Films for classroom use (1954)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

But Charles Mallison, Jr. convinces his uncle, a lawyer, of Lucas' innocence. The boy, the lawyer, and a fearless sheriff then bring the real murderer to justice and thwart the lynch mob. This film was prepared jointly by the Audio-Visual Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies and the Citizenship Education Project. YOU, THE PEOPLE (MGM) 2 reels-B&W 21 minutes A dramatization of the operations of a corrupt city political machine, in- cluding methods of coercion, stuffing ballot boxes, and persuading citizens that voting is futile. WORLD AFFAIRS LIST I NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH 1% reels-B&W (Paramount) 16 minutes This film tells the story of the Canadian dollar shortage and the efforts made to restore a balanced export-import program. The depletion of Canada's European markets after the war is shown to be the primary factor in the crisis, and animated charts and graphs are used advantageously to clarify and simplify the problem. LIST U GEOPOLITIK [PLAN FOR 2 reels-B&W DESTRUCTION] (MGM) 20 minutes This propaganda short descibes the influence of Haushofer, German geopoliticist, upon Hitler and his consequent strategy in World War II. WATCHTOWER OVER TOMORROW 1 reel-B&W (MGM) 10 minutes A film which explains the Dumbarton Oaks proposals for international security, and shows the responsibility of the United Nations Council to insure permanent peace. SOCIAL JUSTICE DUE PROCESS OF LAW DENIED Adapted from THE OX-BOW INCIDENT 3 reels-B&W (20th Cent.-Fox) 29 minutes This film is a dramatization of the kind of unlawful trials which were sometimes held in the early days of the West (Nevada 1885). It pictures the dangers of denying due process of law and illustrates convincingly the necessity to recognize the rights of individuals as guaranteed by the Constitu- tion. In the film an unsubstantiated report of the murder of a popular ranchman is brought into a town. A posse, illegally organized by a deputy sheriff, 50