Digital resources tagged with ‘newsreels’
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Censorship in Media John Safran discusses censorship in Australian media. ![]() |
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Cinesound Review Ray Edmondson provides a history of Cinesound. Liz Jacka talks abut the differences between newsreels and today's TV news. ![]() ![]() |
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End of Cinema Newsreel The ultimate decline of cinema newsreels occurred with the coming of colour television. ![]() |
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Fox Movietone News The importance in Australian news broadcasting history of Movietone and other newsreels. ![]() |
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Newsreels before sound Newsreels included events of both political and social importance and were screened all day long in specially designed cinemas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Newsreels boost morale Newsreels of the war boosted the morale of Australians at the home front. The newsreel of Australian troops on the Kokoda Track shared the Oscar for Best Documentary in 1942. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Sound and newsreels in the 1920s Ray Edmondson provides an overview of the use of sound in newsreel production in Australia and recalls his experience of visiting the newsreel cinema in Sydney. ![]() |
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Technology Timeline 1960s: film vs video image quality Ray Edmondson compares the image quality of 35mm and 16mm film when it is transmitted in cinemas, on television and over the Internet. ![]() |