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 ...

Host Howard Berkes talks with Dan Streible, a founder of the Orphan Film Symposium, a group of film buffs who preserve old newsreels, stock footage, home movies, and other items that no one else will ...

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, ...