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America
Goes Over
(1918)

Produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1918, this manipulative slice of propaganda purports to document the efforts of the American Expeditionary Forces serving under General John J. Pershing in World War I. With the requisite battle footage, the film also covers the front line conditions in the latter days of the war.

A2ZCDS
2005 DVD edition

America Goes Over (1918), black & white, 58 minutes, not rated.

A2ZCDS, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; English language intertitles, no subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $19.95.
Release date: 21 March 2005.
Country of origin: USA

While this DVD edition is not budget priced, we suspect that it is of budget quality. That is to say that is has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.

Not recommended, sight unseen.

This Region 0 NTSC DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .

Other WORLD WAR I FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

Other DOCUMENTARY FILMS of the silent era available on home video.

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