Product Highlights
America Goes Over is a Campbell Films DVD collecting early U.S. Signal Corps newsreel footage from World War I, with a combined runtime of 1 hour 13 minutes in black and white, silent.
Features
- Produced by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1918, among the earliest government newsreel efforts
- Footage of recruits being inspected
- Battle scenes, including heavy artillery and aerial dogfights
- Trench life, from slop buckets to prisoner interrogations
- Footage of soldiers' animal mascots
- Includes The Sinking of the Lusitania, Winsor McCay's 1918 animated short depicting the RMS Lusitania's sinking by a German U-boat
