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Ford Presidential Library AMERICA AT THE MOVIES "The movies," writes Librarian of Congress the guilds and the many individual artists. Daniel J. Boorstin, "were an American in I am grateful to the American Film In vention which, more than any before, focused stitute, an independent non-profit organiza the vision of the world. And motion pictures tion serving the public interest which became the great democratic art, which was established by The National Endowment naturally enough, was the characteristic for the Arts in 1967 to advance the art American art." and preserve the heritage of film in America. It is for this reason that the American I am especially grateful to its Director, Revolution Bicentennial Administration in George A. Stevens, Jr., whose creativity association with The American Film guided this project throughout. Institute offers a film for the American people and the world as we celebrate our Bicentennial in 1976. "America at the Movies" traces how the United States has been portrayed on the screen for over three-quarters of a century. John W. Warner Compiled of great scenes drawn from nearly Administrator a hundred films, it shows the boundless di versity of the American experience---11. American Revolution national family album. Bicentennial Administration This motion picture was made possible by the enthusiastic participation of all seg ments of the American motion picture in dustry-the producing companies, the unions, America. America Plymourh Advenrure The frontier was the great American legend. Across the screen moved moun tain men and settlers, cowboys and sodbusters struggling to subdue the land.... My Darling Clementine Sergeant York The Gnpes of Wrath Rio Grande THE ES For the movies, the city was the place where the action was. Here, you could slam your way to fame, sell an idea, meet a girl. In streets that never slept walked the casts of a thousand movies... San Francisco Citizen Kane Claudine ., .: 'f!" •J.,I I --,._.. -~,.i,w- -.j_ ~ . ~~--l ~""':" . , -~ ' . :/ v44(.,. ... ~ ~ f~ ~~ ' - ·, _, \~ America was built on the family, and so were the movies. The family was the nation in miniature and from it the movies portrayed a gallery of sweethearts, parents, grandparents and children-all part of the oldest, the most intimate human drama.... A Raisin in the Sun During two hundred years, the nation fought wars in different places for different reasons. The places changed, the reasons changed, but not the fighting men-and it was their story the movies told. .. RS Friendly Persuasion Since You Went Away Drums Along the Mohawk lHESPIRIT The movies shared with us a great and simple secret-that often there is more truth in the dream than in the facts. And the movies conveyed a special spirit to audiences around the world.... Treasure of the Sierra Madre AMERICA AT THE MOVIES The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Presents America At The Movies A Production of The American Film Institute Film Design by American Revolution Alamo, The Maltese Falcon, The James R. Silke Bicentennial Administration America, America M.A.S.H. Jack Masey Project Director McCabe and Mrs. Miller Produced by Asphalt Jungle Midnight Cowboy George Stevens, Jr. Production Committee for Battleground Miracle Worker, The The American Film Institute Narration Written by Birth of a Nation, The Modern Times David Brown Theodore Strauss Bright Eyes Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Charlton Heston Buccaneer, The My Darling Clementine Narration Spoken by FayKanin Bumping Into Broadway Charlton Heston Walter Mirisch On theWaterfront David Picker Associate Producer Carnal Knowledge Once Upon a Time in the West Franklin J. Schaffner Harrison Engle Catch 22 Out-of-Towners, The David L. Wolper Film Editor Cheyenne Autumn Paint Your Wagon David Saxon, A.C.E. Distribution Committee Cimarron Gordon Stulberg Citizen Kane Patton Title Music Arranged and Conducted by Ted Ashley Claudine Pharmacist, The Nelson Riddle David Begelman Crowd, The Place in the Sun, A Plymouth Adventure Historical Consultant Donald Gillen Dinner At Eight Pony Express Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Deane Johnson Dr. Strangelove The American Film Institute is Design Consultant Drums Along the Mohawk Raisin in the Sun, A extremely grateful to the following Ivan Chermayeff Red Badge