Monday, July 19, 2010

Time For A Newsreel!

Here is a 1925 edition of the Kinograms silent newsreel, featuring Jack Dempsey, a balloon race, women dancing in chilly breezes, a juggler, and opium being seized and burned in Shanghai, China. 



Kinograms, distributed by Educational Pictures, was a silent newsreel that pretty much lasted through the 1920s but was doomed by the advent of sound.  An attempted comback in the early 1930s as a sound-on-disk newsreel was an abysmal failure.

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