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Journalism

This is a research guide for Journalism, Television News, Women in Journalism, War Journalism, Fake news and Alternative Media.
  • Introduction
  • Books
  • Finding articles & journal titles
  • Fake news
    • Media literacy
  • Types of journalism
    • Investigative journalism
    • Photojournalism
    • Sports journalism
    • Warfare and journalism
  • Newsreels
  • How mass media sees Journalists/Journalism
  • Television news
  • Censorship
  • Ethnicity and journalism
  • Women and journalism
  • Alternative media
  • Future of Media
  • Internet resources
  • Managing citations
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Internet source(s) for newsreels

  • Associated Press logo
    AP Archive
    • Video
    AP Archive offers footage from a number of important television news agency collections that are owned by AP Television News.
  • British Movietone on YouTube
    • Video
    Discover British Movietone’s newsreel archive, which contains many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky, via this channel.
  • British Pathé
    • Link
    The English company's archive of newsreels are available online for viewing and purchase. The archive's dates from 1896 to 1976.
  • Sherman Grinberg Film Library logo
    Sherman Grinberg Film Library
    • Link
    The Film Library has more than 20 million feet of classic 35mm B&W film with content dating mostly from 1895 to 1957, just before the television era began. The archive includes the historic Paramount Newsreels, first called Eyes of the World (silent era) and later Eyes and Ears of the World (the “talkies”). It also includes the entire American Pathé newsreel library, which is America’s oldest collection (1895-1956), ...
  • Internet Archive logo
    Universal Newsreels from the Internet Archive
    • Video
    • Open Access Icon
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    In the pre-TV era, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theaters. Newsreels were shown before every feature film and in dedicated newsreel theaters located in large cities. Universal Newsreel, produced from 1929 to 1967, was released twice a week. Each issue contained six or seven short stories, usually one to two minutes in length, covering world events, politics, sports, fashion, and whatever else might entertain the movie audience.

In the Library's Collections

You can use the subject headings below to find resources in the online catalog and the Library's collections.

  • newsreels
    This subject search in the catalog finds books about newsreels.
  • newsreels
    This search for "newsreels" finds all the videos we have in our collections.
  • motion picture journalism
  • actualities (motion pictures)

Streaming newsreels from our collections

  • Resource logoUnited newsreels by United Newsreel Corporation
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Streaming video
    This resource covers 1942 through 1946.
  • Resource logoUniversal newsreels, 1929-1967 by Alexander Street Press
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Streaming video
    In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. These discs cover American and world events from 1929 through 1967.
  • Resource logoVideofashion by Videofashion Network
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Videofashion is the world’s premiere fashion video producer and supplier. Videofashion’s archive is a veritable time capsule documenting the art and industry of fashion from 1976 to present day.
  • Resource logoVideofashion collections by Videofashion Network
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    Videofashion Collections presented by Videofashion Daily is a front row seat to the creative genius of New York, London, Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks that set the fashion trends for Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. Videofashion Collections delivers comprehensive and rapid coverage of each major fashion show, complete with extensive and unparalleled VIP access to, and interviews with: designers, fashion editors, makeup artists, models, fashion luminaries, and celebrities. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artThe American newsreel: a complete history, 1911-1967 by Raymond Fielding
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4888 .M6 F5 2006
    ISBN: 9780786426348
    For the first fifty years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. These short segments released twice a week and lasting only about ten minutes, contained a potpourri of news footage representing a unique combination of journalism and entertainment. With the advent of television news programs following World War II, newsreels became obsolete though they did not die immediately. These shorts remain the first instances of moving image photographic journalism and for over five decades proved a unique and influential source of information and misinformation for generations of American moviegoers. ...
  • Cover artCounter-archive: film, the everyday, and Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète by Paula Amad
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780231135016
    Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. ...
  • Cover artThe lost world of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on film by Patrick Russell; Simon Popple; Vanessa Toulmin, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .G7 L58 2004
    ISBN: 9781844570461
    The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon contains essays from leading historians covering film history, popular entertainment, the seaside, transport and the social and economic context of Edwardian Britain. Together they provide a vivid commentary on the Peter Worden Mitchell and Kenyon collection of films.
  • Cover ArtNews parade: the American newsreel and the world as spectacle by Joseph Clark
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781517903688
    A fascinating look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel When weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized "indisputable evidence" of the news. News Parade examines the history of the newsreel and how it changed the way Americans saw the world. ...
  • Cover artProjected history: a catalog of the national stories produced by Universal Newsreel by Phillip W. Stewart, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 5167 .M68 S74 2008 v.1-3
    ISBN: 9780979324383
    Projected History: A Catalog of the U.S. National Stories Released by Universal Newsreel, Volume I, 1929-1930 is a new book that will interest students of history, film and genealogy. This well-researched landmark work details over 1275 nationally released newsreel titles that covered the first two years of what was known back then as the Universal Newspaper Newsreel. ...
  • Cover ArtRediscovering U.S. newsfilm: cinema, television, and the archive by Mark Garrett Cooper; Sara Beth Levavy; Ross Melnick; Mark Williams, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4888 .M6 R43 2018
    ISBN: 9781138699458
    The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format's inherent intermediality; its mediation of "events" for local, national, and transnational communities; its distinctive archival legacies; and, consequently, its integral place in film and television studies more broadly. ...
  • Cover artYesterday's news: the British cinema newsreel reader by Luke McKernan
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 5124 .M68 Y4 2002
    ISBN: 9780901299734
    Yesterday's News is a collection of over forty contemporary and recent articles on newsreel history, presented chronologically, from the early years of the newsreels in the 1910s to their recent revival as the subject of academic research and a key source for historical documentaries. The book covers the filming of two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the rise of television news, and censorship, propaganda and political bias in the news. ...

Selected Newsreel titles

These are newreels that we have access to or are in our collections.

  • Classic Fidel Castro newsreels by Quality Information Publishers
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #6311
    This compilation of newsreel footage opens with a young Fidel Castro as he assumes power of Cuba in January of 1959 and continues on through the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
  • Jornal Português: Revista Mensal de Actualidades, 1938-1951 by Museu do Cinema
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #22336
    The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the Portuguese Newsreel Society (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime. Screened in cinema theatres prior to the main feature film, each issue of Jornal ran approximately ten minutes in length and covered a variety of official government acts, national political news, major sports events and other assorted social and cultural affairs. ...
  • Kino-eye by Dziga Vertov
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #259
    Kino-eye is a collection of excerpts from newsreels and documentary films of Soviet life in the early 1920s made by Vertov and his Kino-Eye group. ...
  • News Magazine of the Screen newsreels, Vol. 1, 1949-1951 by Warner-Pathe
    • DVD
    Call Number: Jones Media DVD #10420 v.1
    In the age before television, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theater, in the newsreels that were shown with every feature film. This disc covers American and world events from 1949 through 1951. There are 2 additional volumes.
  • Cover artNO-DO: el tiempo y la memoria by Rafael R. Tranche, guión y dirección
    Call Number: Jones Media video tape #5107
    ISBN: 9788437618555
    Original newsreel footage from official news agency of Spain, Noticiario Español, or NO-DO, between 1943 and 1981.
  • The salt of the earth: a journey with Sebastião Salgado by Wenders, Wim
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming video
    For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet's beauty.
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