Hearst Metrotone News

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.

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

A Hearst Metrotone prohibition newsreel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

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...

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

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.

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

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.