Know Your Enemy - The Enemy Will Not Perish Of Himself
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Re National Guard military occupation in Wilmington, Delaware from April 1968 to Feb 1969.
22:10:04 Night, jeeps & military vehicles past & POV in town. Black man arrested. Soldier w/ gun. Two soldiers w/ guns at crossroad. Daytime, Black neighborhood, military truck past. Stills of Black people intercut w/ troops, various shots around town setting up atmosphere of occupation.
22:11:04 Title: The Newsreel
22:11:08 PoV from car past Dupont family mansion. Narration explains occupation set up by State to protect interest of Dupont Chemical (chemistry) Company & Dupont’s control over institutions in all areas of politics, finance, newspapers, TV. Shots of Dupont factories, smoking chimneys, industry. Bags of plastic. Streets named after Dupont, shots of Delaware city. Dupont headquarters. Dupont family mansion. Street scenes. Dupont building, workers go in. Int. Sign board listing offices showing many Dupont related companies. Ext. two high schools built by Dupont, various unid. buildings in & around Wilmington.
22:13:26 Blacks arrested by police near banks, taken into van. Neighborhood street scenes; troops in town. Stills. Meeting of the White Coalition. SOF interview, Research supervisor for Dupont Experimental Station promoted, part of job is to be a member of White Coalition.
22:14:39 Ext Dupont & Int. factories, int. & exterior & inside workshops. Narration talks of Dupont’s seeming to encourage its workers’ involvement in civic affairs but no trade unions allowed, no strike since 1930.
22:15:48 Al Myers (sp?), University Psychology Professor says he is losing job due to his political activities. Voice over says Dupont main funder University of Delaware. Shots of campus. Students interviewed, say they were suspended for anti-ROTC & political activities. High school student explains his expulsion. Girl says she was suspended for distributing communist propaganda. CU: Alexis I. du Pont Special School District Administrative Offices, Greenville, Del. High school meeting continued. School exterior.
22:18:13 Black girl talks re her arrest. Black students arrested (stills, other demonstrators w/ police) demonstrating in State Capitol. Mansion.
22:18:53 Blacks doing menial work (Dupont will not employ blacks). Narration re Dupont’s social programs for Blacks. Blacks SOF. Black ghetto. Black demonstration march. WYEAC (?), Black organization, funded by Dupont until it became powerful & Dupont got police involved. Blacks political meetings. TV & mainstream media reporting of events. Governor Russell Peterson on TV, was Dupont executive.
22:22:43 Still of Harry Haskell, new Mayor, married to a Dupont. Shots Wilmington & Delaware institutions: town hall, Dupont country club, Delaware bank. Russell Peterson says will withdraw forces. Narration comments on power of corporate liberalism.
Segregation; Capitalism; Economics; 1960s; Revolution; Organizing; Poverty; Living Conditions;
NOTE: Street scenes scattered throughout.
NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.
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Know Your Enemy - The Enemy Will Not Perish Of Himself The Newsreel - Radical Documentary Re National Guard military occupation in Wilmington, Delaware from April 1968 to Feb 1969. 22:10:04 Night, jeeps & military vehicles past & POV in town. Black man arrested. Soldier w/ gun. Two soldiers w/ guns at crossroad. Daytime, Black neighborhood, military truck past. Stills of Black people intercut w/ troops, various shots around town setting up atmosphere of occupation. 22:11:04 Title: The Newsreel 22:11:08 PoV from car past Dupont family mansion. Narration explains occupation set up by State to protect interest of Dupont Chemical (chemistry) Company & Dupont’s control over institutions in all areas of politics, finance, newspapers, TV. Shots of Dupont factories, smoking chimneys, industry. Bags of plastic. Streets named after Dupont, shots of Delaware city. Dupont headquarters. Dupont family mansion. Street scenes. Dupont building, workers go in. Int. Sign board listing offices showing many Dupont related companies. Ext. two high schools built by Dupont, various unid. buildings in & around Wilmington. 22:13:26 Blacks arrested by police near banks, taken into van. Neighborhood street scenes; troops in town. Stills. Meeting of the White Coalition. SOF interview, Research supervisor for Dupont Experimental Station promoted, part of job is to be a member of White Coalition. 22:14:39 Ext Dupont & Int. factories, int. & exterior & inside workshops. Narration talks of Dupont’s seeming to encourage its workers’ involvement in civic affairs but no trade unions allowed, no strike since 1930. 22:15:48 Al Myers (sp?), University Psychology Professor says he is losing job due to his political activities. Voice over says Dupont main funder University of Delaware. Shots of campus. Students interviewed, say they were suspended for anti-ROTC & political activities. High school student explains his expulsion. Girl says she was suspended for distributing communist propaganda. CU: Alexis I. du Pont Special School District Administrative Offices, Greenville, Del. High school meeting continued. School exterior. 22:18:13 Black girl talks re her arrest. Black students arrested (stills, other demonstrators w/ police) demonstrating in State Capitol. Mansion. 22:18:53 Blacks doing menial work (Dupont will not employ blacks). Narration re Dupont’s social programs for Blacks. Blacks SOF. Black ghetto. Black demonstration march. WYEAC (?), Black organization, funded by Dupont until it became powerful & Dupont got police involved. Blacks political meetings. TV & mainstream media reporting of events. Governor Russell Peterson on TV, was Dupont executive. 22:22:43 Still of Harry Haskell, new Mayor, married to a Dupont. Shots Wilmington & Delaware institutions: town hall, Dupont country club, Delaware bank. Russell Peterson says will withdraw forces. Narration comments on power of corporate liberalism. Segregation; Capitalism; Economics; 1960s; Revolution; Organizing; Poverty; Living Conditions; NOTE: Street scenes scattered throughout. NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel rate.