Official United States war films / H. Devitt Welsh. – Historic Print
![Official United States war films / H. Devitt Welsh., Cleveland, O[hio] : The Morgan Litho. Co., [1917] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c8e0ba5b5a5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Official United States war films / H. Devitt Welsh.
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Few pictures on this board come from the government side of the war, and this title points to the official effort to film it. After the United States entered the conflict in April 1917, the Army Signal Corps and the newly formed Committee on Public Information began producing films that showed American troops, training camps, and home-front mobilization to audiences at home. Because the footage was meant to build morale and support recruitment, it offers a polished, carefully staged view of the war. Today it is valuable both as a record of the period and as an example of how wartime governments used the new medium of motion pictures.
| Created / published | Cleveland, O[hio] : The Morgan Litho. Co., [1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 107 x 72 cm. |
| Genre | Motion picture posters American 1910-1920.War posters American 1910-1920.Lithographs Color 1910-1920. |
| Notes | Produced by Signal Corps USA and Committee on Public Information. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection. |
| Subjects | World War, 1914-1918--Communications--United States. Battleships--American--1910-1920. Searchlights--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,595 × 4,452 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222360 |
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