Yesterday's Witness

Name: Yesterday's Witness
Director: Christian Blackwood
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1976-11-01
Duration: 54 min
Cast: Lowell Thomas, Ed Herlihy, Harry von Zell, Jack Shaindlin, Norman Alley

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1976 · 54 min · Documentary · TMDB 7.0/10

Overview

For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.

Directed by Christian Blackwood

Cast

Lowell Thomas — Self - Narrator (voice)
Ed Herlihy — Self
Harry von Zell — Self
Jack Shaindlin — Self
Norman Alley — Self