One of the last times I heard it sung on screen was in the 'The Singing Detective' - the BBC series with Bob Hoskins and Mel Martin - well worth seeking out for the plot and the music. not the awful Hollywood production starring the 'awfuller' Steve Martin.
There was a remarkable documentary on the Great American Depression (the earlier, not the present one) entitled 'Buddy Can You Spare A Dime' which featured many songs of the era, including the very spooky 'suicide' composition 'Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep'.
I think we still have a VHS copy if it's survived the four intervening decades
Songs like these were made to draw people's attention away from what was happening at the time, but some still have an undercurrent.
Bad time - the film 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' still hits the mark when they repeat it, as they often do here in Ireland - 'The shape of things...?'
Jim Carroll