It makes for a fascinating retrospective. Shall we take a walk down memory lane? The scenery, unfortunately, is not very pretty... This retrospective DVD takes you back to a civilian America traumatized by the immediate and after-effects of World War II. You will experience, first hand, what it meant to live in the U.S. of A. when little that we know today really applied...
Would life ever be the same again? This was a question on every American’s mind towards the close of World War II and immediately after. The governing authorities obviously knew more than they could always safely tell the nation, but the time had finally come to lay some of the predominant fears to rest. The diffuse paranoia lasted till the coming of ‘Peristroika’, which finally laid the Cold War to uneasy rest, but in the years between 1942 and 1952 the issues at stake were mainly indigenous. What was going to happen to the American economy? Would American society ever know peace and harmony again?
This innovative retrospective DVD examines, in a series of four well-chosen short documentary films, the minds of John and Jane Q. Public at a time when the economy and hope were in a state of flux.
Close Harmony
‘Jam’ Handy produced this 10.35 minutes’ long informational film in 1942 on behalf of the General Motors Corporation to resolve a major public misgiving - why it was taking so long for factories to retool for war production. The issue is addressed and clarified using the non-threatening backdrop of a barber shop - traditionally the embodiment of the American Free Forum.
Sponsor: General Motors Corporation
Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization
Year: 1942
Length: 00:11:03
Audio: Mono
Color: Black & White
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What Makes A Good Party?
This 10.13 minute long film was made in 1950 for the benefit of teenagers in danger of losing ‘focus’ while planning a party. The message, quite clearly, is that premeditated parameters can avoid loss of control and wastefulness, and ensure that everyone has a good time.
Sponsor: N/A
Producer: Coronet Instructional Films
Year: 1950
Length: 00:10:32
Audio: Mono
Color: Black & White
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Knife-Thrower and Children
Produced in 1950 by Coronet Instructional Films, this 10.38 minute informational gives the viewer a fascinating retrospective glimpse of proverbial plantation life in the South. It covers the lot of African Americans before and after their relative emancipation from slave status after the Civil War.
Sponsor: N/A
Producer: Universal-International Newsreel
Year: 1950
Length: 00:01:03
Audio: Mono
Color: Black & White
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Our Community
Can a community still function normally in the war-disrupted year of 1952? This 10.55 minute film sponsored by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, Inc. says it can, and shows how.
Sponsor: N/A
Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.
Year: 1952
Length: 00:11:30
Audio: Mono
Color: Black & White
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Social Seminar: Changing
The U.S. National Institute of mental Health issued this thought-provoking 27.49 minute documentary directed by Hubert Smith in response to the disruptive socio-cultural confusions brought about by the post-war phenomenon of ‘hippiedom’ and the associated drug culture.
Sponsor: U.S. National Institute of Mental Health
Producer: University of California, Los Angeles, Extension Media Center
Year: 1971
Length: 00:27:49
Audio: Mono
Color: COLOR
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Running Time:
DVD One : 01:02:43
 EDITORIAL REVIEW:
Post-war America was a confusing place to live in. Citizens were expected to conform to the requirements of issues that they had almost no comprehension of. It took the Government quite a while to wake up to the fact that Americans deserved to know what was going on behind the scenes of the economy. By then, however, certain disturbing ‘signs of the times’ were already in evidence. Teenagers were largely an adrift race, seeking values of their own when they found no hard-and-fast ones at home. Few contemporary citizens, for instance, realize the dynamics that spawned ‘hippies’ and their highly individualistic philosophies of life.
Every age in social development has its own peculiarities and trends specific to itself, and observing Americans as they went about their lives in the Cold War era is quite fascinating. While some of the issues raised in these five documentaries are definitely only of historical value now, others - in some form or the other - are still very relevant today. The viewer will find the impressions brought about by these footprints in time completely engrossing and thought-provoking. American Cultural History: Social Harmony DVD is strongly endorsed for its social and historical value.
CUSTOMER'S REVIEWS:
"Having lived in those times, I must agree with many of the implied premises contained in the American Cultural History: Social Harmony DVD. I would like to add, tough, that those were highly exciting times in which to be an American. In any case, I loved this DVD and find it a useful ‘memory lane’ tool."
Customer's Name : Amanda Livingston (Norfolk, Nebrasaka)
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