Face To Face With Communism Pt. 2 of 2
Continued... Sign on wall: “Communism Is True Democracy”, soldiers wake Conway up & take him out to court. Judge pounding gavel as charges read out against shopkeeper. CU “But I didn’t confess, I didn’t say a word...” Soldiers put hand over his mouth & takes him away; Conway watches held by two guards, taken before judge w/ VO of Conway’s thoughts. Charges read; judge looks at him from in front of flag. Conway: “I don’t recognize this court... Judge: “If it’s necessary to add treason to that charge...” Conway: “You don’t seriously think you’re going to get Americans to go Communist do you?... But you aren’t going to fool anybody who knows anything about you. And remember some of those tricks you pulled over the last thirty years. There’s more than enough of us to take care of you.” Conway refuses to swear allegiance; judge sentences him to death & he’s taken out. Woman brought in.
03:01:50 Conway in jail wondering if what he said made sentence, considers death sentence. Shakes door & it opens, slides thru & finds building empty; out front door & down sidewalk; runs down street, past building to empty square in front of Public Library. VO as he looks thru branches: “Everything closed tight; a ghost town...Am I the only one left alive?...” Reads names on plaque Fought For Freedom. Back into hotel room seen from outside window & lights up for morning.
03:06:37 Busy lobby & Conway down stairs in uniform, looks around “Maybe I dreamed the whole thing after all.” Checks out. Outside traffic, policeman & people walking. Buys newspaper from paperboy; sees shoemaker who had been Judge in court. Conway goes in: “Aren’t you that man that...” and cobbler agrees saying it went better than expected, will be in all the papers all over the country & Life Magazine next week explains “a bunch of us” thought it the best way to show what would happen if Communists took over. Says to Conway: “If all the people understood things the way you did a staged revolution wouldn’t be necessary.” Handshake.
03:10:33 Passenger steam train around bend towards camera & runby. Conway looking out train at countryside.
03:11:05 Train away from camera on curve. The End.
1951 Cold War Propaganda; Oddities; Anti-Communism; Military Patriotism; 1950s; Myths; Stereotypes;
NOTE: out of frame 15:03:44 - 15:04:05 in NARA intermediate.
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Face To Face With Communism Pt. 2 of 2 Continued... Sign on wall: “Communism Is True Democracy”, soldiers wake Conway up & take him out to court. Judge pounding gavel as charges read out against shopkeeper. CU “But I didn’t confess, I didn’t say a word...” Soldiers put hand over his mouth & takes him away; Conway watches held by two guards, taken before judge w/ VO of Conway’s thoughts. Charges read; judge looks at him from in front of flag. Conway: “I don’t recognize this court... Judge: “If it’s necessary to add treason to that charge...” Conway: “You don’t seriously think you’re going to get Americans to go Communist do you?... But you aren’t going to fool anybody who knows anything about you. And remember some of those tricks you pulled over the last thirty years. There’s more than enough of us to take care of you.” Conway refuses to swear allegiance; judge sentences him to death & he’s taken out. Woman brought in. 03:01:50 Conway in jail wondering if what he said made sentence, considers death sentence. Shakes door & it opens, slides thru & finds building empty; out front door & down sidewalk; runs down street, past building to empty square in front of Public Library. VO as he looks thru branches: “Everything closed tight; a ghost town...Am I the only one left alive?...” Reads names on plaque Fought For Freedom. Back into hotel room seen from outside window & lights up for morning. 03:06:37 Busy lobby & Conway down stairs in uniform, looks around “Maybe I dreamed the whole thing after all.” Checks out. Outside traffic, policeman & people walking. Buys newspaper from paperboy; sees shoemaker who had been Judge in court. Conway goes in: “Aren’t you that man that...” and cobbler agrees saying it went better than expected, will be in all the papers all over the country & Life Magazine next week explains “a bunch of us” thought it the best way to show what would happen if Communists took over. Says to Conway: “If all the people understood things the way you did a staged revolution wouldn’t be necessary.” Handshake. 03:10:33 Passenger steam train around bend towards camera & runby. Conway looking out train at countryside. 03:11:05 Train away from camera on curve. The End. 1951 Cold War Propaganda; Oddities; Anti-Communism; Military Patriotism; 1950s; Myths; Stereotypes; NOTE: out of frame 15:03:44 - 15:04:05 in NARA intermediate.