A two-part history of the newsreel co-produced by the BBC and the CBC.
Silent Witness
Dec 29, 1998
Evidence of how early news films were sometimes faked by unscrupulous producers.
The Sound and the Fury
Dec 30, 1998
The arrival of sound in the thirties allowed newsreels to capture the turbulence of wars, revolutions and assassinations, but cinemas were more interested in stunts.
