Mature audience. Depictions of violence that may be upsetting to some.
You Tube: Despotism - 1946. 9:56 duration.
This old documentary is a bit damaged; the sound is of a poor quality at the beginning
but gets better a minute or so in.
This film discusses measures with which a society can be graded on a spectrum,
stretching from democracy to despotism. Nations can be ranked by how much power is
concentrated in the hands of a few, while respect for individual liberties is more or less
restricted. How does your community, state or nation measure up on these scales?
Ref.: Encyclopedia Britannia, which is a large resource data base at archives.org.;
includes 'moving images' such as this short. 'Prelinger' cited for the above at
archives.org.
The McLoughlin Post is having technical difficulties accessing their pages, however.
*Update October, 2011: I have removed an embedded clip and replaced it with a
youtube link because it appears Sony is exercising a copyright to it. This is unfortunate.
The film is less than ten minutes long, in poor condition, and over sixty years old. Why
deny the electorate exposure to items with such obvious educational value?
Disappointing. - DVM
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