HIGH STAKES IN THE EAST

Duration: 10min

Year Published: 1942

Creator: Brandon Films, Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: "Made by the cameramen of the Netherlands East Indies Press Service, edited in this country in December 1941, supplied with a manuscript April 1942 in view of the Pearl Harbour and later events." Netherlands information bureau. Presents a clear picture of the vital importance of the Netherlands East Indies (especially Java) to the peace-and-wartime economy of the United Nations. In showing the land, the people, the industries, the film develops an understanding of why Japan seized this rich territory and why it is necessary, in the spirit of the Roosevelt-Churchill "Atlantic Charter" that the wealth of raw materials and rich products be reconquered and made available to all nations. Reveals the relation of Java's oil, quinine, hemp, rubber, tea, coffee, etc. to the everyday day and aims of the United Nations. It ends with a map that indicates that the "High Stakes" will be won for the people of the Netherlands and the world

Complete Record: Dewey number: 919.2 Audience level: sh-c-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-$17.50; rent $1.25. Also color-$60; rent $3 Distributors / rental: Go; Films of the Nations, Inc; University of South Carolina $1.50; Presbyterian bd of foreign missions; Oregon State System of Higher Education 50c; University of Kentucky 50c; Modern Sound Pictures, Inc $1; University of Iowa $1.50; color-$3; Religious Film Association, Inc $1.50. Also color-$3; University of South Carolina $1.50; MonS loan

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946