Controlling Interest: The World of the Multinational Corporation

Duration: 1600

Year Published: 1978

Creator: California Newsreel

Complete Record: Subject: shows corporate expansion, productive resources, economic decision-making throughout the world under the control of a small number of giant multinational companies; examines corporation’s search for cheap labor, causing ‘running’ industries in developed areas and exploitation of new industrial workforce in the Third World; central are revealing interviews with major corporation executives. Shots: chairman of Castle & Cooke, owners of Dole Standard Fruit have meeting, man in suit wearing glasses speaks, people walk on street in New York?, steel workers, Asian people walk on street, car manufacturing; banana plantation and sorting, sewing factory - Asian women work( = sweatshop), Honeywell building, Coca-Cola billboard, Firestone, Goodyear, RCA in Taiwan, General Tire; Ford, animation of factories multiplying, producing pollution, view from airplane of industry, mining; oil wells, interview with Michael Tanzer, author, Former Economist for Exxon, speaks from couch with globe in front of him, Caltex, CU of “Wall St” (Wall Street sign), Bank of America; The Chase Manhattan Bank, more animation of people moving in and out of 3M and B of A wearing suits, McKesson VP speaks, Crown Zellerbach International VP speaks, Asian women in pink scarves look through microscopes as men in ties look over their work, LS assembly work in Asian country people wear white hats, big coke bottle in rice patty (surreal), B of A executive speaks, Standard Oil, Buildings viewed from above, street scenes from 60s (?) - cars, people; neon signs - Pepsi, men in military clothing speak, marching soldiers from rear, Ford building, Director of Mineral Planning Utah International speaks, newspaper headlines about business in Brazil, gazing up at tall buildings; looking down, people in poor countries living in shacks, skinny children - Africa (?), assembly work - computers, many companies named, Volkswagen Plant, man rides donkey stacked with plants amid large Coca-Cola sign (strange), 3rd world people live amongst pollution from industry, young girl interviewed with microphone placed at her, man asleep on bench; black man in industrial plant, shirtless man from rear, cops in blue helmets, in church with nuns, priest and others, strip mining, digging dirt, assembling mixers / beaters, solders salute in 3rd World, white people interviewed, leaflets handed out at factory, Ingersoll-Rand, welder; union workers, United Electrical Workers speak, “Greenfield Needs Jobs”, Hewlett Packard VP, salary listed, Ampex Taiwan Limited, Texas Instruments Taiwan Limited, General Instrument; Sylvania, General Electric, shows plants closed and lists number of jobs lost to Taiwan, Zenith, union meeting, man standing speaks at microphone, Hispanic (Mexican?) people speak, big tractor, steel being poured, workers with head lamps, Central Federation of Workers - Hernan Valasquez, children at table are served pears on plate, they eat them, Latino woman holding child speaks, children playing, swinging, Edward Korry, U.S. Ambassador to Chile shows hostility to Allende, black car, Kissinger gets out with many people surrounding, inside at meeting, signs document, Amador Aguila speaks, Phillip Agee, former CIA Agent speaks, newspaper headlines about communists, good still shot of capitol building in D.C., still shots of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Dean Rusk, Henry Kissinger, Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates, Charles Wilson, Robert McNamara, Secretary of State, Zbigniew Brzezinski speaks at podium, politicians, George Ball, shirtless Latin men dig; build home, tank, Building burns, Santiago, Chile, September 11, 1973, dead body, Raul Sanchez - Copper Foundry Union, exile, men behind bars, soldiers confiscate documents, burn them, General Gustavo Leigh - Military Junta, Orville Freeman - President Business International, former Secretary of Agriculture, good shots of men & women of period in America (union workers), casting ballots, speaking to interviewer.