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America’s Answer: Following the Fleet to France
Also known as [America’s Answer to the Hun]
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: (unknown)

United States Committee on Public Information, Division of Films, production; distributed by United States Committee on Public Information. / Cinematography by the U.S. Signal Corps, Photographic Division. Compiled and assembled (film edited) by R.L. Hall and Madame M.L. Ginoris. Intertitles written by Kenneth C. Beaton. / Released 29 July 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The second of a series of three ‘official’ American films on the war; the first was Pershing’s Crusaders (1918) and the third was Under Four Flags (1918). The film’s distribution was assumed by World Film Corporation beginning in October 1918.

Documentary: World War I.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0108.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Combat - France - Red Cross - Salvation Army - Transports - Trenches - Troops - United States Army - United States Navy - War: World War I (28 July 1914-11 November 1918) - Young Men’s Christian Association

Listing updated: 10 June 2008.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0108; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 11.