noun
definition
A short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence.
definition
The genre of such films.
Examples of newsreel in a Sentence
Interestingly, a local cinema is showing a newsreel of the funeral of the mayor.
Back in Cork, members of the local flying column are in the cinema watching a silent newsreel.
Their bi-weekly newsreel was normally shown in cinemas and their logo was a cockerel crowing.
The first British sound newsreel was British Movietone News, which began life in June 1929.
Topical Budget was a silent British newsreel that ran for almost twenty years from September 1911 to March 1931.
British Universities newsreel Project access to a database describing around 160,000 newsreel stories from 1910 to 1979.
British Universities newsreel Database - BUND A database of British cinema newsreel production from 1910 to 1979.
They even obtained raw, unedited television newsreel footage of ITN and Thames Television news broadcasts covering his public appearances.
It considers the representation of women in the British propaganda newsreel, Indian News Parade, which ran in India 1943-1946.
Whilst watching the 1948 cinema newsreel, seeing Zatopek winning the gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics inspired him.
His call for a "march of dimes" was a play on "The March of Time," a well-known newsreel series.