The short film parody in the Nordisk Tonefilms Journal, the Nuet-Newsreel, from 1954, is a brilliant example of the metafilmic aspect of the database "Reel History". In the collection there are hundreds of films, sequences and footage that either deal with film media itself, or with other modern media like gramophones, radio and television. There is also a number of films about the printed press and the art of making newspapers.

Naturally most of these "media films" are not as subtle and funny as this film of the "Nuet", with Lennart Hyland as narrator - who later on became one of the most famous television personalities in Sweden. But it is actually surprising how many of the preserved newsreels and short documentary films, that today can be regarded as some kind of media historical sources in (audio) visual form.