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Yesterday's Witness

Nov 01, 1976 | IMDB 0

54 min Watch Now

Documentary

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.

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

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