Land of liberty : Part 5 (1939-1958)

Duration: 0:22:38

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor | The Motion Picture Industry of the United States: Presenter

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of a pictorial history of the United States originally prepared for exhibition at the 1939 New York World's Fair and 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. The film is composed of sequences taken from many historical motion pictures and edited into a complete story of the colonization of America, the establishment of the Republic, and its subsequent history.Part 5 - Emphasis throughout this unit is upon the structure of the American way of life, compounded of interrelationships of governmental, social, economic and scientific developments, supported by the rights and responsibilities of free men. It focuses on the free-world leadership of the United States in World War II; the implications of the Atomic Age; the organization of the United Nations; resistance to Communist aggression throughout the "Cold War" and in Korea. Post-war domestic progress is traced in the fields of nuclear, electronic and medical sciences, education, transportation and communications, and labor-management relations.

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