Yesterday's Witness: A Tribute to the American Newsreel (1975)
- Original title
- Yesterday's Witness
- Directed by
- Christian Blackwood
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 54 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This documentary looks at the history of American newsreels that played in movie theaters for over 50 years. It explains how they informed and misinformed audiences before being replaced by television news.
educationalnostalgicinformativereflectivehistoricalsoberretrospective
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