America Goes Over (Parts 3-5) (1927, silent)

Description: Content warning: Includes images of dead soldiers on the battlefield.

Film documenting the activities of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I under General John J. Pershing (parts 3-5 of 5 total). This film was widely copied and distributed and is held by many collectors and archives.

Featuring laborers of color at 5:33-5:44 moving supply crates and building the railroad.

Can notes: ""America Goes Over" 3-5 / 1927 print- silent"

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Subjects: 1910s,War,World War I

Tags: soldiers; shaving heads; The Salvation Army; troops; combat; trenches; dead soldiers; crossdressing; artillery; airplanes; cannons; guns; victory celebrations; Morse code; loading and firing cannons; waving at camera; drawings; comics; political cartoons; intertitles; dressing wounds; walking through mud; burning ballons; milking goats; drag performance; gender bending; persons of color; people of color; battlefields; American flags; French flags

Film Sponsor:

Creator: U.S. Army Signal Corps

Credits:

Distributor: Committee on Public Information

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: John Carlson Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1918

Release Date: 1927

Geographical Location: USA; France

Genre/Form: military, silent, government

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print, positive

Color: color

Color Process: tinted

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 1227