newsreel

American  

[nooz-reel, nyooz-] / ˈnuzˌril, ˈnyuz- /

noun

1. a short motion picture presenting current or recent events.

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newsreel British  

/ ˈnjuːzˌriːl /

noun

1. a short film with a commentary presenting current events

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Etymology

Origin of newsreel

First recorded in 1915–20; news + reel ¹

Example Sentences

Listening to a Japanese newsreel describe him as a villain referred to only as “the American,” you realize that “Marty Supreme” is more than a caricature of Reisman.

From Los Angeles Times

Eisenstein asserted that the film “looks like a newsreel of an event, but it functions as a drama.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I listened to war news with my family on the radio, watched newsreels about the war at the movies and went to many movies with war settings.

From The Wall Street Journal

There they were edited, and the film distributed for propaganda or newsreels.

From BBC

The movie’s square-framed cinematography, too, reminiscent of a staged newsreel, is another subtle touch — one imagines Panh rejecting widescreen as only feeding this evil regime’s view of its own righteous grandiosity.

From Los Angeles Times