[Frameworks] leads for research on USIA and avant-garde film?

[Chuck Kleinhans]

While not avant garde in the usual sense, various people who lived abroad at that time told me that the films of the US Space Program were among the most seen USIA films.  They were available from Embassies and consulates and sought after not only for their spectacular images, but for being not obviously didactic, as so many of the other USIA films were.  Also these films were free to nonprofits like schools.

As you know, but others may not, Congress prohibited USIA films from being shown in the USA itself: Congress reisted the idea of the Executive branch making “propaganda” to be seen at home.  Many take it that the Civil Rights movement was a major thing Congress wanted to block any discussion of.



Chuck Kleinhans
chuckkle at northwestern.edu<mailto:chuckkle at northwestern.edu>



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