Yesterday's news : the British cinema newsreel reader /
McKernan, Luke.
London : British Universities Film & Video Council,
c2002.
This book brings together over forty key texts on the British newsreels, from their silent beginnings to their revival as the ingredient of television documentaries. The texts come from trade papers, memoirs, parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, publicity brochures, film reviews and academic essays past and present. They document how the newsreels were produced, how they were received, and the controversies they inspired through the conflicting demands of news and entertainment.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-310) and index.
Introduction: British Newsreels: Past and Present - The Newsreel Boys - My View of Things - The Animated Newspaper - A Criticism of the News-film - The News-Film: A Symposium - Adventures of a War Correspondent - Running the Topical Films - The Supreme Moment of the War: General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem - Chez Pathe: The Story of a Gazette in the Making - Why Not a Socialist Newsreel? - Beating the Press? Reporting the R101 Disaster - The News-Theatre - Pirates of the News-reel - Newsreels show Political Bias: Editing of Spanish War Scenes Discloses Partisan Views - Newsreel Man in the Firing Line: the Adventures and Misadventures of Richard Butler, Pathe Cameraman in Search of Newsreel Pictures on the Aragon Front - Newsreel Scripts: A Case-Study - Newsreel - The News-reel - The News-reel Cameraman - Censorship and the Restriction of Liberty - The Industry's Front Page News - British Newsreels in the 1930s: 1. Audience and Producers - British Newsreels in the 1930s: 2. Their Policies and Impact - The Cinema. News reels. At various cinemas - We lived in the Presence of History: The Story of British Movietone News - The Faking of Newsreels (Mass-Observation File Report 16) - Newsreel Report (Mass-Observation File Report 22) - Memo on Newsreels (Mass-Observation  File Report 3140) - Newsreeler at Dunkirk - The Newsreels - D-Day as the Newsreel Boys saw It - Horror in our Time: Images of the concentration camps in the British media, 1945 - Belsen - Newsreels Must Find a New Policy - If I Owned Newsreels: What a Row There Would Be! - Beware of the Newsreels - The B.B.C Television Newsreel - Television and the Land of Morning Calm - The Truth About Newsreels - Cinema Newsreel and the Impact of Television - The Newsreel Association of Great Britain and Ireland - Everything that Constitutes Life: Pathe Cinemagazines, 1918-1969 - A Game Women Cannot Play...? Women in British Newsreels - The Nature of the Evidence.
This book brings together over forty key texts on the British newsreels, from their silent beginnings to their revival as the ingredient of television documentaries. The texts come from trade papers, memoirs, parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, publicity brochures, film reviews and academic essays past and present. They document how the newsreels were produced, how they were received, and the controversies they inspired through the conflicting demands of news and entertainment.
Newsreels