Vitaphone Pictorial Revue (sometimes spelled âÂÂReviewâÂÂ) was a series of 9-11 minute newsreel oriented (documentary) film shorts produced by Vitaphone and Warner Brothers.
Mostly edited in New York at the Vitaphone studio, but a few also made in California with Gordon Hollingshead producing, these were human-interest newsreels that resembled such rival series like âÂÂPathé Audio ReviewâÂÂ, distributed by RKO Pictures, and Paramount Pictures âÂÂParamount PictorialâÂÂ. Each film is divided into three or four separate segments. In a couple, a segment was presented in Cinecolor.
The series lasted just two years in the 1930s and was mostly forgotten until Turner Classic Movies started showing a few as filler between feature presentations, sometimes with the color segments missing.