Starting in 1913 and ending in 1967, Time Inc provided a series of newsreels to theaters called "The March of Time." The series chronicled significant world events using photos, filmed elements and dramatic reenactments. When theaters stopped showing newsreels in the early fifties, Time Inc continued to make new documentaries and news stories for television. In the end, "The March of Time" covered more than 70 million feet of film.
Thought Equity Motion and the HBO Archival Collection recently teamed up to make all of the footage from "The March of Time" series available online. Unfortunately, it's only available to media professionals, but you can see a "trailer" of sorts here. It's nice to see this footage maintained, rather than simply fading away in a vault somewhere, plus it's a reminder of a time not terribly long ago when going to the movies or watching TV was more of an event than it is today.
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4-01-2007 @ 3:54AM
Brent McKee said...
I know that the website gives the 1913 date as the start of "The March Of Time" as a newsreel production but this seems more than a little suspect given that Time Magazine itself (which was the producer of "The March Of Time") didn't start publishing until 1923. Wikipedia states 1935 as the start date for the "March Of Time" newsreels.
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