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Yesterday's Witness

  • Documentary

54 minutes

1976-11-01

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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.

Cast

Lowell Thomas

Lowell Thomas

Self - Narrator (voice)
Ed Herlihy

Ed Herlihy

Self
Harry von Zell

Harry von Zell

Self

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