mitch yochelson and allison finklestein will be with us to look at a 23-minute film on the arrival of the unknown soldier to america's shores. allison finklestein, as we start here, before we actually see the film, who saw these kinds of films at the time that they were made? were they made for the american public? >> i think in many ways that the films were made to document the events for historians, for the military, for people who were involved with them. they might have been shown on news reels. but this was a really important moment in the commemorative culture that was developing in the u.s. after world war i. so they wanted to capture it on film and to record it for future generations. >> mitch yockelson, how was it preserved and how do people access today? who is in charge of this kind of precious resource? >> well, these are u.s. government films that were in some warehouse probably here in washington, d.c. and survived many years. and then eventually were transferred to the national archives, probably some time shortly after world war ii. and the archives had the original cu