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- Title
A Social History of US Educational Documentary: The Travels of Three Shorts, 1945-1958.
- Abstract
This essay studies three documentary shorts on schools in the United States, France, and premandate Palestine that were made in the wake of World War II. Documentation from film archives, manuscript collections, newspapers, periodicals, and educational curricula shows how the shorts were produced for postwar internationalism and later repurposed by US film institutions within midcentury discourses of progressive schooling. Local newspapers reveal how organizations adopted, negotiated, and ignored distribution mandates when they screened the films. The history of the travels of these shorts provides new contours on the expanding historiography of useful educational film.
- Subjects
DOCUMENTARY films -- History &; criticism; EDUCATIONAL films; SHORT films; INTERNATIONALISM; MOTION picture audiences; HACKENSCHMIED, Alexander; VICAS, Victor; LERSKI, Helmar; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY; FILM criticism
- Publication
Film History, 2017, Vol 29, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/filmhistory.29.3.01