How to Use newsreel in a Sentence

newsreel

noun

• This video from a newsreel shows what the course looked like in 1948.
  — Colin Diltz, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• And there’s different footage of that night — there were newsreels there and stuff.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2024
• Hitler’s a character too, glimpsed in eerie newsreel footage.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Silent newsreel that has to get your attention in the first few seconds.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 14 June 2018
• The footage and newsreels might as well have been taken yesterday.
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 June 2024
• There was newsreel footage, too, later shown at movie houses across the country.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
• The fact that there are no photographs and no newsreels can’t inhibit us.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 18 Nov. 2025
• Along with the interviews is a vast amount of archival video and grainy newsreel footage, much of it harrowing.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The images of that bonfire appeared in newsreels across the country.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
• The end credits for the teaser featured the concert dates and bloopers from the faux newsreel.
  — Marina Watts, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
• Motion-picture cameramen were on hand to record the climb in that day’s version of the newsreel.
  — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
• In many locales, a moviegoer might see two features, a cartoon, and a newsreel for one thin dime.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
• Black-and-white video complete with a voiceover right out of a Movietone newsreel shows the old park in all its glory.
  — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• The newsreels predate both world wars and the invention of the television.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
• The first-ever attack ads also appeared in movie theater newsreels.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
• That newsreel, as dumb luck would have it, has been accidentally unravelled and dragged through the dust and mud.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Sep. 2021
• Desmond mistakes the newsreel cameras that will record her arrest for those of a studio that will capture her starring role in a new movie.
  — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
• The fight against Ali, which comes well before the halfway mark, is told through a near-seamless blend of newsreels and live action.
  — Peter Hartlaub, kansascity.com, 25 May 2017
• Marchers were beaten and bloodied by White law enforcement; much of a nation had watched newsreel footage and were aghast.
  — Wil Haygood, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• For too long, the action mounts with the same stiff delivery as the newsreels that the characters absorb in their local movie house.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• That year, he was featured in a Pathé newsreel that spotlighted the autograph album for a full minute.
  — Rebecca Rego Barry, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Bob Dylan was very well photographed; [there was] a lot of news conferences and newsreels in the early part of his career.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
• And doesn’t that Inuit hunter from a 1920s newsreel look like a dead ringer for Fred Armisen?
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2022
• Instead, the film’s 79-minute running time is padded with newsreel footage from the Nuremberg trials and other stock footage.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 19 Nov. 2024
• When Kleitman received a request to shoot a newsreel on the last day of the expedition, the scientist again said yes.
  — Discover Magazine, 14 June 2024
• Anthems tend to carry within their textures a rich whiff of the past, the patina and efficiency of old war footage, the hiss and crackle of the newsreel.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• In fact, play all the World War II newsreels backwards, and everyone’s happy.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• Filled with cameras and newsreel operators, the events were highly reported and recorded.
  — Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
• The newsreel was translated into 22 languages and sent to 64 countries.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Apr. 2018
• As a toddler Carla appeared in a 1939 newsreel showing her being taught to walk the wire by her parents.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021