Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel
director:
Christian Blackwood
playwright:
Raymond Fielding
actor:
Lowell Thomas
/
Ed Herlihy
/
Harry von Zell
/
Jack Shaindlin
/
Norman Alley
…
genre:
Documentary
language:
English
release date:
1976-11-01
(发布日期)
IMDb: tt0328678
overview
For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.