Place of Birth: Sevastopol, Russia [now Crimea, Ukraine]
Birthday: April 14, 1909
Deathday: September 22, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Yesterday's Witness
Overview: For the first 50 years of film history, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. From 1911 to 1967, these shorts proved an influential source of information – and misinformation – for generations of American moviegoers. Television news and public affairs programs became a great improvement over the scanty information offered by the newsreels. This documentary offers insight into a medium which has disappeared.