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This DVD contains two brilliantly made industrial propaganda films produced by General Motors Co. used to promote the continued growth of the automobile industry. Packed full of footage of automobile manufacturing plants and workers in action these films bring the history of auto making back to life. Table Of Contents: (1) From Dawn To Sunset (1937) - General Motors propaganda film promoting industrial manufacturing as the key to America’s success. Includes great footage from some of the 12 plants located in different cities across America including, Tarrytown NY, Flint MI, Oakland CA, Detroit MI, Atlanta GA, Buffalo NY, Janesville WI, Norwood Cincinnati OH, Baltimore MD, & St. Louis MO. Begins with this exert “Day breaks in the East and the mighty Army rises. Not an Army marching to the deep and desolate roar of shells, but a mighty army of workers who go forth accompanied by the whistles from America’s greatest factories - While their giant smoke stacks write across the skies promise of a new prosperity in a land where that prosperity brings a fuller life to every man who labors and who serves. And as each builder marches forth to shape his destiny tens of thousands more go with him, side by side - and so each one is multiplied 22 Minutes (2) Master Hands (1936) - Spectacular film filled with general motors manufacturing plant workers in action.
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Students at Roger Williams are incensed over a new requirement that students enrolled in a mandatory science course watch the Al Gore’s propaganda film An Inconvenient Truth. No additional perspectives on the reasons behind climate change are being provided to students in the course. This is indoctrination, not education.
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This is a 1952 American propaganda film by Coronet International Films. It is amusing how it points out that you are paying the highest taxes in history because of Communism. The film describes the origin of communism with Karl Marx. It is interesting how the commentator ... speaks out against the Tsar and even insinuates that the communists were right to up-rise against him.
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In the years following the October Revolution of 1917 , the Soviet government sponsored the Russia n film industry with the purpose of making propaganda films. The development of Russian cinema in the 1920s by such filmmaker s as Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein saw considerable progress in the use of the motion picture as a propaganda tool, yet it ... served to develop the art of moviemaking. Eisenstein's films, in particular The Battleship Potemkin , are seen as masterworks of the cinema, even as they glorify Eisenstein's Communist ideals.
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Produced by the Citizens for Decent Literature, this is an amusing propaganda film from 1965 entitled Perversion for Profit. It is presented by George Putnam - “Outstanding News Reporter”. It demonstrates certain photographs and points out that they appeal to “the sodomists” and others with “overtones of bestiality”.
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Michalczyk, John J. Andre Malraux's Espoir: The Propaganda/Art Film and the Spanish CivilWar / by John J. Michalczyk. University, Miss.: Romance Monographs, inc.,1977. Series title: Romance monographs; no. 27. Main PQ2625.Ma716 .E786
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