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Projections of America. Click here to forward to Projections of America ... John Lithgow narrates the story of a team of filmmakers who, during the darkest hour of global war, hoped the power of the movies could reshape the world.
Projections of America: Directed by Peter Miller. With John Lithgow, Victoria Riskin, Ian Scott, Kenneth Turan. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Peter Miller
- 2015-03
The PROJECTIONS OF AMERICA films presented American stories – of cowboys and oilmen, farmers and window washers, immigrants and school children – capturing the optimism and messiness of American democracy.
- The Cowboy
- Autobiography of A Jeep
- A Journey, The Town, and The Cummington Story
The Cowboy, a story on the American West, was a documentary created for the purpose of dispelling the false idea that American cowboys were like those portrayed in popular Hollywood westerns. Written by Arthur Arent and narrated by actor Ralph Bellamy,The Cowboywas filmed on location, using Marfa, Texas as the backdrop for the American West. The fi...
The Projections of America series was mainly filmed with original scenes that were shot on location. Only one film, Autobiography of a Jeep, was different. The film included archival footage used to create a compilation of scenes that helped tell the story of the life of an American jeep. Translated into 16 languages, Autobiography of a Jeeptells t...
All documentaries within Projections of America had a central message to relay to viewers.A Journey focused on how ordinary citizens adapted to disruptions of war manufacturing in towns from Alabama to the Rocky Mountains. The Town featured American’s “melting pot” in a rural Indiana town, and aimed to show the small town not as a naïve community d...
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Der Film erzählt die dramatische Geschichte einer Gruppe von Visionären im Office of War Information und die ihres charismatischen Chefs: dem Oskar-Preisträger Robert Riskin. Zur Webseite zum Film „Projections of America”
Kurzinhalt. Eine geheime Propagandaeinheit der amerikanischen Armee sollte im Zweiten Weltkrieg ein neues Bild von Amerika entwerfen und es dem Feind vermitteln.
During the darkest hour of World War II, a team of idealistic filmmakers were commissioned by the American government to create 26 short propaganda pieces about life in the United States. The Projections of America series presents stories of cowboys and oilmen, farmers and window washers, immigrants and schoolchildren, capturing both the ...
