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To the Party of Your Choice

Item number (ISN):

33061

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1968

Item number (ISN):

33061

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BELL CANADA

Accession:

1979-0192

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1968

Production company:

Vision Associates Production

Production credit:

reporter, Chet Huntley

Description:

Documentary film which illustrates the importance of campaign contributions and depicts a brief electoral history of the United States. Newscaster Chet Huntley reviews the history of the democratic process from the turn of the century. Shots of campaign signs, ticker tape parades, political conventions, and speechmaking. Huntley discusses the importance of the candidate in the electoral system with clips of former United States Presidents: Lyndon Johnson; Dwight Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Richard Nixon; Franklin Roosevelt; Harry Truman; and various American political figures. Diagrams illustrate the population density of the United States in the 1800s followed by shots of crowded suburbs and people voting at the polls. Sequence in the lobby of the Chase Manhattan Bank where a display is set up to receive campaign contributions. <12mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Produced in association with Film Counselors Incorporated and in cooperation with the National Democratic Committee and the Republican National Committee.~2. Sound track is out of sync.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

25918

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8610-0035

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

178321

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8006-0302

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8610-0035

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, Bell Canada, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Vision Associates Production.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bell Canada~The HISTORICAL NEWSREELS compilation is open for consultation and copyright has expired - see letter of 5 June 1996 in Collection File.

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