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

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

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

From BBC

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.”

From Los Angeles Times