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

Kyiv was in the depths of a frigid winter so monochrome that the scene on the platform could have been an old newsreel, but it was 2022 and happening in a technicolour, digital age.

From BBC

It is accompanied by the first talking newsreel, giving it a box-office boost, and won three Oscars.

From The Wall Street Journal

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