Jack Shaindlin

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.

Stan Kenton and his Orchestra perform "This Love of Mine" with Cyd Charisse and other dancers

Cindy Walker expressing herself with TI-Yi-Yippee-Aye.