newsreel

English

Etymology

From news +‎ reel.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

newsreel (countable and uncountable, plural newsreels)

1. (countable) A short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence.
2. (uncountable) The genre of such films. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

a short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence

• Bulgarian: хроника (bg) f (hronika), кинопреглед m (kinopregled)
• Danish: ugerevy c (weekly broadcast, notably during World War II)
• Finnish: uutisfilmi
• French: actualités (fr) f pl
• Hungarian: híradó film, filmhíradó (hu), híradó (hu)
• Italian: cinegiornale (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: filmavis m or f

  Nynorsk: filmavis f

• Portuguese: cinejornal m
• Russian: киножурна́л (ru) m (kinožurnál)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: žurnal (sh) m

• Spanish: noticiero (es)
• Swedish: journalfilm c, filmjournal c, nyhetsfilm c, veckojournal c