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.

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...

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

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

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

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

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

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

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

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...

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

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

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

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

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...