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newsreel
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnuzˌɹil/
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
newsreel (countable and uncountable, plural newsreels)
- (countable) A short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence.
- 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN:
- The film, written and directed by Michelle Ferrari, is filled with jaw-dropping moments: newsreel footage of white American families merrily competing in “genetic fitness” contests at state fairs where they were measured like livestock; a retelling of a pivotal court case where a teenage mother was forcibly sterilized by her mother; and the story of how the irrepressible inventor of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes became a champion of eugenics.
- (uncountable) The genre of such films. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
a short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence
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