The Story of Our Flag (1939)
1939 · Ephemeral film · 10 min
- Documentary
- Short
- History
Synopsis
The history of America's familiar Stars and Stripes flag is chronicled, alongside the historical events that shaped America from its colonial roots through its expansion into a union of 48 states, with an empire extending into the Pacific.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1939-01-01
- Running time
- 10 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
- Douglas Harlon
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · God Bless Ameri · Spuzz · 2016-02-05
Fun little historical film teaching us all we need to know about how the great flag sorta came to be, while omitting some minor points (Betsy ross, meh!) this film DOES offer some history that I wasn't aware of. Having said that, this film probably wins the award for most use of stock footage ever. Repeats, running the film backward and lame stock footage are all here. The best part is the end though,you see, the film has, uh, a couple of pieces missing, so the backward and forward moving flag AND the trunciated anthem made for a perfect ending.
