1962 - Cold War, USA: Communist Takeover Staged Part 1 of 6
Anti-Communist propaganda film made for Department of Defense - what would happen if the Communists took over.
Narrator presents in all- American town surrounded by barbed wire barricades & Russian soldiers.
Jack Webb: "it may be assumed that such a town does exist, shrouded in secrecy & protected by utmost security, deep behind the Iron Curtain”. According to Webb, it is used to train Russian students in "espionage as a science" and "propaganda as an art" in order to destroy American freedoms. Supermarket, baseball, CU hotdogs. Russian spies by barbed wire complain about Americans having “too many freedoms”. Espionage class.
Narrator then launches into main story: that of a typical complacent American, Jerry Donovan. At the factory, we see him blowing off a meeting of his Civil Defense committee because his favorite TV show is on. Donovan’s teenage daughter watches her boyfriend drag racing his car on USAF air strip. Boyfriend asks for a postponement / time off to get married; his chief lectures him about duty &responsibility.
1960s Suburbia; Americana; Cold War;
NOTE: 30 min. version released as The Red Nightmare on LN 501-717 & 221536.
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1962 - Cold War, USA: Communist Takeover Staged Part 1 of 6 Anti-Communist propaganda film made for Department of Defense - what would happen if the Communists took over. Narrator presents in all- American town surrounded by barbed wire barricades & Russian soldiers. Jack Webb: "it may be assumed that such a town does exist, shrouded in secrecy & protected by utmost security, deep behind the Iron Curtain”. According to Webb, it is used to train Russian students in "espionage as a science" and "propaganda as an art" in order to destroy American freedoms. Supermarket, baseball, CU hotdogs. Russian spies by barbed wire complain about Americans having “too many freedoms”. Espionage class. Narrator then launches into main story: that of a typical complacent American, Jerry Donovan. At the factory, we see him blowing off a meeting of his Civil Defense committee because his favorite TV show is on. Donovan’s teenage daughter watches her boyfriend drag racing his car on USAF air strip. Boyfriend asks for a postponement / time off to get married; his chief lectures him about duty &responsibility. 1960s Suburbia; Americana; Cold War; NOTE: 30 min. version released as The Red Nightmare on LN 501-717 & 221536.