Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (video file 0:32:32)
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Sound, Black and White
Serie:
Socialism on Film
Inhalt:
The film presents what is claimed to be evidence of US Germ Warfare in China and Korea
Inhalt:
Film opens with images of American bombs, which the narrator says contained disease carrying insects. The Americans claimed it was just a leaflet carrier, but the narrator says it can also carry infected insects. The film shows people holding up a container and parachute that were used to deliver infected insects. The documentary can broadly be split into two parts. The first half records scientific investigations carried out in China. It includes field work in Korea and laboratory work carried out in China. Scientists disinfect bombs, extract insects and then carry out experiments on the diseases they are carrying. The footage includes microscope slides and the dissection of a mouse. This portion of the documentary concludes with a list of the diseases found in insects allegedly dropped by American planes. The film moves on to look at the response of independent journalists, and to a press conference with a captured US Air Officer, who admitted to participation in germ warfare. This is one of the first examples of an American POW being persuaded to this kind of testimony and fuelled fears in the USA about Communist brainwashing techniques during the McCarthy period. The political thriller/satire, 'The Manchurian Candidate', made ten years later, is also predicated on brainwashing of American POWs during the Korean War
Anmerkung:
Reproduction of China, 1952
Sprache:
Englisch
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