Screening the State: a Program of Government Films April 7Th 7:30PM – 9:00PM (EDT)

Screening the State: A Program of Government Films April 7th 7:30PM – 9:00PM (EDT)

The Land of Lofty Mountains (1936) National Park Service NARA Local Identifier: 48.65 Musical accompaniment composed and performed by Andrew Earle Simpson

Whoa Noah, ca. 1976 Department of Housing and Urban Development NARA Local Identifier: 207.436

Clip from Men of the Forest (1952) United States Information Service NARA Local Identifier: 306.824

Clip from Help Woodsy Spread the Word (1977) United States Forest Service NARA Local Identifier: 95.94

Batman for US Savings Bonds (1966) Department of the Treasury NARA Local Identifier: 56-BONDS-67 Featuring Adam West as Batman

Selections from Photographic Activities of the Signal Corps AEF and Examples of the Use of Motion Pictures in Military Training US Army Signal Corps (1917-1918) NARA Local Identifiers: 111-H-1400 & 111-H-1176 Musical accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson

Clip from Movies at War (1943) United States Army Signal Corps NARA Local Identifier: 111-FB-107

Clip from Lest We Forget Compiled by Norman Krasna from United States Army Air Forces Footage, ca. 1945 Presented by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM RG-60.4914, Norman Krasna Collection This film contains graphic footage that may not be suitable for all audiences.

Selections from Training During Combat (1944) United States Army Air Forces NARA Local Identifier: 18-CS-2583 Burton Blume shares his father, Wilbur T. Blume’s story of a life making government films and narrates the unfinished military film Training During Combat, which features the American novelist Joseph Heller.

Selections from Films from the "Alien Roundup" Series (1942) War Relocation Authority NARA Local IDs: 111-BW-403, 111-BW-406, 111-BW-415 Musical accompaniment composed and performed by Andrew Earle Simpson

Clip from Combat Fatigue: Irritability (1945) Department of the Navy, 1945 NARA Local Identifier: 80-MN-3428C Featuring Gene Kelly

Batgirl for Equal Pay (1973) US Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division NARA Local Identifier: 448.121 Featuring Yvonne Craig as Batgirl and Burt Ward as Robin

Clip from Space for Women (1981) National Aeronautics and Space Administration NARA Local Identifier: 255-HQ-301 Directed by William Greaves Narrated by Ricardo Montalbán

Clip from You've Got a Number (1974) Social Security Administration NARA Local Identifier: 47.62 Directed by William Greaves

200 (1976) Made by Vince Collins for the USIA Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Project NARA Local Identifier: 306.6897 Photosensitivity Warning: This film contains flashing images.

Selections from Akhbār-i Īrān [Iran News Series] (1954-62) United States Information Service NARA Local Identifiers: 306-IN-92, 306-IN-109, 306-IN-141, 306-IN-145, 306-IN-172, 306-IN-248, and 306-IN-249 Translated by Dr. Hadi Gharabaghi

Selections from Liberty News #446 (1962) United States Information Service NARA Local Identifier: 306-LN-446 Translated by Yoonjoo Strumfels and Dong Eun Kim

Clip from A Letter from Colombia (1963) United States Information Agency NARA Local Identifier: 263.2092 Directed by James Blue