newsreel
newsreel
Definition
☆ news·reel (-rēl′)
noun
a short motion picture of recent news events: formerly shown as part of the program in theaters
newsreel
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- time: On the newsreels of that time most structural damage shown to housing had left this area of the property mostly untouched.
Converse of object
- include: It includes old newsreels, documentaries, as well as home movies.
- see: The initial post-war years saw the newsreels continuing in the style that they knew best.
- show: Interestingly, a local cinema is showing a newsreel of the funeral of the mayor.
- watch: Back in Cork, members of the local flying column are in the cinema watching a silent newsreel.
Adjective modifier
- silent: Back in Cork, members of the local flying column are in the cinema watching a silent newsreel.
- British: Topical Budget was a silent British newsreel that ran for almost twenty years from September 1911 to March 1931.
- old: He lives on, tho, in old newsreels and in the fine photographs taken of him in action by George Monkhouse.
- bi-weekly: Their bi-weekly newsreel was normally shown in cinemas and their logo was a cockerel crowing.
- white: Silent black and white newsreels, for all their visual power, seem somehow less frightening, immediate, offensive than actual audio archives.
- first: The first British sound newsreel was British Movietone News, which began life in June 1929.
Modifies a noun
- cameraman: Not only were there TV cameras but also newsreel cameramen, a feature color unit, sound commentators and still photographers.
- footage: A: There is not a lot of newsreel footage actually.
- clip: Well for the next three years you can download short newsreel clips from their website.
- film: The final examples from the LMS film unit is part of a series of newsreel type films entitled Events of 1937.
- story: British Universities Newsreel Project access to a database describing around 160,000 newsreel stories from 1910 to 1979.
- production: British Universities Newsreel Database - BUND A database of British cinema newsreel production from 1910 to 1979.
Noun used with modifier
- cinema: Whilst watching the 1948 cinema newsreel, seeing Zatopek winning the gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics inspired him.
- television: They even obtained raw, unedited television newsreel footage of ITN and Thames Television news broadcasts covering his public appearances.
- propaganda: It considers the representation of women in the British propaganda newsreel, Indian News Parade, which ran in India 1943-1946.
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