When Early Newsreels Used Fake Footage To Show Real Events

When a huge earthquake killed 140,000 people in Japan in 1923, written and radio reports could get around the world quickly, but film footage couldn’t. That didn’t stop the makers of newsreels, who used special-effects tricks to recreate the event. That sort of thing was common from the earliest newsreels to the 1930s. – Gizmodo

Article source here:Arts Journal