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Yesterday's Witness

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For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers.…

DirectorChristian Blackwood
WriterRaymond Fielding
ProducerChristian Blackwood

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Cast · Directed by Christian Blackwood

LTLowell Thomas
Lowell Thomas
Self - Narrator (voice)
EHEd Herlihy
Ed Herlihy
Self
HZHarry von Zell
Harry von Zell
Self
JS
Jack Shaindlin
Self
NA
Norman Alley
Self
MM
Max Markman
Self
JG
Joe Gibson
Self

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