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Cartoon shows communism taking over religion during Cold War.

State Department Foreign Service officer Boris Hansen Klosson narrates propaganda film during the Cold War. Cartoon depicts takeover of churches. A large church connects to houses, smaller churches, and institutions. A wall is built around the big church, keeping followers isolated and increasing the influence of the communist state. A church with a wall built around it. “Obviously the communists could not afford to tolerate any organization capable of independent action” Klosson says. Cartoon depicts communist isolation of individuals.

Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079906
United States anti-communist film warns about isolation of individuals in society.

State Department Foreign Service officer Boris Hansen Klosson narrates anti-communist film during the Cold War. Klosson speaks about the divisiveness and infiltration by communists change the people’s psyche. “The ties that once bound people to each other is systematically severed. In a society pockmarked by unknown informers, suspicion came to replace friendliness” Klosson said. The communist system ensures the individual would feel isolated and helpless without the state. the individual is made to believe that their only choice is carrying the will of the communist state. “Submit or be crushed- This is the ultimate aim of the communist seizure of power” Klosson concludes. Closing slide reads “In our unrelenting fight against the poison of Communism, our greatest weapon is knowledge. The more we know about our enemy, the greater is our strength”.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079907
Prisoners of war join the Italian Service Units engineers in the United States (WWII)

Italian prisoners of war (POWs) volunteer for the Italian Service Units, as part of the Engineers Corps. in the United States during World War II. Italian POWs take an outdoor basic English class at a camp in North Carolina. A United States soldier serves as their teacher. Blackboard is written with “English Ciao”. A prisoner of war writes on the portable blackboard. Italian Service Units part of the U.S. Engineers Corps raise their hands. A prisoner of war volunteer salutes and shake hands with a United States Engineers Corps officer. ISUs are wearing American uniforms with the Italian Service Unit insignia (“Italy”) on brassard worn on the left sleeve and stitched onto the standard garrison cap. An Italian Service Unit volunteer uses a jackhammer to crush a block of stone. Two volunteers sawing a log. Other volunteers learn carpentry. Italian Service Units marching and stand at attention on the field inside a camp.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079912
United States troops test new aerial and land military weapons (WWII)

The United States Army tests new weapons during World War II. United States Army Air Force bombers drop 100-pound bombs in a huge concentrated salvo over a field. Shells explode simultaneously. A medium bomber drops an aerial torpedo. Anti-personnel bombs burst in the air shortly after being dropped from a flying bomber. Fighter planes diving and dropping auxiliary gasoline tanks used as incendiaries. This is a WW2 example of napalm use. Gasoline tanks explode and burst into flames upon hitting the ground. Artillery officers fire phosphorus shells from mortars. Explosion from phosphorus shells. Soldiers testing flamethrowers on a tank. A group of soldiers use flamethrowers simultaneously, covering the screen with thick smoke and flames.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079915
V2 rocket launches and officers meet at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base buildings.

Slate reads “Secret”. A V-2 rocket launches from launch pad. A nighttime V-2 guided missile launching. Aerial view of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. View of the main entrance of the Air Materiel Command building of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Cars are parked near the building. Various buildings of the engineering division inside the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Three men enter the administration building of the Aero Med Lab, an engineering division laboratory. View of the Supply and test building. Officers (USAF) & civilians at meeting in above building. United States Army Air Force officers during a meeting. An officer points out item on chart of air-to-air missile.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079925
Artist’s concept of air-to-air missile in development by the United States Army Air Force

United States Air Force officers during a meeting. An officer points to air-to-air missile on chart. An artist depiction of the supersonic United States Air Force Republic Hughes MX-904 Falcon air-to-air missile. Officers and civilians discuss during a meeting.

Date: 1949
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079926