Yesterday's Witness

(1976)

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Genres: Documentary

Year: 1976

Runtime: 54 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Christian Blackwood

Cast: Lowell Thomas, Ed Herlihy, Harry von Zell, Jack Shaindlin, Norman Alley, Max Markman, Joe Gibson

Plot

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.