of Courage, The organizations and individuals whose East of Eden Red River Associate Film Editors cooperation made this film possible Ride the High Country Joseph Parker Allied Artists Father of the Bride Rio Grande Ana Luisa Corley Perez A vco Embassy Pictures Five Easy Pieces Run Silent, Run Deep Production Assistants Columbia Pictures Fort Apache Judith C. Scott Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer French Connection, The San Francisco Dency Nelson Paramount Pictures Friendly Persuasion Searchers, The Sandra Feller Zank 20th Century-Fox From Here to Eternity Sergeant York Shane Titles by United Artists Warner Bros. Giant Since You Went Away Chermayeff & Geismar Associates The Motion Picture Association Spirit of St. Louis, The and Go West of America Godfather, II Steamboat Bill, Jr. Wayne Fitzgerald Gold Diggers of 1935 Streetcar Named Desire, A American Broadcasting Co. Graduate, The Sir Charles Chaplin Grapes of Wrath, The Take the Money and Run Epoch Producing Corp. They Were Expendable Paul Killiam Collection High Noon Treasure of the Sierra Madre National Telefilm Associates How the West Was Won True Grit RKO Radio Pictures Hustler, The 2001: A Space Odyssey Hal Roach Studios Raymond Rohauer It Happened One Night Way Out West Time-Life Films It's a Wonderful Life West Side Story The American Federation of Musicians Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Directors Guild of America Jesse James Woman Rebels, A Screen Actors Guild Writers Guild of America Life with Father Yankee Doodle Dandy Little Caesar The Library of Congress Love Finds Andy Hardy UCLA Film Archives The Wolper Organization .. The Screenwriters Peter Milne Henry Ginsberg Ivan Moffat Edmund Grainger Felix Adler Berenice Mosk D.W. Griffith Woody Allen Edmund H. North Raymond Griffith Robert Altman FrankS. Nugent Howard Hawks America At The Movies Albert Band Paul Osborn Leland Hayward includes the work of a great Harry Behn James Parrott Harold Hecht range of artists and crafts- William Bowers Sam Peckinpah Jerome Hellman people, including the follow- Irving Brecher Lester Pine Nat Holt ing performers, directors, Harry Brown Tina Pine Arthur Hornblow, Jr. writers and producers. Sidney Buchman Robert Pirosh Bernard H. Hyman Robert Buckner Mario Puzo Charles Joffe The Players The Directors Edwin Burke Robert Riskin Nunnally Johnson David Butler Marguerite Roberts EliaKazan Woody Allen Joel McCrea Woody Allen Sidney Carroll Charles Rogers Stanley Kramer Alan Arkin Dorothy McGuire Robert Altman Harry Chandlee Mickey Rose Stanley Kubrick Jean Arthur Rita Moreno Busby Berkeley Charlie Chaplin Robert Rossen Jesse L. Lasky Martin Balsam Audie Murphy Clarence Brown Borden Chase Waldo Salt Stan Laurel Anne Bancroft Paul Newman David Butler Arthur C. Clarke Budd Schulberg Ernest Lehman Wallace Beery Jack Nicholson Edward Buzzell Francis Ford Coppola Arnold Schulman Alan J. Lerner Richard Benjamin Warren Oates Frank Capra Helen Deutsch Manuel Seff Joseph E. Levine Joan Bennett Gregory Peck Charlie Chaplin Sergio Donati William Sellers Richard E. Lyons Candice Bergen Anthony Perkins Francis Ford Coppola Samuel G. Engel David 0. Selznick Frank McCarthy Humphrey Bogart Slim Pickens John Cromwell Julius]. Epstein Jack Sher Fulvio Marsella Marlon Brando Sidney Poirier George Cukor Philip G. Epstein Neil Simon Paul Nathan Walter Brennan William Powell Michael Curtiz Francis Farough Terry Southern Mike Nichols Richard Burton Tyrone Power John Ford Tules Feiffer Donald Ogden Stewart lngo Preminger James Cagney John Qualen William Friedkin W.C. Fields N.B. Stone, Jr. Bob Rafelson Diahann Carroll Donna Reed D.W. Griffith Abem Finkel Daniel Taradash Gottfried Reinhardt George Chakiris Edward G. Robinson Henry Hathaway Carl Foreman Ernest Tidyman Hal Roach Charlie Chaplin Mickey Rooney Howard Hawks John Gay Lamar Trotti Fred Roos Montgomery Clift Katharine Ross Arthur Hiller Peter George Ernest Vajda Philip Rose Claudette Colbert George C. Scott Jerry Hopper William Gibson Anthony Veiller Robert Rossen Walter Connolly Randolph Scott James W. Horne Frances Goodrich King Vidor Dore Schary Elisha Cook, Jr. George Segal John Huston James Edward Grant Charles Marquis Warren Bert Schneider Gary Cooper Rod Steiger Elia Kazan D.W. Griffith Frank Wead David 0. Selznick Jane Darwell James Stewart Henry King Fred Guiol John V.A. Weaver Mack Sennett James Dean Elizabeth Taylor