List of newsreels by country
Encyclopedia
Canada
- Associated Screen News of CanadaAssociated Screen News of CanadaThe Associated Screen News of Canada was incorporated in 1920 by the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal. Ben Norrish, who formerly worked for the Canadian Government Motion Picture Board, was appointed as the head of ASN. In the period of 1920 to 1958, ASN produced the majority of newsreels,...
- Canada Carries OnCanada Carries OnCanada Carries On was a series of short films by the National Film Board of Canada, which ran from 1940 to 1959. The series was initially created as morale boosting propaganda films during World War II...
and World In Action were World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
related newsreels produced by the National Film Board of CanadaNational Film Board of CanadaThe National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions... - Canadian Army Newsreel produced by the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit, for internal consumption only.
France
- Gaumont-actualitésGaumont Film CompanyGaumont Film Company is a French film production company founded in 1895 by the engineer-turned-inventor, Léon Gaumont . Gaumont is the oldest continously operating film company in the world....
- Pathé-JournalPathéPathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...
- Éclair-Journal
- Actualités françaises
From 1930 to 1933
- UFA-Tonwoche
- Deulig-Tonwoche
- Fox Tönende Wochenschau
- Emelka-Tonwoche
- Tobis Wochenschau
Nazi Germany
- UFA-Tonwoche (Until 1940)
- Die Deutsche WochenschauDie Deutsche WochenschauDie Deutsche Wochenschau is a series of German newsreels from 1940 until the end of World War II.After the invasion of Poland , the Nazis consolidated four separate newsreel production efforts into one...
– (The German Weekly Newsreel) A reel is housed in the Motion Picture Collection of the Harry S. Truman Library, (MP85-1), and includes historic footage of the Allied landings and combat at NormandyNormandyNormandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...
FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, July 1944, from the German perspective. The reel was captured by US troops. It is a 16 mm, sound, black and white reel that lasts 16 minutes and 49 seconds.
Federal Republic of Germany
- Welt im Film
- Neue Deutsche Wochenschau
- Die Zeit unter der Lupe
- Blick in die Welt
- Welt im Bild
- UFA Wochenschau
- Fox Tönende Wochenschau
Netherlands Indies
- Djawa Hodo (Japanese occupation)
- Nampo Hodo (Japanese occupation)
- Berita Film di Djawa (Japanese occupation)
- Wordende Wereld
Poland
- Polska Agencja Telegraficzna (Polish Telegraphic AgencyPolish Telegraphic AgencyPolish Telegraphic Agency was a Polish state-owned news agency established in 1918. As the only such agency in Poland at the time it was the official supplier of news on Poland both for the Polish press and foreign media . Since 1927 the PAT also issued a weekly newsreel...
) PAT (1927-1945) - Polska Kronika Filmowa (Polish Film ChroniclePolish Film ChroniclePolish Film Chronicle was a 10-minute length newsreel shown in Polish cinemas prior to the main film. It continued the traditions of the pre-war Polish Telegraphic Agency. During communist times it was often used as propaganda tool....
) (1944-1995)
Romania
- Carpathia Jurnal (1931 - ?)
- Jurnal sonor (1937-8? - 1941)
- Jurnal de război (1941 - 1942)
- Jurnalul cinema ONC-UFA (1942 - 1944?)
- Jurnalul militar (1948)
- Jurnalul de actualităţi (post WWII)
- Săptămîna în imagini
Soviet Union
- Cinema Week (1918-1920)
- Kino-PravdaKino-PravdaKino-Pravda was a newsreel series by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman.Working mainly during the 1920s, Vertov promoted the concept of kino-pravda, or film-truth, through his newsreel series. His driving vision was to capture fragments of actuality which, when organized...
(1922-1925)
United Kingdom
- Pathe's Animated Gazette (1910), Weekly
- Pathe Gazette
- Eve's Film Review
- British Pathe News
- Pathe Gazette
- Empire Newsreel
- Empire News Bulletin
- Gaumont Graphic
- Around the Town
- Gaumont Mirror
- Around the Town
- Topical Budget in 1917 was taken over by the War Office, became War Office Official Topical Budget; eventually Pictorial News.
- British MovietoneMovietone NewsMovietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States, and from 1929 to 1979 in the United Kingdom.-History:It is known in the U.S. as Fox Movietone News, produced cinema, sound newsreels from 1928 to 1963 in the U.S., from 1929 to 1979 in the UK , and from 1929 to 1975 in...
The first British sound newsreel, and the last (1929-1979). - Workers' Topical News (1930-31)
- Worker's Week-End (1943)
- The Gen produced by Royal Air Force
- BBC Television NewsreelTelevision NewsreelTelevision Newsreel was a British television programme, the first regular news programme to be made in the UK. Produced by the BBC and screened on the BBC Television Service from 1948 to 1954 at 7.30pm, it adapted the traditional cinema newsreel form for the television audience, covering news and...
(1948-1954)
United States
- Columbia Pictures' Newsreel (Columbia PicturesColumbia PicturesColumbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...
) 1931-1972 - International Newsreels
- The March of TimeThe March of TimeThe March of Time is a radio series, and companion newsreel series, that was broadcast on CBS from 1931 to 1945 and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951. It was created by Time, Inc. executive Roy Edward Larsen, and was produced and written by Louis de Rochemont and his brother Richard de...
(Warner Bros.Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
/Time, Inc.) 1935-1951 - Movietone NewsMovietone NewsMovietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States, and from 1929 to 1979 in the United Kingdom.-History:It is known in the U.S. as Fox Movietone News, produced cinema, sound newsreels from 1928 to 1963 in the U.S., from 1929 to 1979 in the UK , and from 1929 to 1975 in...
(20th Century Fox20th Century FoxTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
) 1928-1963 - News of the Day (Metro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
) 1930-1974 - Pathe NewsPathe NewsPathé Newsreels were produced from 1910 until the 1970s, when production of newsreels was in general stopped. Pathé News today is known as British Pathé and its archive of over 90,000 reels is fully digitised and online.-History:...
1910-1956- RKO-Pathé (RKO PicturesRKO PicturesRKO Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chains and Joseph P...
/PathéPathéPathé or Pathé Frères is the name of various French businesses founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France.-History:...
) - Warner-Pathé (Warner Brothers Studios/Pathé)
- RKO-Pathé (RKO Pictures
- Paramount NewsParamount NewsParamount News is the name on the newsreels produced by Paramount Pictures .-History:The Paramount Newsreel began operation in 1927 and distributed roughly two movie theater issues per week until their closing in 1957. Movie theaters across the country would run these issues, usually on 35mm...
(Paramount PicturesParamount PicturesParamount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...
) 1925-1957 - Universal NewsreelUniversal NewsreelUniversal Newsreel was a series of 7- to 10-minute newsreels that were released twice a week between 1929 and 1967 by Universal Studios. A Universal publicity official, Sam B. Jacobson, was involved in originating and producing the newsreels...
(Universal StudiosUniversal StudiosUniversal Pictures , a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, is one of the six major movie studios....
) 1929-1967 - U.S. Information Service
- Workers Film and Photo LeagueWorkers Film and Photo LeagueThe Workers Film and Photo League was an organization of filmmakers in the United States initially affiliated with the Workers International Relief...
(Communist Party USACommunist Party USAThe Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....
) 1920s-1936