Yesterday's Witness(1976)

movie - first aired/released 1976-11-01 - 54 min - audience 7.0

Documentary

Directed by Christian Blackwood

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.