https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/a44c083c-1e2d-4ece-81a2-ebea13e0840c Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com During WWII, cinematographer Arthur E. Arling (who had worked as a camera operator on 1939's "Gone With the Wind") was drafted into the U.S. Navy and put to work making motion pictures. One of these films was "Your National Gallery", an Academy Award nominated short directed by Thomas Mead and released in 1945. The footage shown here is apparently dailies or test footage for that production. The footage includes shots of cherry blossoms on the trees near the Jefferson Memorial and tidal basin, a woman (3:31) posing with the blossoms, shots of a young boy playing by the basin (4:29), the Washington Monument as seen from the basin (5:36), U.S. flag with the Washington Monument in the distance (6:22), old Smithsonian building and Capitol Building in distance with U.S. flag in foreground on the Mall (7:17), soldier holding flag in front of Washington Monument (7:49), shots of artwork inside National Gallery including portait of Therese Louise de Sureda by Francisco de Goya (8:40), exterior views of National Gallery of Art (10:45). Arthur E. Arling, A.S.C. (1906 – 1991) was a Hollywood cinematographer and cameraman. His early work included 1939's Gone with the Wind and 1946's The Yearling, for which he won a joint Oscar which he shared with Charles Rosher and Leonard Smith. He was nominated for an Oscar for the 1955 Lillian Roth biopic I'll Cry Tomorrow. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILBpvUjO5Y Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:40:33 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/a44c083c-1e2d-4ece-81a2-ebea13e0840c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.