IUP - Film History: An International Journal the This essay examines Land of Liberty the federal government"s 1939 New York World"s Fair exhibition. Assuming the modest role for editor, Cecil B. DeMille used excerpts from approximately 125 Hollywood fiction films of create that has since been forgotten and thus wrongly omitted from American documentary history. a , a compilation film to hybrid form that tells “the entirety” of US history. This feature-length, epic documentary was produced by Will Hays and the MPPDA