Yesterday's Witness

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.

Cast

Lowell Thomas

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ed Herlihy

Self

Harry von Zell

Self

J

Jack Shaindlin

Self

N

Norman Alley

Self

M

Max Markman

Self

J

Joe Gibson

Self

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