Movies: Hearst Metrotone News

"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 agre...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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....

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 link...

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 Mo...

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression....

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition....

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 ...

A Hearst Metrotone News reel....

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

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...

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

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