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Movies at War (U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1944)

For Orphans 2020 Online, NYU PhD candidate Tanya Goldman has created a video introduction to Movies at War (1944) — an episode of the U.S. Army Signal Corps “Film Bulletin” series. She discusses how the film’s depiction of the global transport of film reels allows viewers to make sense of a complex media infrastructure and how the use of portable 16mm projectors gave life to a multi-sited nontheatrical circuit. As the Movies at War narrator proclaims, army effort propelled “entertainment unreeling to span the universe!” Play her introduction (13 min.), with a 9 min. excerpt from Movies at War:  https://vimeo.com/418490057 …And there’s

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From the LOC vaults: American Labor short MILLIONS OF US (1935)

The first and (as of 2021) only web access to the film Millions of Us is via scholar Tanya Goldman’s YouTube channel, which hosts the file the Library of Congress made upon scanning a 16mm print of this public domain work. Screen credits: American Labor Pictures, Inc. presents: Millions of Us: A Story of Today, directed by Jack Smith and Tina Taylor; written by Gail West; asst. director George Buck; photographed by Mark. Cast: Bud MacTaggart (unemployed), Glen Neufer (striker), Wesley Ferguson (union organizer). sound, 16 min., b&w, 1935-36. (Prelinger Archives posted an incomplete version with no audio track at archive.org.)

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