Public attribution (front or state): State (US Air Force)
Author/publication: (dir.) Frank Capra
Publication date: Nov. 13, 1943
Remarks: “Face to Face with Communism” appeared on American TV screens just as Senator Joseph McCarthy became a household name. The hotel clerk is a clone for Joseph Stalin, and the hammer and sickle on the banner outside the “public library” mark the death of the First Amendment, without which democracy will belong to the Commissars. For an equally over-the-top piece of Red Scare propaganda, consider the 1947 comic book, Is This Tomorrow?, penned by Charles Schultz of Peanuts fame!
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