Newsreel

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A newsreel is a documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed news stories.

Created by Pathé Frères of France in 1908, this form of film was a staple of the typical North American, British, and Commonwealth countries (especially Canada, Australia and New Zealand), and throughout European cinema programming schedule from the silent era until the 1960s when television news broadcasting completely supplanted its role.

In some countries, newsreels generally used music as a background for usually silent on-site film footage. In some countries, the narrator used humorous remarks for light-hearted or non-tragic stories.

An example of a newsreel story is in the film Citizen Kane (which was prepared by RKO's actual newsreel staff), which includes a fictional newsreel that summarizes the life of the title character, Charles Foster Kane.

[edit] Newsreels by country

[edit] Algeria

Actualités Algériennes

[edit] Belgium

Belgavox

[edit] Bulgaria

Kinokronika

[edit] Brazil

Canal 100

[edit] Canada

Associated Screen News
Canada Carries On and World In Action were World War II related newsreels produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Canadian Army Newsreel produced by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, for internal consumption only.

[edit] Czechoslovakia

Československý filmový týdeník

[edit] Germany

[edit] From 1925 to 1930

UFA Wochenschau

[edit] From 1930 to 1933

UFA-Tonwoche
Deulig-Tonwoche
Fox Tönende Wochenschau
Emelka-Tonwoche
Tobis Wochenschau

[edit] Nazi Germany

UFA-Tonwoche (Until 1940)
Die Deutsche Wochenschau – (The German Weekly Newsreel) A reel is housed in the Motion Picture Collection of the Harry S. Truman Library, (MP85-1), and includes historic footage of the Allied landings and combat at Normandy France, July 1944, from the German perspective. The reel was captured by US troops. It is a 16 mm, sound, black and white reel that lasts 16 minutes and 49 seconds.

[edit] German Democratic Republic

Der Augenzeuge
DEFA Wochenschau

[edit] Hungary

Magyar Filmhirado

[edit] India

Indian News Parade

[edit] Ireland

Amharc Eireann

[edit] Italy

Giornale LUCE
Settimana Incom
Ciac

[edit] Japan

[edit] Mozambique

Kuxa Kanema

[edit] Netherlands

Polygoon

[edit] Netherlands Indies

Djawa Hodo (Japanese occupation)
Nampo Hodo (Japanese occupation)
Berita Film di Djawa (Japanese occupation)
Wordende Wereld

[edit] Netherlands New Guinea

Nieuw-Guinea Kroniek

[edit] New Zealand

Weekly Review
Pictorial Parade

[edit] Poland

Polska Agencja Telegraficzna PAT (1927-1945)
Polska Kronika Filmowa (1944-1995)

[edit] Romania

Saptamîna în Imagini

[edit] Spain

No-Do (1943-1981)

[edit] Switzerland

Ciné-Journal Suisse

[edit] United Kingdom

Pathe's Animated Gazette (1910), Weekly
- Pathe Gazette
  - Eve's Film Review
  - British Pathe News
Empire Newsreel
- Empire News Bulletin
Gaumont Graphic
- Around the Town
  - Gaumont Mirror
Topical Budget in 1917 was taken over by the War Office, became War Office Official Topical Budget; eventually Pictorial News.
British Movietone The first British sound newsreel.
Workers' Topical News (1930-31)
The Gen produced by Royal Air Force