The journalist who wrote this piece saw much good in movie newsreels, believing that “the newsreel encourages a keener sense of the present and imprisons it for history.” He doesn’t refer to any of the prominent newsreel production houses of the day, such as “Fox Movietone”, “Hearst Metrotone”, “Warner-Pathe” or “News of the Day” but rather prefers instead to wax poetic about the general good that newsreels perform and the services rendered. This newsreel advocate presented the reader with a long, amusing list of kings, dictators and presidents and what they thought of having their images recorded.
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