newsreel
[nooz-reel, nyooz-]
- a short motion picture presenting current or recent events.
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Origin of newsreel
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Contemporary Examples
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.
The Wonderful ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn:’ Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, and the HBO MovieAllen Barra
May 28, 2012
Historical Examples
I asked him, referring to the flight he had spoken about in the newsreel.
Test PilotDavid Goodger (goodger@python.org)
One feature picture, one newsreel and one animated cartoon later, they walked past the plant again.
The Knack of ManagingLewis K. Urquhart and Herbert Watson
There were newsreel shots of V-1 and V-2 being blasted from their takeoff ramps and a montage of later experimental models.
The Old Die RichHorace Leonard Gold
One day I entered a motion picture house to view a newsreel of the European battlefields.
Autobiography of a YOGIParamhansa Yogananda
The horror of the struggle, filled with the dead and dying, far surpassed in ferocity any representation of the newsreel.
Autobiography of a YOGIParamhansa Yogananda
newsreel
- a short film with a commentary presenting current events
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Word Origin and History for newsreel
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