How to Use newsreel in a Sentence

newsreel

noun

• This video from a newsreel shows what the course looked like in 1948.
  — Colin Diltz, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• A newsreel of the crash was broadcast in theaters around the world.
  — Kurt Chandler, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• And doesn’t that Inuit hunter from a 1920s newsreel look like a dead ringer for Fred Armisen?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
• Silent newsreel that has to get your attention in the first few seconds.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 June 2018
• Black-and-white video complete with a voiceover right out of a Movietone newsreel shows the old park in all its glory.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• Along with the interviews is a vast amount of archival video and grainy newsreel footage, much of it harrowing.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The newsreels predate both world wars and the invention of the television.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
• The fight against Ali, which comes well before the halfway mark, is told through a near-seamless blend of newsreels and live action.
  — Peter Hartlaub, kansascity.com, 25 May 2017
• Hitler’s a character too, glimpsed in eerie newsreel footage.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• There was newsreel footage, too, later shown at movie houses across the country.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
• In the midst of the movie business and starting a newsreel company, Harding went after one of L.A.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Dr. George Gey (Reed Birney) explains in a 1950s-style newsreel in the film’s early moments.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• In fact, play all the World War II newsreels backwards, and everyone’s happy.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• For too long, the action mounts with the same stiff delivery as the newsreels that the characters absorb in their local movie house.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• In many locales, a moviegoer might see two features, a cartoon, and a newsreel for one thin dime.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• Marchers were beaten and bloodied by White law enforcement; much of a nation had watched newsreel footage and were aghast.
  — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• As a toddler Carla appeared in a 1939 newsreel showing her being taught to walk the wire by her parents.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
• Anthems tend to carry within their textures a rich whiff of the past, the patina and efficiency of old war footage, the hiss and crackle of the newsreel.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Her lines are reminiscent of World War II–era newsreels, another way the film’s future looks a lot like the past.
  — Christian Lorentzen, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
• That year, he was featured in a Pathé newsreel that spotlighted the autograph album for a full minute.
  — Rebecca Rego Barry, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• One who stood in the rain waiting for the hearse to pass, retired bus driver David Stringer, 82, recalled watching the queen’s coronation on a newsreel as a boy.
  — Jill Lawless and Mike Corder, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2022
• That newsreel, as dumb luck would have it, has been accidentally unravelled and dragged through the dust and mud.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2021
• The newsreel was translated into 22 languages and sent to 64 countries.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
• While bits and pieces of congressional hearings back then had been shown on newsreels, the Kefauver hearings were the first time they were carried live across the country.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
• Read More Oldman spent hours listening to Churchill recordings to nail his cadence and watched old newsreel footage to master his bearing.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2017
• The disaster was the first ever to be captured on film and the first motion picture to go viral after the footage was distributed in newsreels and played in movie theaters all over the world.
  — Erik Larsen, USA TODAY, 4 May 2017
• The first-ever attack ads also appeared in movie theater newsreels.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• The dramatic disaster, which killed more than 30 people, was caught on film and quickly landed in newspapers and newsreels around the world.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2019
• The album opens on a flashback to the sounds of 1950, using actual recordings of BBC radio broadcasts, newsreels of the day and assorted sound effects, from sirens to a baby crying.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
• One of the most interesting things about the Criterion version is the archival material included: excerpts from interviews with Truffaut from the ‘60s, newsreel footage of a screening of the film, and audition footage of its stars.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024