U.S. Official War Pictures. 1917.

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U.S. Official War Pictures. 1917.
Because film was the most effective way of reaching and eliciting a response from the American public during the War, “the Committee on Public Information became the official distributor for movies taken by military cameramen... When films began to arrive from France (censored of hardship, mutilation, and atrocity), the Committee would make duplicate prints of those thought most useful to the war effort and distribute them to the news media, to libraries, and to historical societies. The bulk of the motion picture footage shot at the front was made available, for a fee, to the weekly film-news syndicates. Experienced film editors did what they could to put the remaining footage into stirring movies to distribute free among state councils of defense and various patriotic societies” (Rawls, p. 141 and 143). Provenance: Hans Sachs collection.

Size: 28 3/8 x 41 in./72 x 104 cm
Condition: B+/ Unobtrusive folds.
Printer: The Hegeman Print, New York
Reference: Rawls, p. 139; Modern American Poster, 26; PAI-LXXX, 96
Key Words: Art Nouveau; War & Propaganda; American