Hearst Metrotone News Movies

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

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...

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

"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, and Austria. Highlights include...

Anna May Wong's vlog in Shanghai, May 1936. Footage shot (but ultimately unused) for the Hearst Metrotone newsreel series: the American star arrives...

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

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...

A Hearst Metrotone prohibition newsreel.

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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