Hearst Metrotone News Movies

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.