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news·reel

 (no͞oz′rēl′, nyo͞oz′-)
n.
A short film dealing with recent or current events.
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newsreel

(ˈnjuːzˌriːl)
n
(Broadcasting) a short film with a commentary presenting current events
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news•reel

(ˈnuzˌril, ˈnyuz-)

n.
a short motion picture presenting current or recent events.
[1915–20]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.newsreel - a short film and commentary about current eventsnewsreel - a short film and commentary about current events
short subject - a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature
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Translations

newsreel

[ˈnjuːzriːl] Nnoticiario m, documental m de actualidadesNodo m (Sp)
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newsreel

[ˈnjuːzriːl] nactualités fpl filmées
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newsreel

[ˈnjuːzˌriːl] ncinegiornale m
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References in periodicals archive ?
Narrated by Mike Jones, White Thunder's chronicle contains Frissell's diary entries and letters, as well as interviews with film historian Kevin Brownlow, many of Frissell's relatives, and snippets of radio and newsreel interviews with surviving cast and crew of The Viking.
We understood why after we caught a glimpse of the Russian in a newsreel. We know that if we had been matched against that 300-lb.
Powerfully moved, they decided then and there to make a full-length documentary--the film that became The Brandon Teena Story, the newsreel counterpart to the Oscar-nominated drama Boys Don't Cry.
Femmes Aux Yeux Ouvert (Women With Open Eyes) (California Newsreel, 1994; 52 min.) Award-winning film.
Documentary produced by Stanley Nelson for California Newsreel (1998); 86 minutes
With similar irony, one of the late 1919 Newsreels, otherwise highlighting socialist-oriented journalistic clippings concerning the demand for "freedom of speech" and protection from "domination and exploitation," quotes a song about "that tattooed French Lady" in which woman is celebrated as symbolic object, in this case a personified map: "what I loved best was across her chest/My home in Tennessee." Especially pointed is the final entry of this Newsreel (XXXVII, 396).
"The French people don't like me [because] when I bought Pathe-France, it came with a politically sensitive newsreel library.
We could hardly wait until the following Saturday morning when we could see the action on a newsreel at the Workmen's Hall.
The study demonstrates how the trial movies relied on actual courtroom proceedings and also discusses techniques used in these films, such as newsreel footage, newsreel style, and flashbacks.
The United 1967-See Inevitably, the rise of televi-sion in the 1950s and beyond meant the newsreels' days were numbered, and the last Pathe newsreel was produced in 1970.