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Newsreels showed cinema audiences the wider world
Twice weekly short films brought sport, disasters and politics to millions From about 1910, companies such as Pathé and Gaumont produced short news films shown before the main feature. By the 1930s most British and American cinemas screened them twice a week. They mixed actual footage with staged inserts, and they remained a main source of moving pictures of events until television took over. It sits in Mondo's history collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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