Films produced by Hearst Metrotone News

World Assembly of Youth is a documentary film released on July 1, 1952, by the Young Adult Council, a member of the World Assembly of Youth. The film...

Short film which documents Marian Anderson's singing performance at the Lincoln Memorial.

"This film documents President Nixon's 1972 trips to the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, and Austria. Highlights include...

A documentary about alpinism that takes place on Mount Kennedy. It was produced in 1965 by Hearst Metrotone News. It's part of the series, "Screen...

Newsreel story about the California “Bum Blockade”, a scheme which fell apart after 2 months.

Significant events from 1934, in the United States and abroad, are covered in newsreel format.

Anna May Wong created “My China Film” as her response to not being cast in Metro Goldwyn Meyer’s award-winning film about Chinese...

This plea to reduce the growing numbers of imprisoned youths, with its warning from the celebrated warden of Sing Sing prison, is drawn from the...

Like the best USIA films, The Wall distills political events into an emotionally clear and compelling ideological "story". In 1962 Walter de Hoog...

A Hearst Metrotone prohibition newsreel.

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor.

President Harding and his wife paying tribute to a group of Indians (Fragment of a longer piece)

People give their opinion to the report on the unpopular Dry Law.

The story of Ham, a little chimpanzee who traveled through space for 18 minutes.

Short newsreel on why personal thrift feeds the Depression.

G.W. Wickersham, head of Commission, sums up it's findings for Metrotone.

A Hearst Metrotone News reel.

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition.

In an on-camera interview, Ohio working girl Mary Clowes explains that she is offering her hand in marriage to whoever can provide $10,000 to support...