London Day by Day was the first
newsreel
A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s. Typically presented in a cinema, newsreels were a source of current affairs, informa ...
produced by British filmmaker
Will Barker
William George Barker (18 January 1868, in Cheshunt – 6 November 1951, in Wimbledon, London, Wimbledon) was a British film producer, director, cinematographer, and entrepreneur who took film-making in Britain from a low budget form of novel ...
in 1906. The newsreel was a short,
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
compilation regularly released in a public presentation place and contained filmed news.
[Wilson Casey, Firsts: Origins of Everyday Things That Changed the World, 2009]
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References
Newsreels
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