In the 1950's~1960's when the Cold War was at its full height, it was not widely known that the main public relations activities of the USIS was through news broadcast and culture films was focused in the Kyungnam Changwon district.
There only has be...
In the 1950's~1960's when the Cold War was at its full height, it was not widely known that the main public relations activities of the USIS was through news broadcast and culture films was focused in the Kyungnam Changwon district.
There only has been a brief coverage through the publications and testimonies of extremely partial number of researchers or the limited number of employees of the USIS Production and Laboratory Services Unit in the Kyungnam district.
But the writings and the testimonies were far too fragmentary that it does not coincide with historical facts. The objective of this research is the investigate the USIS film production and its film contents to fill in the blanks of the film history and also the socio-cultural history of the Kyungnam district.
Under these research objectives this thesis will examine the below three theme. At first, the function and role of the USIS. Second, characteristics and activities of USIS in the Kyoungnam district. At last, analysis of two culture-films, <The Street Light House, 1955> and <The Local Newspaper Editor, 1958> which was made by Sangnam film studio during that period.