Movie tone news clips of the Nuremberg trials in 1947 were approximately five seconds long.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 10, 2026
None of the provided sources states how long Movietone news clips of the Nuremberg trials ran, so the five-second figure can neither be confirmed nor refuted. The sources cover the trials, the 1947 Nuremberg documentaries, and Göring's testimony, but none gives clip durations.
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… But on the evening news, people were seeing footage from Eichmann on trial, and legal experts were weighing in on what was happening. You know, um, and that's substantially, that's a that's a whole different animal than going to the movie theater in 1947 and seeing movie tone news clips of, you know, they're five seconds long of Herman Gering on the stand when you can't even hear his testimony. There's just, you know, a uh a voiceover, as it were, you know, offering color com or proffering color commentary. So there was a. The, the, the Jerusalem court had a tougher, uh, road to hoe? …
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Context. The sources discuss the Nuremberg trials, the 1947 documentary "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today," and Soviet and US trial films, but none gives the running time of Movietone or other newsreel clips shown in theaters.[1][2][3][4]
Context. A 1947 Soviet documentary about the trials is listed at 58 minutes, which is a feature-length film and does not address the length of news clips.[5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 1 fact-checker, 5 not rated
- 1"Nuremberg" restoration a vital historical documentreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2IT'S LESSON FOR TODAY" WWII NUREMBERG WAR ...archive.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 3A-Z: Filmsencyclopedia.ushmm.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 4The Real Nuremberg Movietabletmag.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 5The Nuremberg Trials (film) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6Nuremberg Trialstv.apple.com · not rated · cited for: context
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