Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short film dealing with recent or current events.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A short
film containingnews orcurrent affairs ; especially one of several shown in sequence. - noun uncountable The
genre of such films.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short film and commentary about current events
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Examples
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(Soundbite of music) ZWERDLING: Here's a newsreel from the Korean War.
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(A newsreel from the Middle East which Smith watches shows a boat full of Jewish refugees being sunk by an Oceanian helicopter; evidently, in this history the state of Israel, founded in 1948, had had only an ephemeral existence.)
Background information for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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Truman’s cash strapped campaign used public domain newsreel footage and slapped something together.
Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business. 2010
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