Council. Good afternoon. We have a Different Event for you this afternoon. Thank you for coming. The title of i say this is a little bit unusual because this is kind of a deeper dive than usual into history. It is very fornt understand the past and understand what we are today. We spend a little more time on the historical today than on the current dimension. It has gotten short since the awful events in the early 1930s. We have a wonderful panel for you today. I dont think i need to name all of them. You have people well prepared to discuss this very serious topic. Let me just say two more things. One, this event is timed in part to something very unusual. A full length regular movie, bitter harvest is coming to a theater near you later this week. You may have seen this over the weekend. I have seen it. I have seen it more than once. It keeps your attention. It is a way to do this in this post modernest age. You can follow us at at futureukraine. I think im done. I think ill introduce
Address in 2017. Our competition is open to all middle school and High School Students grade six through 12. Students can work alone or in a group of up to three for producing fiveminute documentary on the issue selected. A grand prize of 5,000 will go to the student or team with the best overall entry. 100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded and shared between 150 students and 53 teachers. This years deadline is january 20th, 2017. Thats inauguration day. For more information about the competition, go to our website, studentcam. Org. On november 11th, 1921, an estimated 100,000 people gathered at Arlington Cemetery in virginia for a ceremony honoring unknown soldier of war i. U. S. Army signal corps created film documenting journey from france to capital rotunda and its procession through arlington from the streets of washington, d. C. Up next well show you the entire 23minute film with narration provided by two world war i historians. Welcome to real america on American History tv. 20
Address in 2017. Our competition is open to all middle school and High School Students grade six through 12. Students can work alone or in a group of up to three for producing fiveminute documentary on the issue selected. A grand prize of 5,000 will go to the student or team with the best overall entry. 100,000 in cash prizes will be awarded and shared between 150 students and 53 teachers. This years deadline is january 20th, 2017. Thats inauguration day. For more information about the competition, go to our website, studentcam. Org. On november 11th, 1921, an estimated 100,000 people gathered at Arlington Cemetery in virginia for a ceremony honoring unknown soldier of war i. U. S. Army signal corps created film documenting journey from france to capital rotunda and its procession through arlington from the streets of washington, d. C. Up next well show you the entire 23minute film with narration provided by two world war i historians. Welcome to real america on American History tv. 20
Welcome to real american, 2017, 2018 is centennial of americas involvement in world war ii and it will be lots of discussion about the impact of that war on the world and on american society. As part of that conversation, we are going to show you some vintage films from that era that document americas participation. And to help us understand this, because these are silent films, weve invited two world war i historians to help us narrate the action of the film. Theyll be with us to look at 23minute film from 1921 that is on the arrival of the unknown soldier to america shores. As we start here, before we see the film, who saw these kind of films at the time that they were made . Were they made for the American Public. I think in many ways the films were made to document the events, historians were military people who were involved with them. They might have been shown on news reels. This was really an important moment in the commemorative culture that was developed in the u. S. After wo
Included the procession to arlington through the streets of washington, d. C. We will show you the entire 23minute silent film, with narration by two world war i historians. It is the centennial of the american involvement in world war i, and there will be undoubtedly lots of discussion about the effects of that war on the world and on american society. As part of that conversation, we are going to show you some vintage films from that era that document american participation, and to help us understand this, because they are silent films, we have invited two world war i historians. They will be with us to look at on a look at the film. , before we start the film, who saw these kinds of films at the time they were made . Think in many ways, the films were meant to document the events are the people who were involved in them. They might have been shown a newsreel. This was a really important moment in the commemorative culture that was developing in the u. S. After world war i. We wanted