Movie details

Yesterday's Witness(1976)

Name: Yesterday's Witness
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1976-11-01
Duration: 54 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Lowell Thomas, Ed Herlihy, Harry von Zell, Jack Shaindlin, Norman Alley

a tribute to the American Newsreel

Documentary

Status: Released
Release date: 1976-11-01
Runtime: 54m
Rating: 7.0 / 10 (1 votes)
Original language: en
Certification: -
Budget: -
Revenue: -
Popularity: 1
Adult content: No

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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.