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Universal Newsreels Available on YouTube

Posted on March 23, 2009 by The Retroist

Before we had the constant braying of 24 hours cable news, people got their “visual” news via newsreel. Universal Newsreels were released twice a week and ran in movie theaters from 1929 to 1967. For over thirty years, the only … Continue reading →

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