The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) will screen prints of three films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin this month in Los Angeles. Two suppressed World War II documentaries, The Battle of San Pietro and Let There Be Light, directed by John Huston, will be shown as part of the John Huston Lecture on Documentary Film on April 15, 7:30 p.m., at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The films are scheduled to be introduced by the director’s son, Tony Huston, and will be followed by a panel discussion. Tiomkin served as music director for both documentaries. Filmed in 1946, Let There Be Light focuses on the mental problems suffered by veterans after their return home from the war. Banned for decades by the War Department, it was first released to the public in 1981. Time magazine called The Battle of San Pietro “as good a war film as any that has been made; in some respects it is the best.” The score for San Pietro features the Army Air Force Orchestra, supplemented by twenty civilian musicians, the St. Brendan Church boys’ choir, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Music from San Pietro can be heard on the Film Music Society CD release The World War II Documentary Music of Dimitri Tiomkin, available at www.filmmusicsociety.org. Music from this CD will be played in the theater prior to the program.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, also scored by Tiomkin, will be part of the Academy’s Gold Standard screening series in a double feature with Hitchcock’s Lifeboat. The program takes place April 18, 7 p.m., at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The films are being screened in conjunction with the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery exhibit Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film. The exhibit was on view most recently at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and was organized by the museum in collaboration with the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library. On April 18, the Fourth Floor Gallery will hold special viewing hours from 5 to 7 p.m. and following the screening. The exhibit runs through Sunday, April 20.

Tickets for the general public can be purchased for US$5 for each event. For more information, log on to www.oscars.org or contact AMPAS at (310) 247-3600.