- Title: V-A2911
- Summary: THE CHALLENGE OF IDEAS: COMMUNISM VS DEMOCRACY. BASIC VALUES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN COMMUNIST & DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS ANALIZED & DISCUSSED THE AMERICAN WAY: TO EXPLORE THE TRUTH, OUR CONCEPT OF THE DIGNITY OF MAN, HIS INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE RIGHT TO GOVERN HIMSELF IN A NATION UNDER GOD, IS SHARPLY CONTRASTED WITH THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM. AMERICANS BASIC HERITAGE PRESENTED WITH REASON & FORE THOUGHT. COMMUNIST SUBSTITUTES FOR A HOT WAR TO ATTAIN WORLD CONQUEST ARE CLEARLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGH THEIR POLITICAL METHODS, ECONOMIC GOALS, & IDEOLOGICAL PENETRATION TACTICS. STARRING EDWARD R. MORROW, JOHN WAYNE, FRANK MCGEE, HANSON W. BALDWIN, LOWELL THOMAS, HELEN HAYES. AMERICAN PROPAGANDA. GOD BLESS AMERICA. THE AMERICAN WAY. SMALL TOWN AMERICA. MAIN STREET USA.
- Description:00:58:13 - EARTH SEEN FROM SPACE. SPINS 00:58:22 - MONTAGE OF VARIOUS NATIONS PEOPLES. ARABIC, ORIENTAL, NARRATED BY EDWARD MORROW 00:58:29 - UNITED NATIONS MEETING CIRCA LATE 1950s - EARLY 1960s. DIPLOMATS IN DISCUSSION, MOS 00:58:37 - SHIPMENT BEING UNLOADED DONATED BY ECA. CARGO TO HELP NEEDY. CHARITY 00:58:41 - RUSSIAN ? DANCE. CULTURAL DANCING ETHNIC 00:58:44 - LIGHTING OF OLYMPIC TORCH. 00:58:51 - LS CAPITOL BUILDING 00:58:54 - JFK GIVING SPEECH, U.N., MOS 00:58:56 - EXTERIOR U.N. VARIOUS FLAGS FLYING. 00:59:00 - INTERIOR U.N. MEETING IN PROGRESS. 00:59:07 - MANHATTAN SKYLINE CIRCA EARLY 1960s. 00:59:29 - AMERICAN MEN IN VARIOUS UNIFORMS LEAVING FOR DUTY. SAILORS, ARMY, SERVICE MEN. FAMILYS OF SERVICE MEN, CIVILIANS WORKING FOR DEPT. OF DEFENSE. BOARD LINER-SHIP. 00:59:43 - MONTAGE OF U.S. SERVICEMEN IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES MAN TAKES PHOTO OF HIS FAMILY 00:59:51 - AIR FORCE BASE. PLANES ON TARMAC. READY FOR FLIGHT. 00:59:57 - AERIAL OVER SUBMARINE WITH HELICOPTER FOLLOWING IT. 01:00:01 - CU FRONT OF AIR CRAFT CARRIER 01:00:04 - ENTRANCE TO RUSSIAN ZONE. SOLDIERS LOOK THROUGH BINOCULARS. CU SIGN IN FRONT OF BUILDING. 01:00:08 - MAN STANDS IN FRONT OF U.S.ARMY RESERVE BUILDING ARMY OFFICER. CU SIGN IN FRONT 01:00:36 - DEFENSE WORKERS. IN PROTECTIVE SUITS 01:00:37 - CU "JOHN DOE" FILLING OUT 1040 INCOME TAX FORM 01:00:54 - U.N. MEETING. PANS MEMBERS, UNDER SECRETARY, DIRECTOR, U.K., USSR, 01:01:10 - MAIN STREET, U.S.A. PEOPLE WALK DOWN SMALL TOWN MAIN STREET. SHOPPING, HANGING OUT. PEOPLE WEAR 1950s CLOTHES. SADDLE SHOES. CU PAN CITIZENS, POLICEMAN 01:01:19 - TEACHES AT HEAD OF CLASSROOM. SCHOOL LEARNING 01:01:23 - OLD MEN SITTING LISTENING. MAN RAISES HAND TO ANSWER QUESTION 01:01:25 - TEACHER DRAWS TRIANGLE ON BLACKBOARD. 