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BELL CANADA

1979-0192

Film

1 of 1

1968

Vision Associates Production

reporter, Chet Huntley

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>

English

Libre

V1 8610-0035

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Under copyright.

Copyright owner: Vision Associates Production.

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.