Communist Blueprint for Conquest (1955, silent)

Description: Anti-communist film, partly animated, with memorable sequences including a typewriter typing hammer and sickles, a piano player playing a score of hammer and sickles, and an animated fist stomping out opposition.

May be a partial segment of a longer film.

From the Index of Army Motion Pictures, Film Strips, Slides, and Phono-Recordings (1959):

Armed Forces Information Film AFIF 76

"Mr. Boris H. Klosson Department of State, explains the methods and techniques used by the Communist Party to seize power in a country (33 min--1956)."

Can states: ""COMMUNIST BLUEPRINT FOR CONQUEST" B/W B-WIND FGM"; "NEVER GOT SOUND ON THIS"; "ORIG B/W PIX "COMMUNIST BLUEPRINT FOR CONQUEST" B-WIND FGM"

Composite print also held. See item 201943. Some scenes missing in the fine grain master.

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Subjects: 1950s, Communism, Cold War

Tags: animations; treason; blackmail; anti-communist; propaganda; skewed explanations; hammer and sickles; ideology

Film Sponsor: U.S. Army

Creator: Armed Forces Information Service

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: The Archives Project

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1955

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: government, military, animation

Language: eng

Rights: Public domain

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: finegrain master, positive

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 276