01:01:26 - TEEN GIRL RAISES HAND TO ANSWER QUESTION. 01:01:56 - MONTAGE CU PEOPLE FROM VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS 01:02:01 - MONTAGE KREMLIN, WHITE HOUSE 01:02:08 - MONTAGE OF PEOPLE AT PLAY. HORSESHOES, BEACH WALKING THROUGH WOODS. 01:02:18 - PRIEST 01:02:20 - MONTAGE OF PEOPLE EATING 01:02:22 - HORSE SHOW-RODEO. MEN ON HORSES CARRY FLAGS 01:02:27 - WORKERS RETURNING HOME. COMMUTING 01:02:32 - LS FACTORY. 01:02:34 - MONTAGE OF WORKERS IN FACTORIES. WELDING, BOTTLING, BUILDING AIRPLANES 01:02:45 - JOHN WAYNE NARRATES. 01:03:12 - COUPLE DANCES RHUMBA-RUMBA 01:03:17 - AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURING PLANT. CARS BEING BUILT 01:03:19 - ROADWAY FILLED WITH CARS RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC COMMUTING TRAFFIC JAM 01:03:24 - FOOTBALL GAME 01:03:26 - BOXING MATCH 01:03:28 - RODEO 01:03:32 - WOMEN-FEMALE WRESTLING MATCH 01:03:33 - VETERANS PARADE. PANS SPECTATORS. 1950s CATS EYE GLASSES & CLOTHING. MEMORIAL DAY PARADE 01:03:37 - WOMAN SCANS OVER HOLIDAY-OCCASION CARDS IN SHOP 01:03:41 - BEAUTY CONTEST. WOMEN IN LONG GOWNS 01:03:45 - CROWNING OF WINNER 01:03:47 - WOMAN APPLIES THICK LAYER OF LIPSTICK WITH AID OF TINY MIRROR HEAVILY MADE UP WOMAN 01:03:49 - FAT MAN EATING ON BEACH SPOTS BEAUTY, STARES ONLY SEE BOTTOM HALF OF WOMAN 01:04:08 - CU HOME MADE GRAVESTONE LESTER MOORE FOUR SLUGS FROM A 44 NO LES NO MOORE. HUMOR IN DEATH 01:04:11 - COUNTRY BLUE GRASS BAND. ACCORDION. BANJO 01:04:20 - SQUARE DANCE 01:04:27 - MAN PLAYS CLARINET. ALA BENNY GOODMAN, SWING JAZZ. IN UNIFORM 01:04:34 - SAILOR PLAYS GUITAR & SINGS "HILLBILLY BLUES" 01:04:43 - CADETS PLAY ROCK-N-ROLL STAND UP BASS ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK 01:04:53 - HUGE CHOIR SINGS BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC 01:05:02 - MONTAGE OF IMAGES AS THEY SING. MOUNT RUSHMORE BATTLEFIELD GETTYSBERG?, 01:05:32 - WORKERS ON STRIKE AT PLANT. LOCAL 65. CARRY PICKET SIGNS. 01:05:35 - POLITICAL CONVENTION, EARLY 1960s PLACARDS, BALLOONS, STREAMERS, 01:05:49 - MONTAGE OF MONUMENTS-STATUES AROUND COUNTRY DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS IWO JIMA MINUTEMEN 01:06:11 - LINCOLN MEMORIAL SOLDIERS WALK PAST 01:06:20 - PEOPLE LOOKING INTO GLASS TABLE READING. 01:06:32 - MONTAGE OF WRITINGS PREAMBLE CONSTITUTION WE THE PEOPLE. 01:06:49 - CHURCH GOING CITIZENS SING HYMNS 01:06:52 - MONTAGE EXTERIORS OF VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS CHURCHES, CATHOLIC, PROTESTANT, BAPTIST.. 