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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", there's a scene where Lestat, Claudia and Louis are at a movie theatre while a news update of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler is being projected on the screen.

** Possibly justified as the alternate history of 1984 splits from ours when newsreels were still very common.

* Every episode of the 1970s World War II TV series ''Baa Baa Black Sheep'' (aka ''Series/BlackSheepSquadron'') opened with a faux newsreel. The images were authentic but the voiceover was modern, settting up the action for the episode.

A news program shown in cinemas, typically. Pioneered by Creator/{{Pathe}} in UsefulNotes/{{France}} in 1908 (in the SilentMovie era), these were almost always in black and white. Many of them had a propaganda element to them, subtle or blatant.

A news program shown in cinemas, typically. These were almost always in black and white. Many of them had a propaganda element to them, subtle or blatant.

The footage recorded for these newsreels is one of the primary audio-visual records of the first half of the 20th century, especially the Second World War; the Allies in particular would send each other footage to appear in their respective newsreels. As a result, it will often appear in documentaries and if you watch a lot of them, you will start seeing the same clips turn up a lot.

The newsreel faded away in the 1950s and 1960s due to the rise of TV network news, and often mocked up in period pieces. The last documented newsreel in the Western world,

* UsefulNotes/NaziGermany had ''Die Deutsche Wochenschau'' ("The German Weekly Review"), which ran from from 1940 until very near the end of World War II in March 1945 by which point most German cinemas had closed and transport links had collapsed; most often narrated by MotorMouth announcer Harry Giese. It was a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi war propaganda, and the preserved ''Wochenschau'' short films actually make up a significant part of the audiovisual records of the armed forces of the [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany National-Socialist era]] that you'll see in virtually every documentary about it.

Many newsreels archives have been preserved and made publicly available, particularly in Europe. The largest such archive is likely [[https://www.britishpathe.com/ British Pathé]], who also preserve Reuters' own archive from the same era. Other good places to explore include [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHq777_waKMJw6SZdABmyaA British Movietone]], the [[https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/category/newsreels/ Irish Film Institute Archive]], France's [[https://gparchives.com/index.php Gaumont and Pathé Archive]], and Italy's [[https://www.archivioluce.com/archivio-cinematografico-2/ Archivio Luce]].

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* UsefulNotes/NaziGermany had ''Die Deutsche Wochenschau'' ("The German Weekly Review"), which ran from from 1940 until very near the end of World War II in March 1945 by which point most German cinemas had closed and transport links had collapsed; most often narrated by MotorMouth announcer Harry Giese. It was a vital instrument for the mass distribution of Nazi war propaganda, and the preserved ''Wochenschau'' short films actually make up a significant part of the audiovisual records of the National-Socialist era that you'll see in virtually every documentary about it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' has a newsreel in-between the TimeSkip detailing the passing of the SuperRegistrationAct and the supers being forced into civilian identities.