# Freedom and Power

Depicts the development and importance of electric power from Benjamin Franklin's experiment with a kite to the contributions of Thomas Edison. First ten-minute sequence, showing history of American independence territorial expansion and electrical development, is animated.Commemorates General Electric's 75th anniversary (1878-1953).Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 electric locomotive pulling passenger train on Northeast Corridor routeShots of heavy industryRadio announcer, transmission tower, man and woman watching television, LIFE magazines being boundNewspapers coming off pressCars on streetElectric utility dispatchers at workPower plantsAppliances, domestic and industrial uses of electricityGenerators and generating plantsTransmission linesSurprise birthday party for old man, family singing "Happy Birthday to You"Scenes of earlier days before electricityElectricity on the farmTracking shot past typist working on typewriter and clerk working on adding machineKitchen appliancesElectric heater in suburban homeAnimated atomic nucleus superimposed over suburban homeRural areasJefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C.Interiors of homeMCU television set built into fireplace with TV image showingVarious interior shots of appliancesAnimated view of suburban houses turning red -- as neighborhood turns red, anti-communist narration:Narrator: "But now our freedoms are threatened by forces that would crush our liberties and tyrannize the minds of men. Against these forces we have the weapons…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1952
- By: Wolff (Raphael G.) Studios, Inc.
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0789_Freedom_and_Power_22_29_01_09)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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