Az Est Film and Vörös Riport Film news portraying the events of 1918 and 1919 were the first Hungarian newsreels to survive the past, as copies were seized by the Horthy police to use them as evidence at court hearings. For the 100 year anniversary, the Film Archive started conducting a research with the help of digitally available articles to track down the news reports' background stories and decode the silent film segments. Never-before-seen negatives and missing scenes were also discovered while going through the archive. The idea of the 100 year old newsreels series came up while conducting said research and 37 episodes were published between August 2018 and July 2019 to provide today's viewers each week with a sense of what happened a century ago. Narrations were also created for the silent news to make them more comprehensible.

Galina Torma Galina graduated in 1999 from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Faculty of Humanities, where she studied Latin language and literature. She also studied art history and drama pedagogy at ELTE and SZFE. She was teaching Latin at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary from 2000 to 2005. Between 2001 and 2018 she worked at the Hungarian Television as assistant director, technical director and editor, co-creating several history programs and researching archive film news. Since September 1, 2018 she's been working at the Hungarian Film Archive as lead researcher, creating the 100 year old newsreels series.