# Letter from Bataan

Short melodrama about a letter from a soldier who was killed in action at Bataan. As the letter is read aloud by the soldiers mother on the front porch to the rest of family, the ghost of the dead soldier elaborates on pieces of the letter as they are read, and the sacrifices that need to made to provide essential materials and food for soldiers overseas.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1941
- By: William C. Thomas
- Genres: War
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/a_letter_from_bataan)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.