In Our Hands, Part 4: How to Keep What We Have

About

Part 4 of 4 of "In Our Hands". From the How We Live in America Series.

Anti-communist, pro-capitalist film.

Contains stock footage from a number of other Wilding productions and several Encyclopaedia Britannica films. For more information on the business community's offensive against New Deal liberalism and organized labor, see Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994).

Synopsis from study guide in film can:

Against a map of the United States we learn that, for every square mile we have, the rest of the world has 15 square miles; for every worker we have, the rest of the world has 15. Yet we have over one half of the world's productive power.

Even though we have great productive power, we have many problems.

Scenes from the signing of our Constitution serve as a background, as we are reminded that: Our rights come from God. The government was established by the people. We established a limited government.

The three essentials for production are: 1. Natural resources 2. Manpower 3. Tools

Pictures of the Indians at work show that they had these essentials.

We have made greater progress than the Indians because we have improved these three essentials.

A farmer on a modern tractor appears to tell his story. He is the owner of a family farm. He represents manpower. He has improved the land by conservation. But the greatest improvement, the chief reason for his greatest productivity, lies in improved tools. To get these tools he has to save enough:

1. To buy the tools 2. To replace them when they wear out 3. To pay his taxes 4. To take care of his losses resulting from a bad year.

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Rights statement

"Copyright MCML Wilding Picture Productions, Inc."

Credit

Wilding Picture Productions, Inc., Jack Tilles, James Prindle

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

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