Fox Movietone News collection

Contributors: Movietonews (Firm). (Creator)

Dates of Creation: Circa 1919-1944.

Scope and Content Note: The collection contains seven million feet of nitrate motion picture film and four million feet of safety motion picture film documenting the national and global politics and culture from 1919 through 1934 and from September 1942 through August 1944. Paper holdings provide detailed notes generated by original camera crews as well as ephemera related to individual stories. Within the collection are elements from two distinct newsreel products. One is a silent newsreel, Fox News, which ran from 1919 into 1930. The other is the original sound newsreel, Fox Movietone News, which ran from 1927 through 1963. The majority of films in the collection were not used by the Fox corporation as part of a released newsreel. The collection does contain over 200 released newsreels from 1942 to 1944.

Access: Portions of this collection may be viewed online; the remainder may be accessed upon request. Additional information about the items in this collection can be found in the MIRC Reference Catalog.

Subjects: Journalism
Sound motion pictures--History
World War, 1939-1945

Related Digital Collections: "African Americans Seen Through the Eyes of the Newsreel Cameraman," a digital exhibition of selected Fox Movietone films, is available through USC Digital Collections: library.sc.edu/digital/collections/flmovietone.html

"Fox Movietone News: The War Years," a digital collection of selected Fox Movietone films and paperwork, is available through USC Digital Collections: library.sc.edu/digital/collections/mvtnwarfilms.html