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old newsreels from World War II
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April 26, 1990 Born George Ray Hawkins in Hammond, Ind., on June 7, 1944, Hawkins joined the Navy after high school and was sent to photography training in Pensacola, Fla., and became an aerial photographer and newsreel cameraman.
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Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Decades later, a trove of unseen and long-forgotten footage – as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents – has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Decades later, a trove of unseen and long forgotten footage—as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents—has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Bob Dylan was very well photographed; [there was] a lot of news conferences and newsreels in the early part of his career.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
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Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Decades later, a trove of unseen and long-forgotten footage – as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents – has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Decades later, a trove of unseen and long forgotten footage—as newsreels, public television broadcasts, propaganda films, and declassified documents—has been recovered from Paraguay and abroad, revealing the hidden mechanisms of power behind Stroessner’s rule.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
Bob Dylan was very well photographed; [there was] a lot of news conferences and newsreels in the early part of his career.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Newsreel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsreel. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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newsreel
noun
news·reel
-ˌrēl 
: a short motion picture dealing with current events
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