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Don’t Be a Sucker Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 220329-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: Germany,USA

Location: Studio

TC Begins: 11:19:42

TC Ends: 11:29:17

Duration: 00:09:35

Don’t Be a Sucker Pt. 1 of 2 Paramount Pictures for US Army Signal Corps 11:19:52 Innocent young man gambles w/ crooks on train. Man w/ girl in bar kisses him, walk out together & in dark street knocked out & robbed by girl’s crime partner. Shell game on sidewalk, superimposed over wide-eyed sucker’s face. 11:20:53 Black porter carries beers in train compartment, young man looking out window to fields & farms. Factories, cityscape, crowds, combing grain, factory chimneys, coal miners, department store, pedestrians, Black church, Black child plays sandlot baseball with Whites, cattle, churches, fisherman mend nets. Man gets up on train; walking on sidewalk. 11:22:19 Agitator on Racial Hatred on soapbox speaking to street crowd against immigrants & Blacks; one Black among crowd. Many walk away disgusted. Dialogue between Hungarian refugee from Germany & man about why it didn’t make sense, people not born w/ prejudice. People do it to get something for themselves. 11:25:15 Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons (actor speaking English). German at home w/ wife & kids in uniform. 11:27:23 Nazi rally, Nuremberg. Hitler (actor), meeting in restaurant raided by Nazis, posters torn, Jewish man beaten out of shop, Catholic priest arrested. Superimposed images Hitler, rallys, Nazi soldiers marching. Book burning, exodus. Film Noir; WWII Anti-Semitism; Superiority; Aryan Race; Fascism; Propaganda; Military Training Film; WW2;

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