The Hungarian Film Archive is contributing information on their
collection of Hungarian Newsreels from the Hungarian Film Office (MFI).
The Hungarian Film Office (MFI) founded in 1924 produced the first
newsreel in the same year and then every week until 1944. MFI switched
to sound technology in 1931 upon producing issue Nr. 400. Between
1945–1948 not only one company produced newsreels. The legal successor
of the MFI, Magyar Központi Híradó (Hungarian Central News) produced
Weekly News in 1945 – a total of 10 issues. After 1945, several parties
appeared with newsreels for a short time. In the same year, Mafirt
Krónika (the weekly news of the Hungarian Film Industry Co.) was
launched under the auspices of the Communist Party, 112 issues were
released. From 1948, its role was taken over by the Hungarian Film News
(Magyar Filmhíradó), produced by the New Hungarian Film Office. The
film industry was socialised in the same year, the Hungarian Film
Production National Company (Magyar Filmgyártó Nemzeti Vállalat) united
every branch of the profession – including making news. 55 issues were
produced in this series in 1949. The 52 issues of Hungarian Film News
(Magyar Filmhíradó) renumbered every year commenced from the first week
of April 1949. From 1950, Hungarian Film News was produced in the
Hungarian Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio until the change of
regime in 1991, expect late October and December of 1956, when
newsreels were suspended. Aboved the weekly, thematic and special
newsreels were produced in the recent decades. The latter are recorded
among documentaries. In addition to the materials edited in Hungary,
foreign newsreels can be also found in the Archive.