Town, The

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Town, The is a short film from 1945 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

Shows life in an American town, Madison, Indiana, and explains the democratic characteristics of the social and civic life of the people.

06:23:05:00 The Town 19198 Highly-idealized portrait of American life for Europeans during WW2.

Great civilians meet the conquering army sequence: 06:33:24:00 med wide shot of troops walking through Spanish/Italian village 06:33:28:00 wide shot of troops walking through streets of European town - crowds of people on the streets 06:33:31:00 med shot of truck full of troops, surrounded by happy crowd of

civilians (06:33:34:00)

Town, The
Produced byU.S. Office of War Information, Overseas Branch
Production
companies
U.S. Office of War Information, Overseas Branch
Distributed byU.S. Office of War Information, Overseas Branch
Release date
1945
Running time
10:11
LanguageEnglish
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