Tagged: Newsreels
It’s amazing how much things change. Kids today have a wide choice in media. In the 50′s and 60′s our media was a 16mm projector and we got to watch choice things like this. It was 1950. Being a commie, gay, promiscuous, selfish or cocky was bad and nice girls didn’t. [...]
This is a 1948 union recruitment film explaining the evils of corporations. I think it’s amazing 50 years later that we are still discussing some of the very same issues today.
A Day Called ‘X’ was a dramatized CBS documentary set in Portland, Oregon in which the entire city is evacuated in anticipation of a nuclear air raid, after Soviet bombers had been detected by radar stations to the north; it details the activation of the city’s civil defense protocols and leads up to the moment [...]
Aka “Marihuana, the Devil’s Weed” or “Marihuana, the Weed with Roots in Hell!”. “A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.” Directed by … Dwain Esper, written by Hildegarde Stadie and Rex Elgin.
In the United States, the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551 (Aug. 2, 1937), was one [...]
General Yodell accepts unconditional surrender for Germany. Mussolini and his mistress hang from the rafters of a gas station while partisans try and execute the last of the fascists, .German prisoners of war claim they never met a Nazi.
This newsreel footage contains images of dead Italian fascists. Viewer discretion is advised.
My Japan is an extremely racist, extremely violent example of a World War II propaganda film. It’s pretty disturbing, but that’s what makes it sort of interesting. To see where we were in the 1940s.
The film was produced by the War Finance Division, a division of the United States Office of War Information, [...]
Reefer Madness is a 1936 propaganda film revolving around the tragic events that follow when high school students are lured by pushers to try “marihuana”: a hit and run accident, manslaughter, suicide, rape, and descent into madness all ensue. The film was directed by Louis Gasnier and starred a cast composed of mostly unknown bit [...]
On March 1, 1953, after an all-night dinner in his residence in Krylatskoye some 15 km west of Moscow centre with interior minister Lavrentiy Beria and future premiers Georgy Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin did not emerge from his room, having probably suffered a stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body.
It’s [...]
The Communist-held Democratic Republic of Vietnam was opposed by the US-supported Republic of Vietnam. Disagreements soon emerged over the organizing of elections and reunification, and the U.S. began increasing its contribution of military advisers. U.S. forces were soon embroiled in a guerrilla war with the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF), the [...]
This is an Vietnam era Air Force film about the Marine fire base at Khe Sanh, which was supported by OPERATION NIAGARA in early 1968, which supplied 24,000 tactical sorties and 2,700 B-52 sorties. Airpower dropped over 110,000 tons of bombs on the enemy over a two-month period. This allowed 1 battalion of [...]
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