Video Parts (4 across 2 reels)
This clip is Reel 2, Part 1 of a 4-part film. Watch from the beginning
A TRIP PAST THE STATUE OF LIBERTY THROUGH THE U.S.A Reel 2 · Part 1
Description
A German anti-U.S. propaganda film. Reel 1, shows the Statue of Liberty and Pres. Roosevelt speaking on democracy. Troops and mounted police rout striking workers with bayonets and tear gas, remove injured strikers on stretchers, and arrest and haul away rioters. Striking workers smash factory windows and farmers dump milk on roads during a milk strike. Shows close-ups of Major de Rothschild, La Guardia, and other prominent Jews in the U.S.; shacks of unemployed workers; children in slums; gangster John Dillinger; and Mrs. Roosevelt at a fashion show. Reel 2, shows Jewish war veterans parading, cubistic and surrealistic art, Negroes dancing, a Negro baptism in a river, brutal wrestling matches, freak sport scenes, and a suicide jumping from a bldg.
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National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized
Series
Motion Picture Films From G-2 Army Military Intelligence Division