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The Catalog background and purpose The United States Office of Education, as part of its responsibility to furnish American schools and colleges with information about the educational materials and services of the Federal Government, initiated in the fall of 1949 a project calling for the periodic compilation of information about the films of U. S. Government agencies and the subsequent publication of a catalog, with supplements and revisions as needed, of those films which are available for public use in the United States 1 . In February 1950 the Bureau of the Budget, by direction of the President, issued a circular to the heads of all executive departments and establish- ments of the Federal Government calling their attention to the preparation of such a catalog and requesting that certain basic information about their films be furnished to the Office of Education. In its circular, the Bureau of the Budget stressed the following values of a catalog of U. S. Government films: "It is anticipated (a) that the information so compiled and the catalog, with supplements and revisions as needed, will be helpful not only to educational institutions, other community organizations, and the general public but also to all departments and establishments of the Government; (b) that it will facilitate and expedite the answering of inquiries addressed to the Govern- ment concerning the existence and availability of Government films; and (c) that it will provide all departments and establishments with a central information source on the existence of Government films." scope of the catalog In the preparation of this catalog, four basic criteria have been used in defining its scope—that is, in defining a U. S. Government film. In the first place, "U. S. Government" has been interpreted to include all agencies of the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the Federal Government (including wholly owned Government corporations). But not included in this catalog are films of quasi-official agencies such as the American Red Cross; of international agencies such as the Pan American Union and the United Nations; or of State and local governments. 1 Three similar catalogs have been published previously: Office of Education, Directory of U.S. Government Films, 1940; Office of Education, U.S. Government Motion Pictures and Filmstrips, 1945; and Library of Con- gress, Guide to United States Government Motion Pictures, 1947. All are now out of print. iv