Corporation for Entertainment and Learning The reel world of news
Film
The newsreels informed and entertained American audiences from 1911 till 1967. They were originally made by movie studios as a ten-minute warm-up for the main feature. They showed a variety of items. Bill Moyers interviews journalists and camera men and shows a sample of the highlights, until television made this medium redundant. In the newsreels the camera men were all powerful, sound was added later by specially composed pieces, the reporter was not shown on the screen. Apart from the official news, which did usually not show labor unrest or economic misery, a journalist called Leo Seltzer made alternative reports for the labor class. The documentary also shows the discovery of a collection of eight hundred reels in Canada and the ways of preservation.
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