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Challenge of Ideas, The Pt. 3 of 3

Reel Number: 221198-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1961

Country: USA,USSR

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TC Begins: 01:18:45

TC Ends: 01:30:03

Duration: 00:11:18

The Challenge of Ideas (1961) Pt. 3 of 3 Continued... Frank McGee talks, gets up from desk & gives figures of Soviet economics. 01:19:28 Murrow talks about ideological penetration. Factory scenes, talking about US Aid, trade agreements w/ montage of visuals including oriental car assembly. Map showing NATO, SEATO, ANZUS & RIO treaty alliances. 01:20:44 US military training foreign military indoors & outdoors including artillery & fighter jets. 1959 NATO Conference meeting. Agriculture shots, baby born / birth, held by heels. 01:21:47 Woman on soap box ranting. Others speaking on dock, getting paychecks, talking around dinner tables & CUs. Murrow talks about world outside Soviet orbit drawing itself together--which causes Communists to want to destroy us. 01:23:04 Anti-American demonstrations (as illustration of Communist propaganda) Large march, wall graffiti, Soviet broadcast, illustrations & caricatures of US military. Street scenes including brief London. 01:24:19 Lowell Thomas in MCU to camera. “low information level among us...surest way to lose our freedom.” Headlines of US problems. Students out of school. 01:25:38 Murrow asks if Americans have lost touch w/ their past. Montage of government images, monuments, etc. 01:26:17 Helen Hayes talks to camera. “Many of us alive will never see the end of the conflict...” “it will require the sternest kind of dedication....toughness of moral fiber....” 01:27:50 Statue of Liberty & light turned on. New England snowscape & coast scenes; monuments to Revolutionary War. Various stock of building of America & western migration. CU of workers, blacks, whites, tourists at Statue of Liberty. CU of parts of statue. Lighted at night. Cold War Propaganda; Patriotism; Cliches; Pride; Celebrities; Economics; Foreign Aid; Communists; Free World; Anti-Communism;

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