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Yesterday's Witness

  • November 1976
  • 54mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Christian Blackwood,

    Starring

    Lowell Thomas,

    Ed Herlihy,

    Harry von Zell,

    Norman Alley

    ...

    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.