"Newsreel” is an odd word. Once upon a time it was like the smell of napalm in the morning; yet now it stinks of the past and so many old-fashioned attitudes. It was part of the hope that in modern ...

That morning, my boss walked through the lobby and stopped, his eyes on the black-and-white newsreel playing on the television mounted in the corner of the bank where I worked. “Do you know what today ...

The Pathé News company produced newsreels on events and places both important and strange for the greater part of the 20th century. That footage is now housed in the British Pathé archive, a ...

Watch a short newsreel from USC's Movietone collection from 1919 instructing Americans on how to avoid contact with others during the major flu pandemic that killed more than half a million people in ...

A horrifying magnitude 7.9 earthquake hit Japan on September 1, 1923, killing over 140,000 people. And while news of the devastation reached newspapers around the world by the next day, there was no ...

The newly discovered and revelatory 4½-minute newsreel of the infamous 1919 World Series between the Reds and Chicago Black Sox has taken a most unusual route to public awareness. Unearthed in the ...

Get a compelling long read and must-have lifestyle tips in your inbox every Sunday morning — great with coffee! From 1910 until 1970, the U.K.-based Pathé News produced newsreels and documentaries on ...

Before television, there was the newsreel. From the late 1920s to the mid-1960s, the major American sound newsreel companies filmed just about any person, thing or event they thought might attract an ...

In Hollywood one evening last December Sidney & Doris Preisler went to the cinema. They had been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light ...

Cubans line up to have their passports stamped at the Peruvian Embassy. In 1959, Fidel Castro created the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Culture (Spanish acronym: I.C.A.I.C.), the agency ...