newsreel

Definitions

Examples

• Mank ties the reason for Sinclair’s loss to a newsreel played in movie theaters that mixes truth and fiction.

• The first stretch of the film announces Kane’s death and tells the story of his life in the style of a newsreel, the sort that would have played before a feature film in a movie theater, as was common at the time.

• The newsreel footage in Watchers of the Sky follows columns of refugees fleeing war, suitcases and small children in their arms.

• Watch the newsreel below and observe a fabled minute in the life and times of Marty Reisman, who died on Friday at age 81.

• For historical shots, he relied on newsreel footage that he sepia-toned and inserting similar-toned footage of his actors.

• Some of the best newsreel footage was shot by our greatest film directors, John Ford and John Huston.

• This book is more like an early newsreel, with no search for larger historical causes.

• There were newsreel shots of V-1 and V-2 being blasted from their takeoff ramps and a montage of later experimental models.

• One day I entered a motion picture house to view a newsreel of the European battlefields.

• The horror of the struggle, filled with the dead and dying, far surpassed in ferocity any representation of the newsreel.

• Reporters and newsreel cameramen swarmed over my quarters at Grosvenor House.

• I asked him, referring to the flight he had spoken about in the newsreel.