From the recently-released newsreel site: here’s one covering Madame Chiang Kai-Shek’s much publicized wartime speech at the Hollywood Bowl in April 1943.

At 0:06, you’ll catch a brief view of numerous Hollywood actresses who were guests of honor at the event, including in the shot here Norma Shearer, Irene Dunne, Ida Lupino, Mary Pickford, Loretta Young, Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth, and I believe that’s Shirley Temple’s hair behind Pickford.

https://newsreels.net/v/3nnki3u

#OldHollywood #Newsreels

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UCLA has made its Hearst Newsreel collection (1929-67) available online. Link to searchable website here: https://newsreels.net/ #filmhistory #newsreels

@oldbritishtelly I really enjoy listening to the language and tone of newsreel narrators. Their style was very much of its medium and of its era. Not perhaps how we would wish the news presented today, but it provides an interesting glance back to 70-plus years ago.

#newsreels

I really get a kick out of those vintage B&W short films from the 1930's & 1940's that TCM sometimes tacks on as a filler after the end of its classic movies. #newsreels