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Newsreel

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Work that contains a variety of news footage, ranging in content from lifestyles to international events. Newsreels typically had a duration of about ten minutes in length and were released twice weekly to theaters in the United States from 1911-1967. Examples: FOX MOVIETONE NEWS; HEARST METROTONE NEWS; THE MARCH OF TIME; PARAMOUNT NEWS; PATHE'S WEEKLY.

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