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Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Spain in the early 1930s as Noticiario Fox Movietone [1] before being replaced by No-Do, in Australia and New Zealand until 1970, and Germany as Fox Tönende Wochenschau from 1930 to ...
In the U.S., newsreel series included The March of Time (1935–1951), Pathé News (1910–1956), Paramount News (1927–1957), Fox Movietone News (1928–1963), Hearst Metrotone News (1914–1967), and Universal Newsreel (1929–1967). Pathé News was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures from 1931 to 1947, and then by Warner Brothers from 1947 to ...
The cameraman, Harry Birch, was Fox News' first Chicago staff cameraman. Fox News was the original newsreel established by movie mogul William Fox. It was eventually replaced by Fox's pioneering sound newsreel, Fox Movietone News, which began regular operations in December 1927.
Hearst Metrotone News 1914–1967; Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial 1915-1916; The March of Time (Warner Bros./Time, Inc.) 1935-1951; Movietone News (20th Century Fox) 1928-1963; Pathé News 1910-1956; Paramount News (Paramount Pictures) 1925-1957; Universal Newsreel (Universal Studios) 1929-1967
Hearst began to release sound newsreels in September 1929 under an agreement with Fox Film Corporation using the Fox Movietone sound system. Hearst dissolved its agreement with Fox in October 1934, and released its newsreels through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from then until 1967. William Randolph Hearst was a controversial figure for several years.
Movietone News was launched as a regular newsreel feature December 3 of that year. [26] Production of the series continued after the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures, until 1963, and continued to serve 20th Century Fox after that, as a source for film industry stock footage. [24] Unlike Fox's early feature films, the Fox News and Fox ...
The newsreel features Interviews with television personalities Meredith Starr, Charles Purdom, and British actor Quentin Tod among others. [5] The reels were produced by 20th Century Fox Film Corporation for their Movietone News, and Paramount Pictures for their Paramount News series respectively.
In 2016, the children of Joseph P. Smith, acquired 100% of the stock. Today, Pathé News, Inc. is a family-owned private company. Other U.S. newsreel series included Paramount News (1927–1957), Fox Movietone News (1928–1963), Hearst Metrotone News/News of the Day (1914–1967), Universal Newsreel (1929–1967) and The March of Time (1935 ...