Film

Expanding World Relationships

1947 · 10m · Documentary · Animation

This movie was the brain-child of S.W. Boggs, the U.S. Department of State’s official geographer (1927-1954). Graphic artist Boris Artzybasheff was allegedly recruited as a consultant for the effort, according to Timothy Barney, Mapping the Cold War: Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power, 2015. Unfortunately, the creative ideas Boggs described below - using aliens and spaceships - never made it into the movie. Instead, the movie is a relatively straight-forward animated map movie with a theme of growing globalization.

• David HilbermanDirector

Release date

July 14, 1947

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

10m

Genres

Documentary, Animation