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A news cinema or newsreel theatre is a cinema specialising in short films, shown in a continuous manner. However, despite its name, a news cinema does not necessarily show only cinematographical news.
A view from Piccadilly Circus in 1949: on the left Eros News Theatre. On the right the London Pavilion has a "continuous performance".
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A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the late 1960s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsree
News cinema
…theatre is a cinema specialising in short films, shown in a continuous manner. However, despite its name, a news cinema does not necessarily show only cinematographical news. The first official news cinema, The Daily Bioscope, opened in London on 23 May 1909…
Trade advertisement for the Universal Animated Weekly, a newsreel series created by Universal Pictures in 1913
News cameramen, Washington, D.C., 1938