# In Our Hands, Part 3: How to Lose What We Have

Part 3 of 4 of "In Our Hands". From the How We Live in America Series. Anti-communist, pro-capitalist film. Drama of an authoritarian (probably Communist-type) coup in the U.S., assisted by apathy, an indifference to federal intervention in community affairs, and lack of economic incentive. "We can lose what we have in America by a lack of interest in our government, a lack of training needed to recognize false promises and false leaders, an indifference to federal subsidy and control of community activities, and a lack of incentive for greater progress." 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: It is the eve of an election. Tom, Midge and guests are watching a television debate. One speaker urges the viewers to vote for the Master Plan run by a Master State. The other speaker urges them to continue their present government — one that preserves political and economic freedom. The advocate of the Master Plan insists that we have solved our production problems but that we have not yet solved our problems of distribution. He indicates that the Master Plan would solve our problems of distribution by applying the…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1950
- By: Wilding Picture Productions, Inc., Jack Tilles, James Prindle
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/201382_In_Our_Hands_How_To_Lose_What_We_Have)
- 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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