Make Mine Freedom

[Hotel California]

http://www.archive.org/details/MakeMine1948

A very interesting film from 1948 which shows the dangers of communism and the benefits of capitalism!

I was really impressed! It has that post war propaganda feel that just screams retro at me!

Its part of an archive called the Prelinger Archive

Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 4,000 titles on videotape and a smaller collection of film materials acquired subsequent to the Library of Congress transaction. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. Getty Images represents the collection for stock footage sale, and almost 2,000 key titles are available here. As a whole, the collection currently contains over 10% of the total production of ephemeral films between 1927 and 1987, and it may be the most complete and varied collection in existence of films from these poorly preserved genres.

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Survival under Atomic Attack

 

[Tagaziel]

A fun little cartoon, though not really true. The figures of schooling etc. aren't adjusted for the Second World War.

 

[Hotel California]

Yup - I thought that myself! But be honest - what did you expect?

I realised that its all propaganda and so you've got to be ever so sceptical about what they tell you!

 

[Ah-Teen]

A fun little cartoon, though not really true. The figures of schooling etc. aren't adjusted for the Second World War.

Sush, just because we weren't bombed to rubble doesn't make it any less true.