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A news program shown in cinemas, typically. Pioneered by Pathé in France in 1908 (in the early films/silent era), these were almost always in black and white. Many of them had a propaganda element to them, subtle or blatant. A fictional example of the former: "Soviet troops enter Warsaw. The people of Warsaw cheer the end of Nazi tyranny and the restoration of freedom." To give a fictional example of the latter: "Comrades, the mighty Red Army continues to crush the evil fascists. The brave men of the Rodina have now taken Warsaw and liberated Poland from their evil grip. Casualties were heavy, but the Red Army prevailed." Pretty notorious even in their own day for being flamboyantly censored and emotionally manipulative (edging dangerously close to Documentary of Lies territory in some cases), and for often outright ignoring "troubling" topics in favor of "cute" human-interest stories. The footage recorded for these newsreels is one of the primary audio-visual records of the first half of The 20th Century, especially World War II; the Allies in particular would send each other footage to appear in their respective newsreels. As a result, it will often appear in documentaries (with their counterpart from Nazi Germany, the Wochenschau) and if you watch a lot of them, you will start seeing the same clips turn up a lot. The newsreel faded away in The '50s and The '60s due to the rise of TV network news, and often mocked up in period pieces. The last documented newsreel in the Western world, Polygoon, was screened in The Netherlands in 1987, while Japan's Yomiuri International News ran as late as 1997. Many newsreels archives, particularly from Europe, have been preserved and made publicly available online today. The largest such archive is likely British Pathé, who also preserve Reuters' own archive from the same era. Other good places to explore include British Movietone, the Irish Film Institute Archive, France's Gaumont and Pathé Archive, and Italy's Archivio Luce. See also Propaganda Piece. |
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StarCraft concludes the Brood War Terran campaign with a newsreel, with all the propaganda elements they could fit in. Before all that there was the UNN which was used by the Confederacy/Dominion as a propaganda machine to promote pro-faction news, and to label Sons of Korhal/Raynor as terrorists. |
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TaleSpin: There's one in "From Here to Machinery" showing Shere Khan signing a contract buying new pilot robots. "Whistlestop Jackson, Legend" also features Khan in a newsreel to set up his relationship with the titular character. |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: As with It Happened Here, Part Two of "Storm Front", which takes place in an Alternate Timeline where Nazi Germany is winning World War II, begins with a fake newsreel showing Adolf Hitler touring an occupied New York City. While most of the footage was digitally constructed or altered, there was a piece of actual historical footage included - the Nazi rally in front of a full-body portrait of George Washington uses seldom-seen images of a real rally in 1939 by the German-American Bund. |
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The Simpsons: Decades ago, Abe Simpson and one of his friends watched one showing Springfield as a "City on the Grow". Flash forward to the present time, showing those days of prosperity are over. | |
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The first few episodes of Animaniacs began with a newsreel setting up the Back Story of the Warners. | |
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Just as well, as the first Starship Troopers movie was directed by Paul Verhoeven, who also made RoboCop (1987), a movie series also known for its fake commercials. | |
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The Return of Captain Invincible. Used to show the rise and fall of the eponymous Old Superhero. The first newsreels are blatant propaganda; showing Captain Invincible battling bootleggers, bringing down Nazi divebombers single-handed, and giving inspiring speeches at a Boy Scout camp. However he's then shown being questioned before HUAC and indited for supporting Communism (for fighting on the Russian front during WW2), impersonating a military captain, and wearing his underwear in public. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a newsreel provides Eddie Valiant with a crucial clue in solving the Acme murder. | |
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Used as the intro for Star Wars: The Clone Wars as well as the TV series, sometimes overlapping with Previously on…. It also has a "Thought for the Day", which is related to the episode's Aesop. It actually helps set the tone quite nicely in the case of the TV shows, more so than it does for the movie. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four features one, depicting an Oceania attack on a refugee convoy. Yes, where the story is set. Yes, it even goes as far as to praise it. Yes, a newsreel in The '80s. Possibly justified as the alternate history of 1984 splits from ours at a time when newsreels were still very common. |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes has two newsreels in the episode "Meet Captain America". The first shows how Captain America became a Super-Soldier, then a hero for the Allies. The second plays after Cap becomes a Human Popsicle, and announces that he has fallen in battle. | |