01:07:17 - PEOPLE AT PUBLIC LIBRARY 01:07:23 - PEOPLE ON LINE TO VOTE. CU WOMAN CLOSING CURTAINS IN VOTING BOOTH. 01:07:28 - SELLING PIGS. AUCTIONEER. CU MAN CALLING OUT BIDS AT RAPID PACE. COUNTRY COMMERCE. 01:07:40 - EDWARD MORROW NARRATES. 01:07:46 - MILITARY MARCH IN RUSSIA. KREMLIN. KHRUSHCHEV WAVES 01:07:56 - MONTAGE OF ANIMATED FIGURES CARTOONS PASSING STATE WORKER, STATE STORE, MAN PLAYS PIANO MUSIC HAS RUSSIAN SYMBOL OVER IT HAMMER & SICKLE DANCER IN SHAPE OF HAMMER & SICKLE 01:08:08 - HUGE LINE OF MILITARY TANKS DRIVE THROUGH MOSCOW FIGHTER PLANES, ECT. WAR TOYS. SOLDIERS MISSILES 01:08:49 - HANSON BALDWIN, REPORTER WHO FOLLOWS "COLD WAR". HOLDS UP POLICY STATEMENTS FROM EACH OF OUR SERVICES. 01:09:03 - WALKS OVER TO MAP OF WORLD. COUNTRIES IN WHITE, CAPITALISTIC, IN BLACK, COMMUNIST PARTS OF WORLD, CIRCA 1960, GREY, UNCOMMITED PARTS OF WORLD. 01:10:01 - MONTAGE OF COUNTRIES DOMINATED OR SEEKING INDEPENDANCE, AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST 01:10:53 - YOUNG MAN TAKES PICTURE OF SERVICEMAN. ASKS MAN TO POSE WITH HIM ON STEPS OF LARGE BUILDING 01:11:26 - YOUNG MOTHER & DAUGHTER POSE FOR AMERICAN 01:11:30 - CU AMERICAN MAN SITTING ON STEPS 01:11:33 - SERVICEMAN & LOCAL SHAKE HANDS. 01:11:37 - CU MOTHER & DAUGHTER SMILING 01:11:38 - LOCAL SHAKES HANDS WITH AMERICAN MAN 01:12:11 - SPINNING EARTH AS SEEN FROM SPACE. WORDS OVER AT 01 12 18 01:12:33 - NARRATOR GOES OVER TO MAP POINTS OUT RUSSIA 01:13:03 - CU NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE. COMMUNIST COUP IN PRAGUE CZECHOSLOVAKIA. 01:13:16 - RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY MEETING. 01:13:22 - DEAD RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC LEADER. LAVRENTI BERIA ? 01:13:25 - RUSSIAN PEOPLE-CITIZENS AT FUNERAL. PEOPLE IN MOURNING. DEATH 01:13:26 - RUSSIANS VOTING. PAPER BALLOTS IN BOX 01:13:33 - RUSSIAN MILITARY FORCES IN STREETS. OCCUPATION 01:13:47 - CHINESE GAZEBO-PRAYING PALCE HIGH ON HILLTOP. 01:13:49 - RUSSIAN OCCUPATION IN CHINA. POLITICAL- MILITARY ACTION IN FOREIGN COUNTRY. MONTAGE OF WAR CANNONS FOOT SOLDIERS 01:14:02 - RED CHINA MILITARY MARCH. MAO TSE-TUNG. CHINESE SOLDIERS GOOSE STEP. 01:14:27 - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN THE STREETS. PILE OF BOOKS BURNING. ON FIRE. BURNING FLAGS. POLICE CHASE PROTESTERS. HUGE MOB 01:15:02 - SPINNING EARTH SEEN FROM SPACE WORDS POLITICAL & ECONOMIC OVER 01:15:11 - FRANK MCGEE AT TYPEWRITER. MAN TYPING ON 1950s MANUAL TYPEWRITER. NARRATOR. ANTI RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA. 01:15:55 - FACTORIES IN RUSSIA. HUGE INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES PLANTS, ASSEMBLY LINES, CAR PLANT. 