson Welles ' documentary on hoaxes, when 20th Century-Fox mistakenly sent Welles newsreel footage of Ameche misidentified as footage of Howard Hughes.

In the ' old days ,' ( 1930 – 1960 ), when you ' went to the movies ' you'd see a short subject ( a newsreel, short documentary, a " 2-reeler ," etc.

This action was memorialised in the newsreel documentary Kokoda Front Line !, filmed by cameraman Damien Parer, which won Australia's first Academy Award for its director Ken G. Hall in 1942.

Kretzmer began his professional career writing documentary films and the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel.

The series mixes three different strands: a new monologue by Kneale in which he discusses the genesis and development of the Quatermass serials and their main character ; archival material from the television productions, and from documentary and newsreel coverage of key events of the times in which they were made, such as the Cold War, the advent of nuclear weapons and the embryonic Space Race ; and the dramatised strand, in which the Professor discloses his reasons for reclusion and discusses his demons with a persistent reporter who invades his hermitage ( and ultimately becomes his friend ).

Frankie Laine also covered the song as part of the musical documentary All This and World War II, which featured stock and newsreel footage of the Second World War set to performances of music by The Beatles.

It was believed that the actual film stock was put together out of many different disparate bits, giving the film its iconic documentary or newsreel style.

* The Battle of Manila-a 1959 documentary with newsreel footages on YouTube

Principally non-fiction, the Archive's collection to date includes some 32, 000 items comprising documentary, newsreel, shorts, educational, advertising and promotional films, amateur and professional productions.

An essay on the gradual destruction of Siberia's culture and individuality, the film combines footage that Marker shot in Siberia, old newsreel footage, cartoons, stills and, at one point, an illustration of Alfred E. Neuman from Mad Magazine, all accompanied by Marker's signature commentary, which takes the form of a letter from the director to his audience.

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

The completed film ultimately benefited from the decision, as film historian Joseph Maddrey describes the black-and-white filming as " guerrilla-style ", resembling " the unflinching authority of a wartime newsreel ".

* Divide and Conquer ( newsreel ), the third of the Why We Fight World War II propaganda film series

Newspaper ad from a fully equipped theater in Tacoma, Washington, showing The Jazz Singer ( 1927 film ) | The Jazz Singer, on Vitaphone, and a Fox newsreel, on Movietone sound system | Movietone, together on the same bill.

Most use film, video, clips and still images from a variety of sources: American and Japanese science fiction movies of the 1950s, old newsreel footage, more modern TV news and cable show clips, atomic bomb test footage, old civil defense films, silent movie footage, 1950s social etiquette films, industrial films, clips from their various SubGenius events, self-created footage, and fan clips.

One well-known newsreel found on the internet is a silent film with Pathe footage of the first 1936 landing at Lakehurst and Hearst News of the Day Newsreel footage of the disaster, called a " Pathegram " by Eugene Castle of Castle Films.

At one point he invited the royal family to the set and newsreel footage of their visit proved to be good publicity for the film.

Despite legal ramifications preventing the use of actual names, the studio aimed for an " aura of authenticity ", and Hal Wallis initially recommended eliminating credits to give the film " the appearance of a newsreel.

Vice President Charles Curtis is shown in newsreel footage of the 1931 Kentucky Derby included in the film.

The " newsreel " footage shown in the local cinema contains scenes from the 1969 film Battle of Britain.

The film covers the beginnings of the era of nuclear warfare, created from a broad range of archival film from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s-including newsreel clips, television news footage, U. S. government-produced films ( including military training films ), advertisements, television and radio programs.

This along with the newsreel and commercial stock footage that comprises the other 25 % of the film ( along with the music royalties ) represents the bulk of the trio ’ s expenditures.

A 1978 Australian film, Newsfront, is a drama about the newsreel business.