Hearst Metrotone News (renamedNews of the Day in 1936) was anewsreel series that ran from 1914 to 1967 produced by theHearst Corporation, founded byWilliam Randolph Hearst.
Hearst producedsilent newsreels under the titles ofHearst Newsreel,International Newsreel, andMGM News before settling on the generic titleHearst Metrotone News. From January 1919 to July 1929,International Newsreel was produced by Hearst'sInternational News Service and released byUniversal Studios.
Hearst began to releasesound newsreels in September 1929 under an agreement withFox Film Corporation using theFox Movietone sound system. Hearst dissolved its agreement with Fox in October 1934, and released its newsreels throughMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer from then until 1967. William Randolph Hearst was a controversial figure for several years. In November 1936, in reaction to protests and moviegoers' booing of the Hearst newsreel when it began showing causing theaters to edit out references to Hearst, the name of the newsreel was officially changed toNews of the Day by Hearst.[1] TheHearst Metrotone News name continued to appear on thecopyright notice at the end of the newsreel.Michael Fitzmaurice was the primary announcers for Hearst-Metrotone newsreels.
Other U.S. newsreel series includeThe March of Time (1935-1951),Pathé News (1910-1956),Paramount News (1927-1957),Fox Movietone News (1928-1963), andUniversal Newsreel (1929-1967).
In 1981, the entire Hearst newsreel library was acquired by theUCLA Film and Television Archive and held by thePackard Humanities Institute that is scanning thefilm onScanitymotion picture film scanner.[2][3]
In cooperation with theUCLA Film and Television Archive, The Packard Humanities InstitutePackard Humanities Institute developed a website (newsreels.net) to make the Hearst newsreel collection more easily accessible to the public. Over 20,000 news stories are available to view on the site.[4]
the newsreels shown in theatres from 1929 to 1967. If the story title is displayed in red, you can click on the title to play the video.
