Examples of newsreel in a Sentence
old newsreels from World War II
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For the film’s black-and-white newsreel scenes, Prieto borrowed Martin Scorsese’s Bell and Howell 1917 camera.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
Prieto and Scorsese embraced a fiendishly inventive approach to telling the story — one that mixes in scenes of shocking violence with newsreels and radio shows that are straight out of its 1920s setting.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
His father, Morton, was a reporter for The New York Journal and a newsreel production manager.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Incorporating archival newsreel for additional context, Da 5 Bloods is a war film with action sequences, but many of the battles pit man against his memory.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2024
Editor Ian Olds makes these connections look easy by juxtaposing informational and newsreel footage with damning talking-head commentary that brings everything together in essay-like fashion.
—Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
In fact, play all the World War II newsreels backwards, and everyone’s happy.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Every violent, brutal crash in the movie is based on historical newsreel footage, including an early one in which a driver hits a curb and his car gets launched against a wall.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
The two opening sequences — of a black and white newsreel providing backstory about the oil boom that made the Osage rich, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s introduction to the town of Fairfax — strut with a confident, bluesy gait that establishes a feeling of upbeat pride that will soon be upended.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
Prieto and Scorsese embraced a fiendishly inventive approach to telling the story — one that mixes in scenes of shocking violence with newsreels and radio shows that are straight out of its 1920s setting.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
His father, Morton, was a reporter for The New York Journal and a newsreel production manager.
—Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
Incorporating archival newsreel for additional context, Da 5 Bloods is a war film with action sequences, but many of the battles pit man against his memory.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2024
Editor Ian Olds makes these connections look easy by juxtaposing informational and newsreel footage with damning talking-head commentary that brings everything together in essay-like fashion.
—Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2024
In fact, play all the World War II newsreels backwards, and everyone’s happy.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
Every violent, brutal crash in the movie is based on historical newsreel footage, including an early one in which a driver hits a curb and his car gets launched against a wall.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
The two opening sequences — of a black and white newsreel providing backstory about the oil boom that made the Osage rich, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s introduction to the town of Fairfax — strut with a confident, bluesy gait that establishes a feeling of upbeat pride that will soon be upended.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
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newsreel
noun
news·reel
-ˌrēl 
: a short motion picture dealing with current events
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