1947 WARNER BROTHERS PATRIOTIC FILM "POWER BEHIND THE NATION" INDUSTRY & RAILROADS 72042
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Produced in 1947 by Warner Bros., "The Power Behind the Nation" is a patriotic film that stresses the indispensability of good, solid, American workmanship. It was made about the "America that all Americans love" and "takes up the story of the pioneering that made America what it is today." Features great images of the heavy industry of the 40s including the automobile assembly line, chemical plants, fishing industry, textile industry, railroads, steel industry, mines, and much more
Narrated by Art Gilmore and written by Saul Elkins, this 20-minute tribute to Industry (and industry-labor relations) shows the strides made during WWII, when ever-increasing production quotas were the order of the day. All aspects of industrialism and commerce are covered, from the lumber business to the fish-canning concerns of the East and West coasts. Filmed in Technicolor, the movie was made at the special request of Eric Johnston, the conservative president of the Motion Picture Association and proceeds from it benefited the Damon Runyan Memorial Fund.
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This is a ‘pick me up’ of inspiration. I want to be proud to be American and proud of what makes this country what it is. I want America to still be the beacon of hope I grew up believing it was.
I think I saw this one in Public School assembly about 70 years ago......
Visions of an idyllic and halcyon era from America's past. Our modern era seems a corrupted and perverse dystopian nightmare by comparison.
They Idyll was a fantasy, fueled by propaganda like this.
Correction, it doesn't "seem" to be, IT IS!
Seems...
There's a phrase that says, "memories sweeten through the ages like wine". In the late 1940's racism and sexism were rampant. Medical science wasn't nearly as advanced as it is now and people worried sick that they might get diseases like polio. The past is very interesting and there were good things about it. But the past should be a learning tool more than a fantasy.
Now this is what Edward Bernays was talking about! Magnificent and glorious!
When America was America. Not any more.
The post-war economy and patriotism lasted all of one generation. We were a save-and-produce nation. Now we're a borrow-and-consume nation and for some reason we expect China to be the ones to save and produce while we sit on our butts waiting to give them our money. A perversion took place at some juncture, and it's been a slow train wreck ever since.
It was a propaganda-fueled fantasy. "America of the Mind."
@@KutWrite Have you ever heard the expression "lt's better to remain silent and be thought the fool, rather then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt" ? lt sounds like you are ether a socialist/communist or just an idiot. Or a democrat, of course there's not much difference anymore. One thing is obvious, you really hate America, past or present.
“… Not any more.”
I feel so sad for you, Archie Bunker.
7:15 "That stains the sky both night and day". They came close to going off-message for a moment.
Thanks for showing this! It's amusing and informative to see what people talked about back then.
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I was on board, until they started chopping down the ancient redwoods.
I love watching a sanitized version of our history that doesn’t cause me anxiety with a bunch of talk about slavery and Indians.
Sorry to tell you but the U S is littered and stained to the core with corruption and slavery
Now it feels like I've got a front row seat to the s&#/ show
Here's a 75-year-old movie that gives us a glimpse of what America was like when it was a great and free nation, before our civilization was destroyed by the radical left. Showing this to someone who is "woke" would be like showing a watch to a dog.
Yes! The patriotism! Patriotism and stuff!
All words ending in ISMs just made up to divide and conquer tard
Everyone take notes.
Thank you !!! 🗽🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The audio is in the dirt- normalize it, please
Good old American propaganda. I remember being shown this film when in grade school of the 50s. I was lucky to be born and raised in America. It has been a front row seat at a FREAK SHOW.
Amen, brother!
John. You came of age in the 60's and 70's when America's moral fabric began to unravel in earnest. It's only gotten progressively worse and lead to the freak show that we are now watching.
@@stevereilley
“…moral fabric began to unravel…”
We never had a cohesive moral fabric to begin with.
The further back in time, it gets worse not better.
A white supremacist may say otherwise.
Anyone recognize the narrator's voice? He did so many VOs but I can't think of who it is. Les Tremayne, maybe?
No, it was the great "propagandist" Art Gilmore, next time try reading the credits, it's not that difficult.
*ART GILMORE.* He was narrating George O'Hanlon's "Joe McDoakes" shorts at the time, as well as other Warner shorts (and trailers).
@@fromthesidelines Thanks! I knew it was someone well known.
You're welcome!
@@fromthesidelines who cares it's PROPRANGDA
Primarily slaves and later some Chinese helped build the railroad.
The Union Pacific actually used Irish immigrant workers IIRC while the Central Pacific used Chinese. Encounters could be nasty as the Chinese and Irish literally hated each other from what I've read (to the point they'd get in clashes or intentionally act dangerously). The transcontinental railroad wasn't exactly the great unified effort some portray it to be.
5:20 Power of production moved to "🇨🇳" so yeah...
How Power has changed in the last 70+ years!
Coal & belching smokestacks are *NOT* quite so desirable now.
And for Wind Power, they show the spinning propeller of an airplane engine !?!
No mention of nuclear? Less than seven years after this film, the submarine USS Nautilus was launched.
Rather poignant watching this. The post-war world was supposed to be so clean and sleek, but history has proven otherwise.
It was for about a decade
No mention of any carbon taxes back then.
Only those which lined the lung.
Post-war propaganda film, some very made-up stories here
Including the character and motives of a studio executive!
@@KutWrite bingo u about the only awake one in here that gets it
@@timebong8366 That makes at least two of us!
@@KutWrite 🤗🤗
PROPRANGDA
Our for Father's are the knights templar so it's always been about the crusades
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.