March On, America!

This uncritical hagiography of our history pieces together a lot of stock footage from other films and was a superpatriotic morale booster for the home front and for the people going into the Armed Services. I doubt it could be shown in any social studies classroom today in an elementary school.

You have to take it for what is worth given this is fresh on the heels of Pearl Harbor. Folks like Frank McGlynn, Sr. and Sidney Blackmer who were known for playing Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt are here as many other familiar places.

I'd venture to guess there were not many Moscowitzes, Kellys, and Pulaskis on the Mayflower where this starts. Wouldn't do to have it start at Jamestown where a year before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, the first slaves from Africa were imported. Slavery gets not a mention here.

The makers of this short give a great argument for Manifest Destiny a phrase that came into usage. That is the notion we were destined by the Almighty to expand from ocean to ocean. Doesn't leave much room for those already here.

This short subject is way behind the times.