The Dan Smoot Report: Touch of Sanity (Reel 1) (1965, sound)

Description: Content warning: This film uses outdated and offensive language to describe people with mental illness, as well as racist and colonialist language to refer to African people.

Reel 1 of a filmed speech by Robert W. Welch Jr., possibly meant for television broadcast.

Can notes: "#21 / Reel #1 / Touch Of Sanity"

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Subjects: 1960s, Politics and government, Cold War, Communism, Vietnam War (1961-1975)

Tags: talking heads; podiums; white man delivering a polarizing anti-communist speech; Robert W. Welch Jr.; anti-communism; racism; colonialism; John Birch Society

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Dan Smoot

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Delaware County Committee on Patriotism

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

Production Date:

Release Date: 1965

Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: sponsored, television broadcast

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1177