01:16:10 - PANS NEWLY BUILT STOVES. 01:16:14 - TRAIN PULLS UP TO DOCK. SHIPPING YARD. BIG CRANE MOVES CARGO. BOATS WAIT IN HARBOR. 01:16:25 - KHRUSHCHEV ARRIVES AT OUTDOOR FUNCTION FLIRTING WITH FOREIGN LEADERS HE CAN SWAY 01:16:37 - CASTRO MEETS RUSSIAN LEADERS 01:16:46 - MCGEE READS OFF STATISTICS. GNP. GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT. 01:17:24 - EARTH FROM SPACE WORDS ECONOMIC & IDEOLOGICAL OVER 01:17:33 - MCGEE TALKS ABOUT. IDEOLOGICAL PENETRATION 01:17:42 - UNITED NATIONS-NATO ? MEETING. COOL LOGO ON TABLE STAR LIKE FORM 01:17:49 - HUGE FACTORY. WELDING. GOGGLES. SPARKS 01:17:59 - CRANE LIFTS CARGO FROM FREIGHTER. CU BOX FROM U.S.A. FOR MUTUAL DEFENSE. 01:18:03 - MONTAGE OF CRATES FROM OTHER INDUSTRIAL NATIONS ENGLAND, CANADA. 01:18:09 - INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. GRINDING MACHINE. CARS BEING BUILT 01:18:31 - ANIMATED MAP SHOWING NATO NATIONS THEN SEATO SOUTH EAST ASIA TREATY. ANZOS & RIO TREATIES 01:18:45 - MS, LARGE HOUSE-HOME. MANSION. UPPER CLASS HOME 01:18:50 - AMERICANS HELPING ALLIES SET UP DEFENSE BASE OF THEIR OWN. MILITARY HELP 01:18:58 - LINE OF HUGE SUPPLY SHIPS 01:19:02 - MONTAGE OF JOINT TRAINING PROGRAM. SERVICEMEN FROM ALL PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES. LEARNING TO USE CANNONS, 01:19:18 - AIR FORCE MEN WALK TO PLANES 01:19:20 - ANIMATED MAP WITH ALL TREATIES. SUPERIMPOSED OVER SOLDIERS FROM ALL OVER WORLD 01:19:31 - LS, BUILDING NATO ATLANTIC CONGRESS 01:19:33 - INTERIOR MEETING. 1959. PANS DELEGATES-MEMBERS. 01:19:40 - FARMER PLOWS FIELD CU BLADES CUTTING GRASS 01:19:47 - WORKER TAKES CIGARETTE BREAK. SITTING ON MACHINE 01:19:50 - CHILDBIRTH. NURSE HOLDS UP NEWBORN BETWEEN MOTHERS LEGS. SHAKES IT GENTLY 01:19:56 - OLDER WOMAN ON SOAP BOX GIVING ANIMATED SPEECH, MOS. COULD BE CONSTRUED AS CRAZY WOMAN. FREEDOM OF SPEECH 01:20:00 - HUGE CATHEDRAL, RELIGION. MASS. CATHOLIC 01:20:05 - GROUP OF MEN ON DOCKS MEETING. 01:20:08 - PAYDAY. WORKERS LINE UP AT WINDOW TO COLLECT WAGES. BANK. 01:20:13 - FAMILY AT DINNER TABLE. MIDDLE AMERICA. CHILDREN WELL BEHAVED. MANNERS. 01:20:18 - RURAL FATHER IN OVERALLS HOLDS BOOK READS WITH DAUGHTER. INVOLVED PARENT. TEACHING CHILDREN 01:20:24 - NARRATOR WTIH MORE ANTI COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA 01:21:15 - HUGE ANTI CAPITALIST RALLY-RIOT. COMMUNISTS CARRY ANTI AMERICAN POSTERS RUN WILD IN STREETS ANGRY MOB. 01:21:33 - FREE WORLD PROTESTS. COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS. 01:21:49 - MONTAGE OF COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS USING MASS COMMUNICATION TO SPREAD MESSAGE. RADIO, OUT DOOR MEETINGS 01:21:56 - ANTI AMERICAN POSTER OF SOLDIER DEPICTED AS SAVAGE BRUTE 01:22:05 - HIGH SHOT OF BUSY LONDON STREET. DOUBLE DECKER BUS STOP. 01:22:09 - MONTAGE OF BUSY STREETS WITH MANY COMMUTERS LOTS OF PEOPLE ON CITY STREETS. GOING INTO LONDON TUBE STATION. 