Hearst Metrotone News
Hearst Metrotone News (renamed News of the Day in 1936) was a newsreel series (1914–1967) produced by the Hearst Corporation, founded by William Randolph Hearst.
History
Hearst produced
Universal Studios
.
Hearst began to release
Fox Film Corporation using the Fox Movietone sound system. Hearst dissolved its agreement with Fox in October 1934, and released its newsreels through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from then until 1967. William Randolph Hearst was a controversial figure for several years. In November 1936, in reaction to protests and moviegoers' booing of the Hearst newsreel when it began showing causing theaters to edit out references to Hearst, the name of the newsreel was officially changed to News of the Day by Hearst.[1] The Hearst Metrotone News name continued to appear on the copyright notice at the end of the newsreel. Michael Fitzmaurice
was the primary announcers for Hearst-Metrotone newsreels.
Other U.S. newsreel series include Fox Movietone News (1928-1963), and Universal Newsreel (1929-1967).
In 1981, the entire Hearst newsreel library was acquired by the
Scanity motion picture film scanner.[2]
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References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hearst Metrotone News.
- Packard Humanities Institute. "Hearst Metrotone News Collection". newsreels.net. Regents of the University of California. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
the newsreels shown in theatres from 1929 to 1967. If the story title is displayed in red, you can click on the title to play the video.
- Collection info at UCLA Film and Television Archive
- youtube.com
