Tercentenary celebrations at Harvard University, Cambridge. A band plays. People watch fireworks. Image of a dinosaur in fireworks. Fireworks on water. A lighted sign reads 'Veritas 1636-1936'.
The 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin, Germany. A crowd around the gate of the Olympic stadium. Crowded stands. An athlete carrying the Olympic torch. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler stands in front of a microphone and is about to make a speech. Athletes of participating nations parade in the stadium. An official speaks at a podium.
New York ticker-tape parade for American track and field athlete Jesse Owens following his winning four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens motorcade passes along a street and is cheered by a crowd. Ticker-tape falls from New York City buildings. A band plays. Jesse Owens waves to the cheering crowd from a convertible car.
French aircraft on display in a grassy field with several French officers viewing. Close up of nose turret on a French bomber (possibly a Bloch MB 210-211 series). A group of French bi-winged aircraft in flight. Aerial view of Berlin airport, possibly Schönefeld Airport. Lettering on the ground near flight line reads “BERLIN”. German bi-planes taking off together from grassy field. A 1936 Junkers G38 transport plane takes off.
Train carrying New York Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) arrives to a huge crowd of supporters in Springfield, Illinois. Franklin Roosevelt waves at the crowd from train caboose. Train carrying Franklin Roosevelt journeys towards Atlanta, Georgia. Crowds outside the Atlanta, Georgia State Capitol (Georgia State Capitol Building, 206 Washington St SW, Atlanta, GA 30334) showing support for Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt laughs and smiles with supporters as he sits in a convertible car. Franklin Roosevelt gives a speech under a floral arch to his Atlanta, Georgia supporters. With such a warm welcome, Roosevelt notes to those gathered that “insofar as carrying on a campaign in Georgia to get votes, my visit to this state has not been exactly necessary!”
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”. (Film is example of Anti-communist or so called Red menace propaganda)
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