Movietone News

One of the earliest in the series featured George Bernard Shaw Talks to Movietone News, released on June 25, 1928.

One of the known early producers of these newsreels was Abraham Harrison also known as Harry, father of notable black and white photographer Dody Weston Thompson who also found a brief career in film making.

Sir Harry Lauder also appeared in test sound films made at the Fox Studios in New York City during the winter-spring of 1927.

Hearst Metrotone News initially leased the Case Research Lab patents from William Fox for its sound newsreels.

Fox's first use of recording a news event was on May 20, 1927: Charles Lindbergh's take-off from Roosevelt Field for his historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean was filmed with sound and shown in a New York theater that same night, inspiring Fox to create Movietone News.

[7] The Academy Film Archive houses the 20th Century Fox Movietone Shorts and Documentaries Series Collection.

A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera
Advertisement from the Blue Mouse Theater announcing the Pacific Coast premiere of The Jazz Singer, and Movietone News
Newspaper ad from a fully equipped theater in Tacoma, Washington, showing The Jazz Singer , on Vitaphone, and a Fox newsreel, on Movietone , together on the same bill.
Magic Carpet of Movietone 52 issues a year, 1932 ad