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This is an interesting archival find. I looked in the film archive[1] that stores videos of this Encyclopedia Britannica film and found that this film[2] was ap

This is an interesting archival find. I looked in the film archive[1] that stores videos of this Encyclopedia Britannica film and found that this film[2] was apparently produced in 1946. One of the comments at the direct link to the film in the archive[2] is shocking in its ignorance and bigotry. On the whole, viewing this film is a good discussion-starter for thinking about current issues. I have lived in another country (Taiwan) when it was a dictatorship[3] so I appreciate genuine democracy. In the community I live in now in the United States, there is a high degree of general respect. And I have substantial practical power to resolve social wrongs and improve the well being of my family and myself. I'm glad to report that Taiwan, the former dictatorship I lived in, has since become a genuine democracy, and also rates well as to respect and power to all the people. [1] http://archive.org/details/prelinger http://archive.org/details/prelinger [2] http://archive.org/details/Despotis1946 http://archive.org/details/Despotis1946 [3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720

astrodust 13y ago
There was no shortage of ignorance, bigotry, or outright racism in 1940s America. The WWII era propaganda films are so bad most can't even be shown on television any more, even what was supposed to be harmless children's fare, like Warner Brothers cartoons.
- bostonpete 13y ago
  > There was no shortage of ignorance, bigotry, > or outright racism in 1940s America. To be fair, that was probably true worldwide in that time frame.
  - astrodust 13y ago
    This is surely true, but most countries weren't making movies like America was. It's just that America's racism is preserved in these various time-capsules. There's shades of this that persist to this day, like Black Peter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet), rituals from a time when that sort of thing was considered normal.

astrodust 13y ago

There was no shortage of ignorance, bigotry, or outright racism in 1940s America. The WWII era propaganda films are so bad most can't even be shown on television any more, even what was supposed to be harmless children's fare, like Warner Brothers cartoons.

bostonpete 13y ago
> There was no shortage of ignorance, bigotry, > or outright racism in 1940s America. To be fair, that was probably true worldwide in that time frame.
- astrodust 13y ago
  This is surely true, but most countries weren't making movies like America was. It's just that America's racism is preserved in these various time-capsules. There's shades of this that persist to this day, like Black Peter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet), rituals from a time when that sort of thing was considered normal.