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Film, Video Let's go America! : a screen editorial Variant title: Let's go America! America yesterday, today and tomorrow / Variant title: America yesterday, today and tomorrow / Let's go America! America yesterday, today and tomorrow / America yesterday, today and tomorrow

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Title

  • Let's go America! : a screen editorial

Other Title

  • Variant title: Let's go America! America yesterday, today and tomorrow
  • Variant title: America yesterday, today and tomorrow
  • Let's go America! America yesterday, today and tomorrow
  • America yesterday, today and tomorrow

Summary

  • "One of many films sponsored by the NAM during the Depression to foster faith in the economic leadership of its corporate members. Let's Go America! suggests that the creative spirit that led to America's development will continue to shape its economy. It ends with two young men and a woman driving a swank roadster toward the glowing future, which promises television, air conditioning, air travel, and innovative home design" -- Summary from Field Guide to Sponsored Films.

Names

  • Young, John S. (Radio announcer), narratation
  • Audio Productions
  • National Industrial Council (U.S.)
  • National Association of Manufacturers (U.S.)
  • Modern Talking Picture Service

Created / Published

  • United States : Distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service, 1936.

Headings

  • -  National characteristics, American
  • -  Manufacturing industries--United States
  • -  United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945

Genre

  • Sponsored films
  • Short films

Notes

  • -  Based on the subject America yesterday, today, tomorrow.
  • -  Narrator: John S. Young.
  • -  Sources used: National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed July 12, 2018; Field Guide to Sponsored Films, 2006, page 54.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (ca. 9 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • AFI/Turner Classic Movies (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018601241

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Chicago citation style:

Young, John S. , Narratation, Audio Productions, U.S National Industrial Council, U.S National Association Of Manufacturers, and Modern Talking Picture Service. Let's go America!: a screen editorial. United States: Distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service, 1936. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018601241/.

APA citation style:

Young, J. S., Audio Productions, National Industrial Council, U. S., National Association Of Manufacturers, U. S. & Modern Talking Picture Service. (1936) Let's go America!: a screen editorial. United States: Distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018601241/.

MLA citation style:

Young, John S. , Narratation, et al. Let's go America!: a screen editorial. United States: Distributed by Modern Talking Picture Service, 1936. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2018601241/>.