newsreel

[nooz-reel, nyooz-]

noun

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

newsreel

/ ˈnjuːzˌriːl /

noun

1. a short film with a commentary presenting current events

Word History and Origins

Origin of newsreel¹

First recorded in 1915–20; news + reel ¹

Example Sentences

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.

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

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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.

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Those same newsreels show well-fed Nazi guards, both men and women, now in allied custody.

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He at times sounds like a newsreel from 1930s Germany, calling his enemies “vermin” and “sick people” and claims immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

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