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newsreel

[ nooz-reel, nyooz- ]

noun

  1. a short motion picture presenting current or recent events.


newsreel

/ ˈːˌː /

noun

  1. a short film with a commentary presenting current events
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of newsreel1

First recorded in 1915–20; news + reel 1
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Those same newsreels show well-fed Nazi guards, both men and women, now in allied custody.

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He at times sounds like a newsreel from 1930s Germany, calling his enemies “vermin” and “sick people” and claims immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

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We tend to think of Hitler's speeches, as presented and preserved in newsreels and documentaries, as spit-splattering rants, brimming with hatred and mendacity.

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Burstein amply and nimbly illustrates the conversation with film clips, newsreel footage, photographs and interviews.

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A wealth of archival film and newsreel footage, home movies and snapshots — and, for context, new footage of tape recorders, ash trays and martini glasses — provide marvelous illustration of Taylor’s work and world.

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