Freedom And Power

Series: More Power for America Series

Year Published: 1952

Creator: Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Depicts the development and importance of electric power from Benjamin Franklin's experiment with a kite to the contributions of Thomas Edison. First ten-minute sequence, showing history of American independence territorial expansion and electrical development, is animated.Commemorates General Electric's 75th anniversary (1878-1953).Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive pulling passenger train on Northeast Corridor routeShots of heavy industryRadio announcer, transmission tower, man and woman watching television, LIFE magazines being boundNewspapers coming off pressCars on streetElectric utility dispatchers at workPower plantsAppliances, domestic and industrial uses of electricityGenerators and generating plantsTransmission linesSurprise birthday party for old man, family singing "Happy Birthday to You"Scenes of earlier days before electricityElectricity on the farmTracking shot past typist working on typewriter and clerk working on adding machineKitchen appliancesElectric heater in suburban homeAnimated atomic nucleus superimposed over suburban homeRural areasJefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.Interiors of homeMCU television set built into fireplace with TV image showingVarious interior shots of appliancesAnimated view of suburban houses turning red -- as neighborhood turns red, anti-communist narration:Narrator: "But now our freedoms are threatened by forces that would crush our liberties and tyrannize the minds of men. Against these forces we have the weapons of freedom: courage, faith, and the creative spirit. And we have the tool that built our way of life -- productivity. America, with only 6% of the world's population, produces over 40% of the world's goods."Animated products flying out from map of the United StatesGreat animation of productivity and increasing horsepowerGuided missile launching "to preserve our freedoms for the greater world to come"Animated sky brightening over power transmission lines"But we are not a nation of destroyers. We are builders. Builders of new freedoms and more power for a new age. We stand on the edge of that new age even now. And the pioneering spirit flowering in the air of freedom will build and dream of new ways to put electric power to work. Then in time we may come to know that the men of Lexington set off a chain reaction burgeoning down the years to make this world a freer world for all mankind.