By the mid 1910s feature films were usually preceded by newsreels. In fact, tin: earliest movie studios were established fo produce short films of news.worthy event;., including the Spanish-American War of 189tf, the funeral of assassinated president William McKinlcv in 1901, and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. During the 1910s the production ofwceklv newsrecls was a thriving, competitive component of the movie studio business. The leaders in the field were Hearst-Selig, Pathe (a French-owned, New Jersey--based company that was the first to make daily newsrcels,'starting in June 19141, and Fox Studio News. There is little authentic newsreel coverage of the biggest news event of the decide, World War I. Commercial cameramen were kept away from combat, and those who managed to get near it had their films censored by the U.S. government. Lack of real footage did not prevent the movie...