The Saga of Western Man, 1964 (Part 1).

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1964

Complete Record: SAGA SERIES. This series is meant to raise issues of progress and its results: waste, replacements of workers, drying of of small towns, pollution, etc. Visual images and narration on changing a way of life very rapidly -- from rural to urban. Covers institutional care versus families caring for their own. Sweeping nature views to show bounteous and beautiful America. A-bomb test to show power. Unison flying of jets. Moon blast off and space walk. Building complexity, and food growing. Gambling in Vegas. Switches to those that aren’t participating in the Nation’s wealth: Poor in South; coal miners; job lines. Contrast to those that spend billions on leisure activities and travel. Rich and poor together. Issues of crowding of freeways and air. Staggering statistics on travel and speed. Car wrecking yards views and multiple angles are depicted. Previous cataloguer wrote: 1964. the United States during social economic problems in an age of rapid change. Illustrates the relative amounts of money spent on education and gambling, the increase in our ability both to destroy and to save lives, the persistence of poverty in the midst of prosperity, the ever-increasing importance of educational opportunity, the effects of automation, the social and economic roles of the teen-ager and the elderly, and the use of leisure time.