01:22:19 - NARRATOR TALKS ABOUT. UNDERSTANDING. FLOW OF INFORMATION. 01:22:31 - LOWELL THOMAS NARRATES. TALKS ABOUT. GREAT ABUNDANCE OF INFO. WE HAVE. BUT PEOPLE SEEM TO BE UNINFORMED. APATHY. 01:23:11 - MONTAGE OF NEWSPAPER HEADLINES. INFORMATION POLITICS OF MASS MEDIA. 01:23:26 - LEGISLATION SESSION 01:23:28 - HIGH SCHOOL. TEENS. EDUCATION. 01:24:05 - VARIETY OF SERVICEMEN & WOMEN IN SOME SORT OF CEREMONY. FLAGS OF MANY NATIONS ARE CARRIED 01:24:10 - CU LIBERTY BELL IN FULL SWING. IMAGES OF AMERICAN MONUMENTS-GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS SUPERIMPOSED OVER BELL. 01:24:34 - HELEN HAYES NARRATES. TALKS ABOUT. CHALLENGE THAT CONTINUES. PEOPLE NEED TO BE DEVOTED DEDICATED 01:26:10 - STATUE OF LIBERTY. NIGHT TIME. TORCH LIT. 01:26:14 - MONTAGE OF AMERICAN HOMES-HOUSES VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. NEW ENGLAND 01:26:17 - SMALL TOWN BRIDGE. 01:26:19 - STATUE OF SOLDIER 01:26:21 - SNOW COVERED GROUND CANNON IN FORE GROUND. GETTYSBURG? 01:26:24 - COAST. OCEAN POUNDS AGAINST ROCKS-CLIFFS. NEW ENGLAND. 01:26:28 - MONTAGE OF MONUMENTS DEDICATED TO SOLDIERS WHO GAVE LIVES FOR AMERICA-FREEDOM. 01:26:36 - HISTORICAL REENACTMENTS. PEOPLE DRESSED IN PERIOD CLOTHES. COLONIAL. CUT DOWN-CLEAR WOODS. MOVE WEST. BUILDING RAILROADS. TRAIN ON TRACKS STILL BEING BUILT 01:26:46 - CU TOOLS. PICK, SHOVEL SAW DIGGING HOLES-DIRT BUILDING 01:26:50 - MONTAGE OF HUGE TREES FALLING. LOGGING 01:26:51 - CU BLACKSMITH WITH HUGE MUSCLES POUNDING FORGING IRON 01:26:54 - CU HANDS PICKING FLOWERS 01:26:55 - BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. MEN HIGH UP ON BEAMS 01:26:56 - MAN USING DRILL DIGS HOLE IN GROUND. 01:26:58 - CU "AMERICAN MAN" 01:26:59 - LOW ANGLE STATUE OF LIBERTY 01:27:02 - CU MAN & YOUNG GIRL LOOKING UP 01:27:05 - VARIOUS ANGLES OF STATUE-LIBERTY. INTERCUTS VARIETY OF AMERICANS FROM ALL OVER WORLD. ETHNIC-CULTURAL MELTING POT. 01:27:41 - POV SAILING AWAY FROM STATUE DUSK 01:27:43 - DARK. SUDDENLY STATUE LIGHTS UP. 01:27:48 - FAMOUS WORDS FROM JFK'S INAUGURAL SPEECH "ASK NOT WHAT..." SUPERIMPOSED OVER STATUE OF LIBERTY. 01:28:16 - SEGMENT ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1961
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: V-A2911