The Grand Design: A Lecture on U.S. Foreign Policy (Reel 2) (sound)

Description: Content warning: This film contains graphic still images of violent death and disfigurement of humans, as well as an outdated and offensive term for multiracial people in the spoken narration.

A filmed lecture detailing the US political right's version of The Grand Design foreign policy. Its author and narrator G. Edward Griffin advocates for the international defeat of Communism.

From accompanying pamphlet:
"...a lecture delivered by Mr. G. Edward Griffin and recorded on motion picture film on August 22, 1968."

G. Edward Griffin on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Edward_Griffin accessed on 2024-04-10

Reel 2 of 2; see item 200767 for Reel 2

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Subjects: Politics and government, Communism, Nuclear weapons, Cold War, War, 1960s

Tags: family rooms; console televisions; potted plants; bookshelves; wedding rings; wood paneling; audiences; reaction shots; living room lectures; lecterns; Lenin; Mao Zedong; scare tactics; guerrilla groups; Cuban Revolution; Fidel Castro; infiltration; propaganda; motion pictures; popular media; two-camera shoots; psychological warfare; psychological weapons; nuclear threats; Soviets; Let There Be a World by Felix Greene; Communist bookstores; Progressive Bookshop Los Angeles; story times; anti-intellectualism; mushroom clouds; Hiroshima; terrorists; conspiracy theories; Lest We Forget! government pamphlet; brochures; forced labor camps; On the Morning of March 15 pamphlet; Angola; appeals to women's emotions; sensationalism; violent death; "peace propaganda"; weapons of mass destruction; Grand Design for Victory; United Nations; disarmament; arms races; World War III; WWIII; total war; victory over Communism; escalation; Southeast Asia; "Red China"; "Communist Slavery"; Communist regimes; G. Edward Griffin; Hungary; Soviet Union; land of the free and home of the brave; Americans; "challenge of our time"; obligations of citizenship; applause; rhetoric; argumentation; rightwing; anti-Communism

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Creator: G. Edward Griffin

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Delaware County Committee on Patriotism

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1968-08-22

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Geographical Location: USA

Genre/Form: feature, activist, documentary

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code: plus

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1312