Despotism

About

Content warning: This film contains stock sequences of a Ku Klux Klan rally including a staged dramatization of a lynching presented in silhouette and also a Nazi rally with Adolf Hitler.

Classic pro-democracy educational title dating to the end of World War II, when the interests of the U.S., expressed by the U.S.-owned Encyclopaedia Britannica, aimed to educate its people about how despotic governmental systems such as Nazi Germany take hold in societies. With a wide array of examples of pre-despotic conditions that exist in the U.S. including housing insecurity, economic insecurity, racism, and voting fraud. Featuring graphics and animated sequences with a moving needle expressing points on a continuum between democracy and despotism.

Can notes: "New York University Film Library / Despotism #2 / No. 326 / 253". The #2 refers to NYU's internal print number.

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Rights statement

Note on film states: "COPYRIGHT MCMXLV BY ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA FILMS INC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"

Credit

Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

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