Film, Video Web Page Mr. Smith goes to Washington Mister Smith goes to Washington / Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington

Title

• Mr. Smith goes to Washington

Other Title

• Mister Smith goes to Washington
• Frank Capra's Mr. Smith goes to Washington

Summary

• Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Thomas Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal.

Names

• Capra, Frank, 1897-1991, direction, production.
• Buchman, Sidney, 1902-1975, writing.
• Foster, Lewis R., 1898-1974, writing.
• Stewart, James, 1908-1997, cast.
• Arthur, Jean, 1900-1991, cast.
• Rains, Claude, 1889-1967, cast.
• Columbia Pictures.
• Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Coca-Cola Company Collection (Library of Congress)
• Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection (Library of Congress)
• AFI/Mertz (Richard) Collection (Library of Congress)
• AFI/Columbia Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• United States : Columbia Pictures, 1939 ; United States : Columbia Pictures Home Entertainment, 1982?

Headings

• -  Political corruption--Drama

Genre

• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Political films

Notes

• -  LP2164 U.S. Copyright Office
• -  Copyright: Columbia Pictures Corp.; 10Oct39; LP2165.
• -  Copyright notice on cassette box: Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ; 1939.
• -  Story, Lewis R. Foster ; cinematography by Joseph Walker ; film editing by Al Clark, Gene Havlick ; music, Dimitri Tiomkin ; music director, M.W. Stoloff.
• -  James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi.
• -  Possible reissue date from OCLC record number 11047070.
• -  Running times and footages are taken from MAVIS records or other secondary sources, and have not been confirmed. Differences are likely due to methods of measurement.
• -  Although footage for the master pos track is longer than for the other elements, notes in the MAVIS record indicate that the track is incomplete.
• -  Summary taken from the Internet movie database, 12-14-2001.
• -  MAVIS 12412; Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
• -  LC also holds the restored version of this title.
• -  This film was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  Not viewed.
• -  Sources used: cassette box; Internet movie database, 12-14-2001.
• -  viewing copy; Received: 10-29-1990; gift; Coca-Cola Company Collection.
• -  16 mm. viewing print; Received: 1-21-1998; gift; Aubinoe (Alvin L., Jr.) Family Film Collection.
• -  16 mm. viewing print, copy 2; Received: 4-1-1994; gift, ATM 187L; AFI/Mertz (Richard) Collection.
• -  16 mm. viewing print, copy 3; Received: 1-29-1979 from DuArt Film and Video lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  35 mm. viewing print; Received: 8-25-1989 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  theatrical projection print; Received: 8-28-1989 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  dupe neg; Received: ca. 1969; gift; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  master pos; Received: 7-24-1972 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  master pos pic; Received: 6-25-1990 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  master pos pic, copy 2; Received: 1-5-1993 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  master pos track; Received: 8-2-1990 from LC film lab; preservation; AFI/Columbia Collection.
• -  Updated by qu10 (2001) and qu22 (2006).

Medium

• viewing copy. 1 videocassette of 1 (Beta) (ca. 129 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.
• viewing print. 13 film reels of 13 on 4 (ca. 129 min., ca. 4,650 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.
• viewing print (copy 2) 3 film reels (ca. 129 min., ca. 4,650 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.
• viewing print (copy 3) 13 film reels of 13 on 4 (ca. 129 min., 4,651 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 16 mm.
• viewing print. 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 136 min., 12,285 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.
• theatrical projection print. 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 136 min., 12,280 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.
• dupe neg. 13 film reels of 13 (ca. 133 min., 11,958 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.
• master pos. 13 film reels of 13 (ca. 129 min., 11,651 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm.
• master pos pic. 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 129 min., 11,646 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
• master pos pic (copy 2) 13 film reels of 13 (ca. 129 min., 11,653 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
• master pos track. 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 137 min., 12,375 ft.) : sd. ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• VAC 7546 (viewing copy)
• FCB 5121-5124 (viewing print)
• FDB 1807-1809 (viewing print, copy 2)
• FCA 7568-7571 (viewing print, copy 3)
• FGE 7542-7548 (viewing print)
• FQA 4677-4683 (theatrical projection print)
• FPE 7982-7994 (dupe neg)
• FPA 3693-3705 (master pos)
• FQA 9682-9688 (master pos pic)
• FPE 7995-8007 (master pos pic, copy 2)
• FQA 9689-9695 (master pos track)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 93506543

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/93506543

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record