Point of Order

Duration: 97 min.

Year Published: 1954

Creator: STEMOUS

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 30Oct63 · MP26747 (Jan-Jun 1975) Copyright holder: Point Films, Inc

Description: Highlights of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings edited from 188 hours of television footage., A political documentary without narration of the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954. For 36 days in 1954, the Army-McCarthy Hearings brought an unusual kind of political theatre into the homes of millions of Americans - an inquisitorial spectacle played for live TV by lawyers like Army counsel, Joseph Welch and leaders of the right like Senator McCarthy. The film presents the highlights of the historic hearings from 188 hours of kinescopes.

Complete Record: , A political documentary without narration of the Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954. For 36 days in 1954, the Army-McCarthy Hearings brought an unusual kind of political theatre into the homes of millions of Americans - an inquisitorial spectacle played for live TV by lawyers like Army counsel, Joseph Welch and leaders of the right like Senator McCarthy. The film presents the highlights of the historic hearings from 188 hours of kinescopes. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.