What is Movietone News?
'''Movietone News''' is a [[newsreel]] that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. It was also in France and in Australia and New Zealand until 1970. It was in the [[United Kingdom]] from 1929 to 1986 as '''British Movietone News'''. In [[Germany]], it was '''Fox Tönende Wochenschau'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baechlin |first1=Peter |last2=Walter-Strauss |first2=Maurice |title=Newsreels across the world |date=1952 |publisher=UNESCO Paris |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentViewer.xhtml?v=2.1.196&id=p::usmarcdef_0000030104&file=/in/rest/annotationSVC/DownloadWatermarkedAttachment/attach_import_2ab4ef6a-db67-4504-afa2-4b539f4f7b05%3F_%3D030104engo.pdf&locale=en&multi=true&ark=/ark:/48223/pf0000030104/PDF/030104engo.pdf}}</ref> ==History== [[File:Fox movietone 2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera]] Movietone News started from an earlier newsreel called [[Fox News (1919 – 1930)|Fox News]]. It made silent newsreels. When Fox started making movies with sound in 1928 with ''[[Mother Knows Best (film)|Mother Knows Best]]'', the name '''Fox Movietone''' was used for Fox's sound movies. [[File:JazzSingerAndFox.jpg|thumb|left|250px|alt=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 sound system|Movietone]], together on the same bill.]] Fox Films joined with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 to become [[20th Century Studios|20th Century-Fox]]. Fox Movietone News was shortened to Movietone News. In [[Australia]], Movietone and [[Cinesound]] competed for newsreel coverage. Later, they joined and became the Australian Movie Magazine. ==Status and licensing== The [[University of South Carolina]] Moving Image Research Collections<ref>{{cite web | url=http://library.sc.edu/p/collections/mirc | title=Moving Image Research Collections - University Libraries &#124; Univ