Charles Peden started covering news events for Fox Movietonews in 1928; he joined Hearst Metrotone News ca. 1934; during the war years (1942-46), he commanded the 11th Combat Camera Group in the Aleuthians and then South Pacific and returned to Metrontone after the war, during his tenure with Metronone, he worded as cameraman, soundman, and Editor covering such events as the Lindbergh kidnapping, Franklin D, Roosevelt, the Korean conflict, and the Summitt Conferences with President Eisenhower; he also worked with Edward R. Murrow on the series See it now; Peden wrote articles for the American Cinematographer and the Silurian Publication and published Newsreel man, a book about the Lindbergh kidnapping; he died in 1974.
William Randolph Hearst founded Hearst Metrotone News, newsreel production company ca. 1929; (From UCLA FTA): Although the reels were fashioned for the most part to be entertaining, they uniquely document the events of their time. During their heyday, the newsreels presented everything from the battle for recovery from the Depression to the battles of World War Two. The onset of television news ended the golden age of the newsreel, but it nonetheless continued to be distributed theatrically well into the 1960s.
From the description of News of the Day files 1923-1968. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 320039381
