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REVOLUTION UNDERWAY
DAV-25 Beta SP
Color
Documentary
1960s
Civil rights & communism: John Birch Soc. Newark riots, Gov. Richard J. Hughes Detroit, Michigan riots 00:01:00 Opens with long intro to: REVOLUTION UNDERWAY (Color, SOF) A John Birch Society produced piece on COMMUNIST influence in the Civil Rights Black Power movement *ANY REQUEST for Stokely Carmichael or H. Rap Brown should see the entire film. Shot through with quotes from people and headlines - pure Cold War propaganda 00:02:00 NEWARK RIOTS - July, 1967 - SOF, fires and shooting 00:03:30 sound byte from Governor Richard Hughes (of New Jersey) Detroit riots - fires, days and nights, snipers 00:04:39 Louis Lomax, writer for the Detroit News cites outside instigators Second journalist states there is an international conspiracy 00:05:30 Montage on 1967 riots nationwide 00:06:34 H. Rap Brown, sync, We stand on the eve of a black revolution 00:07:13 Stokely Carmichael (not sync). Communist pamphlets, outdoor marches amd demonstrations 00:08:00 Maps showing communist influence, marches intercut with communist photos 00:09:00 pamphlet: Communist blueprint for the Future 00:09:40 The Guardian (communist newspaper) CU on headlines 00:11:01 The Worker (communist newspaper) - James Forman Headlines 00:12:05 Stokely Carmichael ftg (mos), fotos of his trip to Cuba? - his speech is quoted with words scrolling on the screen, brief images of him 00:13:33 Che Guevera photo 00:13:50 Gramma headlines (Cuban communist paper) - Che headlines - more S.C. quotes 00:14:40 Brief shots of Carmichael with Vietnamese, and brief SOF as he speaks in Paris 00:15:30 H. Rap Brown ..if America dont come round, America should be burnt down. (SOF) 00:16:10 Malcolm X in casket (B W - MOS) 00:16:30 Elijah Mohammed (head of American Muslim movement) on cover of pamphlet.. *track past BLACK PEOPLE CROWDS reaching for camera good shot (in color) of MUHAMMAD ALI by microphone, speaking at podium and holding up copy of "Message To the Black Man" by Elijah Mohammed. 00:17:00 ANTI-WAR demo in Washington, D.C.: Signs, marchers as Narrator talks about Jerry Rubin, and Anti Vietnam movement 00:18:47 Sit-ins, and Anti-War marches at unidentified Universities, brief shot of Carmichael with Vietnamese or Chinese man. More headlines on Communist influence 00:20:00 LBJ looking grim, Johnson with his cabinet? Or this is the Commisiion on Social Unrest. Recognizable civil rights leader 00:20:50 Christian News headlines on communist influence 00:21:30 Headlines from national papers on Riots 00:22:15 ftg. of a radio from the 60s, Mayor of LAs voice is heard, brief footage of Demonstration 00:23:16 Robert Franklin Williams wanted sign, founder of R.A.M. (Revolutionary Action Movement), The Crusader headline 00:24:22 Fires of riots, looters from Newark (repeat) 00:25:00 H. Rap Brown on black people working in white kitchens, POISON PLOT headlines, revoltuonary plan pamphlet 00:26:59 Esquire magazine, article called THE AMERICAN NEGRO is DEAD 00:27:30 sync from H. Rap Brown 00:29:30 Commuist pamphlets on THE NEGRO QUESTION - long series of shots on the rising threat, More Stokely and H. Rap Fires buring 00:33:36 Great (brief) shots of J. Edgar Hoover, rare footage for this period 00:34:34 Fires burning out of control, White people along the street, Streets of Washington D.C., african americans (blacks) being arrested 00:35:40 H. Rap Brown 00:36:00 B W blacks into jail (someone important?) produced by the National Education Program
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