Hearst Metrotone News Movies

Short film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.

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 her parents, who have since lost their farm and who, following the deaths of her two brothers, rely on her as their lone source of financial support.

Anna May Wong's vlog in Shanghai, May 1936. Footage shot (but ultimately unused) for the Hearst Metrotone newsreel series: the American star arrives aboard a Dollar Line ship on the Huangpu River, checks in at the iconic Park Hotel, tours the Star Motion Picture Studio and the set of the film...

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

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog gathered footage from U.S. and German newsreel sources and crafted this taut short film about the first year of the Berlin Wall. Straightforward, keenly...

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

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

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 was produced by News of the Day, formerly known as Hearst Metrotone News. The film has supposed links to Stanley Kubrick.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

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

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

A Hearst Metrotone prohibition newsreel.

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

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

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 October 1, 1934, issue of Hearst Metrotone News. The segment’s dynamic visuals, on-camera personal appeal, and extended length make the story atypical...

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

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.