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Challenge of Ideas, The
Source | Archive Films by Getty Images |
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Title: | Challenge of Ideas, The |
File Number: | PA-0531 Digibeta |
Color: | B W |
Type: | Educational Industrial |
Year: | 1961 |
Subjects: | Aerials |
Description: | Challenge of Ideas, The With Helen Hayes, Frank McGee, Edward R. Murrow, Lowell Thomas and John Wayne. ANALYZES BASIC IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE US & THE COMMUNIST STATE. DESCRIBES OBJECTIVES & TECHNIQUES USED BY THE USSR TO INFLUENCE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD. EMPHASIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING THE US STRONG SPIRITUALLY & MORALLY. Ken Smith sez: A cavalcade of stars -- Edward R. Murrow, John Wayne, Frank McGee, Helen Hayes and, of course, Lowell Thomas -- spend the bulk of this film telling us that Americans are "under God," and that the US government follows an international policy of "watchful, non-intrusive friendship" and "hands-off internal affairs" (tell that to Cuba or South Vietnam in 1961). When these celebrities finish trumpeting our manifest destiny, they start warning us about the communists, who want "world conquest" and are a "perversion of us and everything we stand for." The section with John Wayne is the best -- he spouts lines such as "beauty is of national concern to us" while we see stock footage of Miss America, lady wrestlers, clips from Personal Hygiene (!), and a marine corps trio playing Rock Around the Clock. Many good "American" vs. "communist" montages. Zero = first pix 00:00 United Nations General Assembly 00:14 Crates being unloaded from cargo ship 00:15 Foreign folk dance troupe 00:18 Lighting of Olympic flame at Olympic Games 00:21 US Capitol building, Washington, DC 00:25 John F. JFK 00:30 Flags in front of United Nations building 00:44 Edward R. Murrow smoking at desk 00:52 Soldiers carrying duffel bags, embarking on boat 01:14 American servicemen (soldiers), families 01:15 American tourists abroad (various locations) 01:21 Fighter planes on tarmac 01:22 Submarine seen from the air 01:25 Frontal view of battleship 01:30 Soldiers look through binoculars 01:31 Sign: "Russian Zone" (Berlin, Germany) 01:38 Sign: "Army Reserve" outside building 02:02 Hand fills out income tax return 02:30 Diplomats at international conference 02:39 Small town in United States 02:46 Old man raises hand at meeting 02:50 Teacher draws large triangle on blackboard 02:51 Teenage girl raises hand in class 03:23 CU Joseph Stalin (?) 03:25 The Kremlin seen from the Moscow River 03:29 US Capitol building 03:34 Men playing horseshoes 03:36 Couple sits on bench watching bathers at beach 03:38 Young couple holding hands 03:43 Minister giving sermon 03:47 Men eating on street 03:48 Rodeo 03:53 Blue-collar workers walking in a group 03:58 LS smoking factory (smokestacks) 03:59 Welders 04:01 Woman textile mill worker 04:03 Black worker (man) examining glass jars on assembly line 04:07 Men work on airplane engine 04:10 John Wayne gives anti-Communist talk and smokes cigarettes a lot, while sitting in director's chair 04:38 Fifties couple dancing cha-cha in nightclub 04:42 Automobile assembly line 04:45 Traffic on highway 04:49 Football scrimmage 04:50 Boxing 04:53 Bucking bronco at rodeo 04:56 Women wrestlers 05:00 Small town parade 05:05 Woman buys greeting card 05:07 Beauty pageant: crowning the beauty queen 05:12 Woman applies lipstick 05:15 Man on beach eating hotdog under umbrella ogles woman with nice legs 05:27 Jefferson Memorial, Washington, DC 05:34 Quaint grave marker from the Old West 05:38 Country and western band with guitar and accordion 05:46 Square dancing 05:54 Jazz clarinetist in US Army uniform 06:00 Guitarist in talent show 06:10 Three US Marines with guitars and bass singing "Rock Around the Clock" 06:18 Large chorus singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" 06:28 Mount Rushmore (South Dakota) 06:30 VS American scenics 06:57 Striking workers picketing 07:02 Crowd at stadium rises to its feet 07:05 Political convention 07:15 AV of Washington Monument at night 07:20 Iwo Jima memorial, Washington, DC statue of Nathan Hale statue of combat soldier Civil War statue 07:37 Statue of Abraham Lincoln at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC 07:54 Visitors to the National Archives view Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution at the Archives building in Washington, DC 08:14 People sing hymns in church montage of churches 08:43 Children in library 08:49 People waiting to vote 08:52 Hog show and auction stock auctioneers 09:09 Soviet leaders view parade in Red Square, Moscow, USSR. Nikita Khrushchev waves his hat 09:25 Drawings of Russian life hammer and sickle graphics 09:29 Tanks and rockets parade by in Red Square 10:11 Hanson Baldwin gives anti-Communist speech points to map of world with Communist countries in black 11:29 Political rally in Third World country 11:30 Gamal Abdel Nasser (?) (Egypt) gives speech 11:37 Taj Mahal 11:20 Spanish steps in Rome tourist takes pictures 13:37 Turning globe 14:29 Newspaper headline: "Communist Coup in Prague" (Czechoslovakia) 14:41 Communist meeting hall with picture of Josef Stalin 14:51 Eastern European voting 15:02 Communist military parades 15:20 Tanks in China battle scenes marching Chinese soldiers 15:45 Guerrilla war in streets (street warfare) 15:58 Book burnings 16:05 Flag burnings 16:10 Riot police 16:38 Frank McGee gives anti-Communist speech 17:20 Soviet factories, products and shipping 18:00 Nikita Khrushchev waving from automobile 18:05 Fidel Castro shaking hands 19:06 Round table with diplomats (United Nations Security Council or European conference?) 19:40 Foreign automobile workers 19:45 NATO conference 20:00 Americans training foreign workers 21:00 NATO meeting, 1959 21:25 Nurse delivers baby, holds baby up, baby cries 21:20 Suffragette 21:26 Interior of cathedral 21:34 Blue-collar workers receiving paychecks 21:38 American family at dinner 22:40 Anti-American demonstrations and riots Anti-American propaganda 23:40 People entering London Underground (subway) 23:56 Lowell Thomas gives anti-Communist speech 24:40 Montage of sensational newspaper headlines exposing corruption 25:27 American servicemen (soldiers, military) with flags 25:35 Liberty Bell swinging (ringing) 25:40 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 25:59 Helen Hayes gives anti-Communist speech 27:34 Silhouette of Statue of Liberty 27:42 House in snow (General George Washington's headquarters at Morristown, New Jersey?) bridge at Concord, Massachusetts 27:58 Seascape waves breaking on rocks 28:11 Pioneers building fort 28:11 Railroad workers hammer Golden Spike trains meet people cheer 28:19 Montage of axes, shovels, saws, forges, steel beams 28:32 VS Statue of Liberty people look up in deference young Black girl looks up at statue VS people looking up 29:30 John F. JFK's "Ask Not" quotation superimposed over Statue of Liberty 06:01:01 Rotating globe 06:03:05 CU Man's hand filling out 1040 tax form 06:06:18 Girls boxing 06:06:29 Beauty pageant 06:10:33 LS Soviet army 06:16:52 PRC army 06:17:19 Burning books |