Over fifty years ago, Rick Spalla Sr. began documenting Hollywood and the Entertainment scene. He pioneered the entertainment news magazine show some twenty years before Entertainment Tonight went on the air, launching the classic "Hollywood Backstage", "Hollywood Star Newsreel" and "Portrait of a Star" series as well as many others.

The thousands of hours of footage from these productions and our ongoing current entertainment coverage is now available online for use in new films, documentaries and biographies.

 Above is a brief example of the type of footage available exclusively from Hollywood Newsreel. You must have Flash installed to view this video properly. Click HERE to download the latest version of Flash.

The First Entertainment News Company!

 For over five decades Hollywood Newsreel has covered Movie Premieres, Walk of Fame Ceremonies, Academy Awards, Emmys, Grammys, Red Carpets, Studio Publicity Events, Chinese Theater Footprint Inductions, Star Interviews and much more.

Now for first time ever, this amazing film and video archive is available for research and download online. More footage is being added every day from our vast archive.

Custom Searches

You can browse through our new online media archive and download window-coded proxy clips for use in your productions on the new FOOTAGE SEARCH page.

Then when you are ready for final master footage, use the VAULT CHECKOUT to download clips or have them sent to you on DVD, Digibeta, Beta SP, DV, HDV, HDCAM, RED R3D or Quicktime files. 

You can also email us at info@hollywoodnewsreel.com or call us for a more detailed search of the library by one of our expert staff members!

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