Expanding World Relationships (1947)

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.

Released July 14, 1947 10 min None+

Genres: Animation, Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.foreign-policy, imdb.educational, aspectratio.1-33-1

Production Companies: United States Government, United Productions of America (UPA)

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English