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Company FormationĪbout three days after arriving at Cape May, you and the people with whom you arrived will become a Recruit Training Company. At the end of forming, you may not feel like a military member, but you will begin to look and act like one. This is the first huge step toward your transition from civilian to Coast Guardsman. Your hair is cut if needed, initial medical screening is performed, uniform issue begins, and there are a host of other administrative events. Honorable Mentions for 2017 include Don’t Be a Sucker, Union and Community, and Endless Chain.When you arrive at the Coast Guard’s training center at Cape May, N.J., on the bus, the forming process begins. Men of the Forest came to the lab for inspection as part of a larger project to process the backlog of films from the United States Information Agency.Įvery year we see so many great films that it’s hard to narrow it down to just five. In fact, we haven’t seen anything like it before. It would be hard to overstate how rare this is in government films. Unlike those films, Men of the Forest features a black family as the core protagonists. Like many of the New Deal documentaries, Men of the Forest is beautifully shot. In theme and form, Men of the Forest echoes New Deal films like We Work Again or Power and the Land that show the value of labor and how technology can improve workers’ lives. By the conclusion, the Hunters buy their power saw, and with the profit from the additional timber they cut, they buy Mother a sewing machine and fix up their home. The Hunters scrimp and save Mother gives up her sewing machine fund and the sons forgo treats on a trip to town. James forges a plan for the Hunter family to save the needed funds so they, too, can have a power saw and with it, an opportunity to improve their lives. James notices that other families have power saws and can cut more trees every day. The film begins when James, on summer vacation and finally old enough to join his father and brother working in the woods, wakes up excited to start his day. Men of the Forest is about the Hunter family, centering on the youngest son, James. There are three things to know about Men of the Forest: It features an African-American family in rural Georgia, it was made by the United States Information Agency for overseas audiences, and we’ve seen nothing else like it in our holdings. The film does not gloss over how hard it is to adapt to a new culture, but Miwako gradually begins to fit in, particularly after she and her husband start a business making and selling bamboo housewares.įor more stories of women like Miwako, read “The Untold Stories of Japanese War Brides” by Kathryn Tolbert in The Washington Post. For the most part people are welcoming, but Miwako struggles to feel comfortable, especially with the English language. The film is the story of Miwako, who moves to Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and must learn to adjust to American life. Army Signal Corps’ Civil Affairs Division, likely to be shown to Japanese women and their families. Japanese Bride in America was produced that same year by the U.S. immigration laws made it difficult for the women to move to the United States with their husbands, the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act removed legal barriers. Reconnaissance Pilot, 1943 ( 342-SFP-125)Īfter World War II, many GIs stationed in Japan married Japanese women. The child responds, “Well, who cares anyway? I’ve got better things to do than waste my time talking to rude rocks.” The rock gets the last laugh, quite literally, with the film closing out on bright flute music and the rock’s demonic chuckle. The rock declines and decides to take a 75,000 year nap instead. The child, now apparently fascinated, asks the rock to talk to his friends. The film then switches gears and becomes an animated geology lesson, but happily returns to the puppets.
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When the rock explains that it was actually here first, the child responds in disbelief, “For a talking rock, you sure do lie a lot.” He beats the rock with his butterfly net, and then injures his foot when he kicks it.
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In the film, a possibly sociopathic child becomes angry at a sentient rock after he trips over it. The newest addition to our list of marionette productions, Rock Creek Park Puppet Show, came down this year for inspection as a new accession. Here in the lab we have a fondness for government films starring puppets, probably because the examples we hold go so far off the rails.