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut features a "March of War" newsreel reporting on the war between the U.S. and Canada and announces Terrence and Phillip's impending execution live at a USO show. | |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): The newsreel that plays before A Midsummer Night's Dream is what forces Diana to face the reality of the wider world she's in and ask about the war Etta has been trying to tell her about, and been furious with her for discrediting and not caring about. | |
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Space Battle Ship Yamato 2199 has Captain Okita watching a newsreel about first contact during one episode. The official story does not quite match the memories of those who were present, especially on the question of who shot first. | |
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In The Rocketeer, Cliff and Jenny see a newsreel that talks about a German zeppelin on a tour of the continental US. | |
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Used occasionally in M*A*S*H, either to place an episode's plot during a specific historical event (clips of the 1952 Helsinki Olympics were used during one episode where the 4077th held their own Olympics) or to hammer home a point on how popular media tended to gloss over the ugliness of war (contrasting the harsh realities of life near the front line with footage of a dance contest or a cat who can play table tennis). | |
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The movie Patton uses them as exposition. Although it was rather obvious that they were just there for exposition, it did fit the time period, as newsreels were common. | |
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Used in the pre-title scene of Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) to introduce the titular WW2 aircraft and its cargo (a shipment of medals, booze, and $50 million in gold). The B&W footage of the aircraft ends with smoke pouring from its engine and the pilot looking out the window in alarm, then it vanishes into the clouds, setting up the contemporary events of the film when the crashed plane is discovered. | |
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The Day of the Triffids has the protagonist first hear about the titular triffids via one of these, which is depicted rather unflatteringly. | |
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A League of Their Own uses the newsreel to promote the AAGPBL. | |
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Old-timey newsreels are apparently still attached to films in the 31st century of Futurama. | |
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Get Smart: In "The Secret of Sam Vittorio", Max and 99 must impersonate a notorious Outlaw Couple from The '30s, and are shown newsreel footage of their exploits. | |
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The Mickey Mouse Club had a newsreel that reported subjects about science, nature, culture and activities involving children, as well as showcasing material related to Disneyland and the Walt Disney Studios. | |
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In the 1966 film It Happened Here (in which Great Britain has been occupied by the Nazis), there is a newsreel showing a revisionist history of British/German relations. Chillingly, it is narrated by a well-known voice-over reader of the war years. | |
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The Incredibles has a newsreel in-between the Time Skip detailing the passing of the Super Registration Act and the supers being forced into civilian identities. | |
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Up opens with young Carl watching a newsreel on explorer Charles Muntz. | |
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JAG: The first 20 seconds of "Port Chicago" begins with an authentic Paramount News Reel. | |
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The Legend of Korra begins every episode with a newsreel recap of the previous events. | |
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In the The Scooby-Doo Show episode "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller", the gang watches a newsreel at the Milo Booth film festival. | |
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Bullets or Ballots: The film opens with a newsreel condemning gangster activity in New York. Fenner and Kruger, two gangsters, actually get to watch actors playing themselves in a newsreel scene where "Kruger" wins acquittal in a trial. Kruger isn't fussed but hot-tempered Fenner is enraged by the newsreel. | |
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The Phenix City Story opens with a 13-minute prologue of real-life reporter Clete Roberts interviewing some of the real-life people portrayed in the film. | |
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Zork: Grand Inquisitor starts with a mock newsreel of the propaganda-heavy variety. (It's entitled "Propaganda on Parade". Subtle.) | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "The Thing Lay Still", there's a scene where Lestat, Claudia and Louis are at a movie theatre while a news update of Adolf Hitler is being projected on the screen. | |
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Private Schulz uses these for exposition purposes during the series, which takes place throughout and after World War II. | |
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Citizen Kane has an early examples of an in-movie fake newsreel. Furthermore, Orson Welles had the company he worked for, RKO Pictures, use their own newsreel department to create it to make it look authentic. | |
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