A few hours ago I was poking around on the wonderful British Pathé site—the one of the Steinlauf family of Chicago and their oddball bicycles is great, as is the one that's just 200 cars on fire—and ...
A “today in history” post from The Poynter Institute includes an old newsreel showing that ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, was also the first to raise the specter of government ...
For their best shots, newsreels are dependent upon accidentally suitable events, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Otherwise they are too often forced to use cliches like battleship launchings, ...