Relating to or characteristic of a newsreel; reminiscent of the style or quality of a newsreel.
The grainy footage gives the film a distinctly newsreel feel.
newsreelnoun
A short motion-picture film consisting of news stories and topical footage, especially one shown in a cinema before the main feature during the first half of the 20th century.
The cinema played a newsreel before the main feature, showing footage from the recent royal visit.
A compilation of filmed news items produced periodically for television, archival, or educational use.
The documentary incorporated newsreels from the 1960s to illustrate the civil-rights protests.