Author Archive: Retro

This important film focuses on the experimental project most responsible for taking millions of public dollars away from textbook producers, and delivering it into the hands of educational film companies. The result? The blossoming of the academic film movement in the U.S., a filmmaking renaissance that changed the way curriculum was discussed and taught in North America. Here we visit the classroom that toppled the textbook companies, at Mercer Elementary School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Our host is Principal Alice Van Deusen, joined by teacher Mimi Weber. Weber illustrates the process of starting and stopping the projector during lessons, and instructs her students on the use of film and film strip projectors.

Marijuana is a 34-minute 1968 anti-drug documentary film by Max Miller and distributed by Avanti Films.

American Cancer Society Animated PSA

Traces the history of marijuana and its derivatives, as it travels to all parts of the world.

film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the American perspective during the Cold War.

After a year of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a open discussion has been put forth. They discuss what will happen in the future.

A film about the process of designing a new car. In this case, the Ford Mustang. Shows off various other concept / prototype cars.

The film is summarized in seven conclusions:

1
There is a conspiracy among some of the richest people in the non-communist nations and that its power is protected by their respective governments. That it is perpetuating its wealth by creating money out of nothing.
2
In the USA it is perpetuated through the Federal Reserve system. That although it appears that the executive branch controls them it is in fact the other way around.
The capitalist conspiracy in the USA surfaces in the Council on Foreign Relations that influence on the public through television, education and press.
3
The capitalist conspiracy opposes communism only on the surface because it needs the illusion of a foe. And because the chaos byproduct of the managed conflict advances its own goal of totalitarian world government. A tactic called “pressure from above and below” laid down in Edward M. House’s novel Philip Dru: [...]

Excellent cast in exciting WWII drama. A demanding iron-handed battleship commander wins the respect of his crew when he guides them out of a tight spot with the enemy.