How to Crack the Establishment Without losing your identity.

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Warner Bicking & Femwick Inc. in association with Creative Productions

Complete Record: An ironic look at how reactionary youth and their leisure/slacker activities of the 1960s led to further development of the plastics industries that might today be seen as destructive to the environment as war. The activities and examples pulled from the plastics industry are called “progress”s and “lifestyle.” Reactionary youth becomes “the Establishment” in middle age. Leisure time activities use objects made of plastic: surf boards, boats, water skis, football and baseball gear, swimming pools, Plastic-reinforced fiberglass auto parts are used for racing cars as well as family cars. Auto-racing and hospital venues shown as places where plastics have taken hold. Crowds in subway stations, close-squeezed housing projects, gridlocked Brooklyn Bridge, street crowds, low-cost modular homes. All these people and their activities depend on plastic and vinyl as well as synthetic fibers like nylon and dacron. Liftoff of Apollo II makes viewer think of war and the violence of the fuel reactions that lead the viewer to the miracle of space flight possible. Much of the plastic materials that led to putting a man on the moon contribute to computers and modules. Narrator asks: Without “the Establishment” could we have put a man on the moon? “Twilight” music theme plays in background of images of space flight. Narrator notes that knocking “the Establishment” is different than cracking it. The latter is the real decision. Parenthetically: The title word on the reel -- ‘infiltrate’ is not correct.