Need help to find fascism filmstrip from 50's

[hootinholler]

Someone had posted a link to it on DU a while ago and I can't find it with search.

It was done in the 50's and presented a talk about recognizing fascism.

-Hoot

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1. Look at...

www.archive.org

Look in the Prelinger collection. I'm sure it's there. I'll see if I can't do some searching....

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4. See if this isn't what you were thinking of...

http://www.archive.org/details/Despotis1946

[whistle]

9. Wow, that was powerful coming from Encyclopedia Britannica

...that must have really ragged out the John Birches across the country and really applies to the republican/neo-conservative control freaks of the BushCo fascist movement. Thanks.

[slor]

2. Keep us posted of your search!

Please.

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3. The 1950's was all about recognizing communism and the red menace

...and Hollywood Blacklists and backyard bomb shelters as I recall.

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~rsimon/Hum410/Fifties.htm

The earlier film documentary that had to do with the threat of fascism came following Pearl Harbor when FDR commissioned Frank Capra to produce the "Why We Fight Series"

<snip>
Why We Fight
by George Marshall's War Department
Frank Capra - producer
at Fox & Disney studios
Alfred Newman - music

7 films in the Why We Fight series:
Prelude to War (1942)
The Nazis Strike (1942)
Divide and Conquer (1943)
The Battle of Britain (1943)
The Battle of Russia (1943)
The Battle of China (1944)
War Comes to America (1945)


Origin:

Sept. 1940 Selective Service Act, but new draftees "haven't the slightest enthusiasm for this war or this cause. They are not grouchy, they are not mutinous, they just don't give a tinker's dam." (Kansas newspaper editor William Allen White to White House adviser Lowell Mellett)
new Army Morale Branch failed to improve morale due to the "deadly effects of prepared lectures indifferently read to bored troops." (George Marshall)
Harold Ickes, Frank Knox, Henry Stimson wanted to created a national propaganda agency, but FDR opposed until after Pearl Harbor
FDR on Dec. 18, 1941, appointed Lowell Mellett as Coordinator of Government Films to officially mobilize Hollywood for war
Office of War Information created in June 1942, but slow to do anything about soldier education; Mellett's film office became the Bureau of Motion Pictures, but its World at War in 1942, the "first officially sponsored feature length motion picture" of the government, was a failure; OWI review power over studio productions (Robert Riskin worked for overseas OWI branch in 1943 and was told to ban Meet John Doe, the film he wrote for Capra in 1941, as "unsuitable for foreign screens at this time." (Doherty p. 51)
Major Frank Capra assigned to the Morale Branch in Feb. 1942; ordered by Marshall to "make a series of documented, factual-information films - the first in our history - that will explain to our boys in the Army why we are fighting, and the principles for which we are fighting." (Marshall quoted by Capra)
Capra saw Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, a film that "fired no gun, dropped no bombs. But as a psychological weapon aimed at destroying the will to resist, it was just as lethal." (Capra) He used clips from this film and other Nazi films

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<link> http://history.acusd.edu/gen/filmnotes/whywefight.html

[nodehopper]

5. yeah, prelinger archive

I believe it is listed on their front page as one of their top Downloads.

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6. I think the Depotism film is what the poster might be looking for...

..but if there's something else similar, let me know!

[hootinholler]

7. DING DING DING...

We have a winner. It is here in the prelinger archives.

I was using fascism to search not despotism.

Thanks all!

-Hoot

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8. actually..

it came up when I did a search of fascism, so go figure!

I think ALL DUers should know about the Prelinger archives. They are a fantastic resource that gives insight about recent American history.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Eerily prescient.

Show it to your neo-con friends, if you still have any.