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Ewa Wampuszyc
Mapping Warsaw, 10/2018Book Chapter
The newsreel, a “potpourri of motion picture news footage,” is an audiovisual artifact of the past.¹ The mere idea of the newsreel takes us back to an earlier era when the connection between the moving image, news, and its consumption by viewers was mediated by time and distance from the events it reported. A popular form of disseminating news in the United States and across Europe beginning in the first decades of the twentieth century, newsreels were limited to movie theaters, were screened prior to scheduled feature films, and were often secondary to the main attraction and audience interest. In
