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Our Shrinking World (1946)

1946 · Ephemeral film · 10 min

Synopsis

How the development of transportation and communication has brought the world closer together.

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Running time
10 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★★ · In a Shrinking World, More Problems · BiffKay · 2025-05-24

This movie outlines the etiology of things like world wars, a country hellbent on going around screwing with the socio/political systems of people who don't even know us. Well, it's all about markets. Once you saturate your market...you expand it! Business 101. But, that gets into all kinds of issues. Funny looking people who think you're funny looking; and, issues among alike-looking people who take their feisty issues to places far from those spats; make you get involved, too! I guess there are dozens of reasons, not the least of which, is this religion thing. I recently wondered why humans…