In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have (1950)

★★★★ · In Our Hands Part 2 what We Have · FDRfollower · 2007-09-12

I found this film to be both quite educational and exciting, while irritating in its propagandistic philosophizing in a doctrine that is hostile to the subject it is portraying in a paradoxical way. On the one hand, we get to see the process of how something we take for granted is manufactured, ready for purchase. In a country like the United States where consumerism reigns and people think that food comes from a store, its great to view all the things that go into a "simple" item like a pan or eggs. It was pleasant to view how people used to view economics when it was geared around real…

★★★ · We have what we have because we're Americans! (snicker) · Spuzz · 2003-08-18

The more boring of the 'In Our Hands' series. This one simply tells us of how we got what we have, aka, our eggs, how we got the pan to fry our eggs, how we got the money to get the pan and so on. What's so interesting about these films is that a LOT of the footage is repeated, sometimes in the same film, making the propoganda factor that much weirder.