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1954 - Colour & B/W, Cold War, USA: U.S. Overseas Information Program Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 220540-04

Color: Black and White and Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1954,1950s

Country: Germany,USA

Location: East Berlin,Tanglewood, Massachusetts,west berlin

TC Begins: 15:37:09

TC Ends: 15:48:10

Duration: 00:11:01

1954 - Colour & B/W, Cold War, USA: U.S. Overseas Information Program Pt. 2 of 2 B/W Man threading 16mm film projector. Montage various nationalities watching films. Excerpts from USIS films: United Nations Report on Prisoners of War. North Korean & Chinese POWs in US prisoner of war camps. 15:37:53 Colour. Locust plague in Iran 1951. American aircraft brings small crop spraying planes to combat plague & unloading & assembling crop dusting planes. 15:38:29 B/W Dr Milton Eisenhower’s goodwill tour of Latin America, MCUs. 15:38:52 B/W Excerpt from Tanglewood: Music School & Music Festival. SOF CU Serge Koussevitzky conducting large choir singing. Audience on grass. (dark). 15:39:58 Colour. Radio Broadcasting - Voice of America - announcers of various nationalities. Graphic showing that 70% of VOA broadcasts are beamed to Communist held countries w/ arrow thru “iron curtain.” 15:41:02 Title: Operation Vagabond. Coast Guard cutter Courier (WAGR-410), ship broadcasts VOA. Exterior shots ship; interiors showing radio room. Radio antenna held up by helium balloon. 15:42:06 Graphic re VOA listeners & possible penalties for listening by communist states. Photograph w/ voice over of Polish escapee Jan Hajdukiewicz - re Polish people listen daily to VOA. 15:43:22 B/W 1953 East German / Berlin riots, demonstration. RIAS, the American radio station in West Berlin. 17Jun53 violent demonstrations break out all over Soviet held Germany - fires burning. 15:44:24 Title: East German Demonstrations. Excerpt from a USIS film w/ demonstrators, Russian tanks & injured carried away - crowds running. Walter Ulbricht - pro Russian parade. 15:45:30 Colour. Press operation w/ reporting by VOA re German demos. Graphics. 15:46:07 Graphic re Private Enterprise Co-operation, Chart showing town affiliation program (sister city) & magazine collection for sending abroad. 15:48:03 The End. Cold War; Government Propaganda; Anti-Communism; Ant-Communist; 1950s; NOTE: Partial or entire card sold at per reel rate.

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