Hearst Metrotone News

Short film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly balanced narration portrays Berliners as "accepting the wall but never resigned to it". The extraordinary footage of the first escapes was propaganda enough-- His challenge was to make the politics human.

A promotional clip to New York World's Fair circa 1964-1965.

World Assembly of Youth is a documentary film released on July 1, 1952, by the Young Adult Council, a member of the World Assembly of Youth. The film was produced by News of the Day, formerly known as Hearst Metrotone News. The film has supposed links to Stanley Kubrick.

"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, and Austria. Highlights include the exchange of toasts by Mr. Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and the signing of five major agreements by President Nixon and Russian leaders concerning cooperation in environmental protection, medicine, space, science and technology, and the use of the seas and other commercial relations" (US National Archives).

People give their opinion to the report on the unpopular Dry Law.

In an on-camera interview, Ohio working girl Mary Clowes explains that she is offering her hand in marriage to whoever can provide $10,000 to support her parents, who have since lost their farm and who, following the deaths of her two brothers, rely on her as their lone source of financial support.

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor.

G.W. Wickersham, head of Commission, sums up it's findings for Metrotone.

Anna May Wong's vlog in Shanghai, May 1936. Footage shot (but ultimately unused) for the Hearst Metrotone newsreel series: the American star arrives aboard a Dollar Line ship on the Huangpu River, checks in at the iconic Park Hotel, tours the Star Motion Picture Studio and the set of the film Diamond (金刚钻), meets Miss Butterfly Wu, makes a brief stop at the flower market...

President Harding and his wife paying tribute to a group of Indians (Fragment of a longer piece)

A Hearst Metrotone prohibition newsreel.

The story of Ham, a little chimpanzee who traveled through space for 18 minutes.

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

Significant events from 1934, in the United States and abroad, are covered in newsreel format.

This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths, with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison, is drawn from the October 1, 1934, issue of Hearst Metrotone News. The segment’s dynamic visuals, on-camera personal appeal, and extended length make the story atypical for a newsreel, but the form’s usual breathless pace is applied to a cautionary fable: the too-frequent “road” of youth from school through unemployment, homelessness, and crime and on to the gates of the penitentiary. -National Film Preservation Foundation

Newsreel story about the California “Bum Blockade”, a scheme which fell apart after 2 months.