I was listening to a discussion of the attack on a local radio talk show this morning and they mentioned that there was a lot of film made as the attack was occurring. I know I've seen a lot of video of the attack as it was happening and it occurred to me. They didn't have TV in those days so the only place folks could see those films was at the movies, when they ran the movie news reels.
We take it for granted now that we can see stuff like that on the history channel, or on the cable news channels or on YouTube. But I can remember when I was a kid, before television, going to the movies on Saturday and seeing the news reels. It was the only time we ever saw the news in videos.