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'''''Hearst Metrotone News''''' (renamed '''''News of the Day''''' in 1936) was a [[newsreel]] series (1914&ndash;1967) produced by the [[Hearst Communications|Hearst Corporation]], founded by [[William Randolph Hearst]].<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Photographing fire for news reels 18602u original.jpg|thumb|A ''Hearst Metrotone News'' crew filming a fire.]]<br />
Hearst produced [[silent film|silent newsreel]]s under the titles of ''Hearst Newsreel'', ''International Newsreel'', and ''MGM News'' before settling on the generic title ''Hearst Metrotone News''. From January 1919 to July 1929, ''International Newsreel'' was produced by Hearst's [[International News Service]] and released by [[Universal Studios]].<br />
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Hearst began to release [[sound film|sound newsreel]]s in September 1929 under an agreement with [[Fox Film Corporation]] using the [[Movietone sound system|Fox Movietone]] sound system. Hearst dissolved its agreement with Fox in October 1934, and released its newsreels through [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] from then until 1967. William Randolph Hearst was a controversial figure for several years. In November 1936, in reaction to protests and moviegoers' booing of the Hearst newsreel when it began showing causing theaters to edit out references to Hearst, the name of the newsreel was officially changed to ''News of the Day'' by Hearst.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081215094331/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,757000,00.html ''Time'', Cinema: Hearst's ''News of the Day'' Monday, Nov. 23, 1936]</ref> The ''Hearst Metrotone News'' name continued to appear on the [[copyright]] notice at the end of the newsreel. [[Michael Fitzmaurice (actor)|Michael Fitzmaurice]] was the primary announcers for Hearst-Metrotone newsreels.<br />
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Other U.S. newsreel series include ''[[The March of Time]]'' (1935-1951), ''[[Pathé News]]'' (1910-1956), ''[[Paramount News]]'' (1927-1957), ''[[Fox Movietone News]]'' (1928-1963), and ''[[Universal Newsreel]]'' (1929-1967).<br />
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In 1981, the entire Hearst newsreel library was acquired by the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]] and held by the [[Packard Humanities Institute]] that is scanning the [[film]] on [[Scanity]] [[motion picture film scanner]].<ref>[http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/hearst Hearst Metrotone News info at UCLA Film and Television Archive website]</ref><br />
<ref>[http://cougarnews.com/news/phi-builds-state-of-the-art-film-archive-in-santa-clarita Cougar news, HI builds state-of-the-art film archive in Santa Clarita, Arts & Entertainment News, February 19, 2015]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/hearst Collection info at UCLA Film and Television Archive]<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwbHu9GP0-w A complete ''News of the Day'' newsreel from 1963 about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy]<br />
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