Black Dahlia Newsreel
From the silent film era right up until the 1960s, newsreels would play before movies, offering audiences a glimpse of events happening around the world. Take a trip into the past, with a newsreel that charts the dark history of Los Angeles, from the Chinese Massacre of 1871 to the infamous Black...
Titanic 1912 Newsreel (original)
Here is one of the original theatre newsreels that was shown to the eager public following the Titanic disaster. Although this footage is labelled up and presented to show the Titanic, the footage vessel shown is Titanic's older sister Olympic and filmed in New York during the summer of 1911....
Battle of Britain Newsreels
Selected newsreels from 1940 and 1941 related to the air defense of Britain. Battle of Britain is the name commonly given to the effort by the German Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion) during...
Newsreel: Battle of the Bulge
American newsreel on Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944 -- 25 January 1945.
Revrilo- Length: 7:58
- Tags: usa france belgium netherlands luxembourg germany allies britain eisenhower bulge
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Tacoma Narrows Newsreel
Newsreel footage from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collpase. She was already known to move up in down in the wind, but in 1940, she began to oscillate due to resonance and would eventually collapse
(Rare!) Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan (1930 Newsreel Footage)
Quite a rare material. Helen Keller, the American author, political activist and lecturer, whom I don't have to explain much about, and her instructor and lifelong companion, Anne Sullivan, appears in a Vitaphone newsreel from 1930. In this footage Sullivan shows the way how Helen Keller learned...
Hindenburg Explodes (1937)
B&W, Silent Good footage of the giant Zeppelin over New York prior to the accident. en.wikipedia.org
Leadbelly Newsreel
This is an excerpt from a 1935 March of Time newsreel (produced by Time magazine) which re-enacts Leadbelly's release from Angola Prison, Louisiana. John Lomax plays himself, and Leadbelly performs 'Goodnight Irene'.
- colujomes
- Length: 3:30
- Tags: Leadbelly folk music blues Lomax newsreels
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Alcatraz Escape News Reel
This Is A News Reel Covering The Disappearance Of Three Alcatraz Inmates In June of 1962. Personally I Think They Became Fish Food. And Why The Escape Of Ralph Roe And Ted Cole Didn't (Doesn't) Get As Much Press Is Beyond Me
Movietone News - 1940s
Newsreels that used to play in movie theatres.
- miscvids818
- Length: 8:59
- Tags: Movietone News 1930s 1940s
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Newsreel - Snowstorm strands dozens on Donner Pass (1952)
Just because you're snowed-in here-and-now doesn't mean you wouldn't have been in similar circumstances there-and-then. I n this case, the passenger train "City of San Francisco" has been stranded in over ten feet of snow after a blizzard within the legendary Donner Pass. The travelers survived...
Rudolf Heß; Russian Victories; Japans Treachery; etc 1941/12/24
The Editors of Universal Newsreel present dramatic highlights of an epochal year. 1) Help For Democracies - America's answer - ships, tanks, guns and planes for the brave actions fighting aggression. As the Arsenal of Democracy, the US delivers the goods!" - scenes include FDR speaking to...
Battle of Cable Street, 1936
News reel footage of the Battle of Cable Street in in 1936 where the Sir Oswald Mosely's Black Shirts were prevented from marching through the East End of London by anti-fascists.
- confrontandresist
- Length: 2:14
- Tags: anti-fascist antifa AFA cable street anarchist communist
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SUMMER 68 - a Newsreel Film - excerpts
a film detailing the organizing leading up to and including the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. the entire film (55min) is now available at www.youtube.com
- jdouglas2006
- Length: 5:3
- Tags: Democratic Convention of 1968 SUMMER 68 Newsreel Film
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