Editing Fox Film (section)

===Newsreels===
[[File:Movietone title card.jpg|thumb|Title card from a 1935 ''Fox Movietone News'' newsreel]]
In 1919, Fox began a series of silent [[newsreel]]s, competing with existing series such as ''[[Hearst Metrotone News]]'', ''[[Universal Newsreel|International Newsreel]]'', and ''[[Pathé News]]''. ''[[Fox News (1919–1930)|Fox News]]'' premiered on October 11, 1919, with subsequent issues released on the Wednesday and Sunday of each week. ''Fox News'' gained an advantage over its more established competitors when President [[Woodrow Wilson]] endorsed the newsreel in a letter, in what may have been the first time an American president commented on a film.{{sfn|Fielding|2011|p=60}} In subsequent years, ''Fox News'' remained one of the major names in the newsreel industry by providing often-exclusive coverage of major international events, including reporting on [[Pancho Villa]], the airship ''[[Roma (airship)|Roma]]'', the [[Ku Klux Klan]], and a 1922 eruption of [[Mount Vesuvius]].{{sfn|Fielding|2011|p=61}} The silent newsreel series continued until 1930.<ref name=Wilsbacher />

In 1926, a subsidiary, Fox Movietone Corporation, was created, tasked with producing newsreels using Fox's recently acquired sound-on-film technology. The first of these newsreels debuted on January 21, 1927. Four months later, the May 25 release of a sound recording of [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s departure on his [[transatlantic flight]] was described by film historian Raymond Fielding as the "first sound news film of consequence".{{sfn|Fielding|2011|pp=102–104}} ''[[Movietone News]]'' was launched as a regular newsreel feature December 3 of that year.{{sfn|Fielding|2011|p=105}} Production of the series continued after the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures, until 1963, and continued to serve 20th Century Fox after that, as a source for film industry stock footage.<ref name=Wilsbacher />

Unlike Fox's early feature films, the ''Fox News'' and ''Fox Movietone News'' libraries have largely survived. The earlier series and some parts of its sound successor are now held by the [[University of South Carolina]], with the remaining ''Fox Movietone News'' still held by the company.<ref name=Wilsbacher />