newsreel footage

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meaningsofnewsreelandfootage

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newsreel
noun[C]
uk
/ˈnjuːz.riːl/us
/ˈnuːz.riːl/
a short film that consists of news reports, usually one that was made in the past for showing in ...
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footage
noun[U]
uk
/ˈfʊt.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈfʊt̬.ɪdʒ/
(a piece of) film especially one showing ...
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(Definition ofnewsreelandfootagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We have all seen thenewsreelfootageof some of those tests and have seen service men standing above ground with no protective clothing.
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Thenewsreelfootagehas had a news crawl featuring the three news items superimposed over the zeppelin to make it look like a modern blimp.
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It has since been combined with the separately filmednewsreelfootage.
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Parts of it were later dubbed ontonewsreelfootage(not the newsreel at right), giving the impression that the words and film were recorded together.
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It traces the history of compilation films constructed using foundnewsreelfootage.
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At this point, the film changes to monochrome in order to match up with thenewsreelfootageof the disaster.
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Narration explains faux historicalnewsreelfootage, which is either acted for the production, or made of genuine footage dubbed with fictional narration.
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Originalnewsreelfootageof the event was integrated into the episode's scenes.
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Later, in the war scenes, originalnewsreelfootageis used.
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Billie the horse was actually grey, but appeared white in the primitive black and whitenewsreelfootageof the era.
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He shared his years of researching letters, rare photographs,newsreelfootage, and examples of signs-of-the-times, through the use of slides, film, and song and dance.
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At one point he invited the royal family to the set andnewsreelfootageof their visit proved to be good publicity for the film.
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The movie was made largely fromnewsreelfootagerecut into a documentary.
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It includes interviews with five survivors along with originalnewsreelfootage.
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The case seems hopeless, but then the prosecutor produces hard evidence:newsreelfootageof twenty-two people caught in the act.
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The documentary explores the redevelopments in culture, transport, health care and education, industry and trade, compiled usingnewsreelfootageof eyewitnesses.
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The work incorporatesnewsreelfootagefrom the event, as well as interviews with historians and participants.
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The museum's collection of antique-autonewsreelfootagebroadened into a library of vintage movie comedies, displaying vehicles of the 1920s in motion.
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The substantial eighty-minute programme relied almost entirely on extensivenewsreelfootagefrom the time which showed in some detail how an airship operated.
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The film's structure aimed to promote its story's authenticity and credibility through the integration ofnewsreelfootageand the presence of a genuine survivor as the narrator.
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