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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website Part 2: A John Birch Society film made shortly after the Watts Riots, “Anarchy USA reel 1” (1966) is the first half of an American Right-wing propaganda film that argues the riots of the civil rights movement in the 1960s were evidence of a communist revolution abroad and at home. Using newsreel footage and photographs, the film traces the methods used by communists to take over China, Cuba, and Algeria, and then attempts to demonstrate that the same tactics have been used in the United States. Black boy makes televised speech; Watts Riots/ Watts Rebellion (0:09). Gospel choir sings in church (0:39). Definition of “Anarchy” typed using typewriter (1:33). Illustrations Statue of Liberty, United States Capitol (1:57). Newspaper clippings “Anarchy,” civilian riots around the world: perhaps Bloody May Day Tokyo, perhaps Hungarian Revolution (2:20). Photos 1964 Harlem Riot, Rochester Race Riot (2:45). Photos Los Angeles Rebellion/ Watts Rebellion 1965, armed police, aerial view of smoke billowing from buildings (2:45). Armed California National Guard members on Central Ave, others on residential streets of Los Angeles (3:52). Karl Marx quote (4:45). Lenin quote (5:00). Chinese peasants at work in rice field with ox-drawn plow, pulling junk ship to shore (5:44). Chiang Kai-shek, other Kuomintang leadership (6:20). Scenes of Chinese elites, wealthy expats at perhaps Shanghai Race Club contrasted with more scenes of Chinese peasants working in fields, grueling manual labor (6:33). El Capitolio building Havana, Cuba (7:21). Fulgencio Batista greeting other government officials (7:25). Cuban society 1940s: Nail techs at beauty salon, interior crowded restaurant, outdoor flower market, people walking along Paseo del Prado (7:33). Portrait Fidel Castro (7:59). Scenes of Batista’s government (Batistianos, Latifundista) contrasted with footage of peasant laborers in sugarcane fields (8:13). Algerian desert, classic Moorish architecture, men on horseback perform ceremonial Tbourida/ Fantasia (9:00). Women wearing “Hayek,” French soldiers walk through streets, outdoor markets in Algiers (9:20). Algerian men in mosques wearing caftans, Friday prayer (10:08). Lenin quote (11:15). Stalin quote (11:47). Chinese printing press; Maoist slogan “Land to the Tiller” overlaid scenes of Chinese peasants in fields (11:56). Mao Zedong (12:19). Pro-Communist, Pro-China literature in the United States: John Powell; Mark Gayn (12:35). Slogans “Patria O Muerte,” “Venceremos” overlaid footage Cubans marching in streets (13:08). Images of Fidel Castro in military dress, quote (13:29). Pro-Castro magazine clippings, literature (13:45). Slogan “Muslims unite” overlaid footage Algerian peasants ushering farm animals, camels (14:44). Scenes of everyday life, busy markets, streets of Algiers (15:14). Ahmed Ben Bella, political allies in handcuffs (15:38). Text, gruesome images found in “True Aspects of the Algerian Rebellion” book by French Army (16:10). Magazine, newspaper clippings reporting on Algerian Rebellion (17:52). John F. Kennedy televised statement on Algerian independence, thanks NATO, Morocco, Tunisia for efforts (18:14). Photo JFK, Ben Bella during visit to Washington D.C. (19:07). Ben Bella with Castro (19:37). Magazine article Ben Bella awarded Lenin Peace Prize in Moscow (19:45). Lenin quote (21:14). Quote Communist Party Directive 1943 (21:24). Militarization in China, destruction of houses by guerrilla groups (21:50). Street scenes around Havana (22:32). More scenes from Algiers, images torture and death (22:48). Lenin quote, quote from Communist Constitution 1921 (24:10). Chinese army rounds up Communist students, Cuban law enforcement clash with rioters in streets, bus mows down crowd in Algeria (25:10). Lenin quote (26:56). Chiang Kai-shek nationalist forces battling Mao’s Red Army, Japanese invasion of China - Chiang Kai-shek signs agreement with General George C. Marshall (27:19). Mao’s Red Army gathers guns, refurbishes abandoned Japanese tanks, Mao military parade (27:50). Castro at different military camps, gathering weapons (28:19). Castro beside Richard Nixon (29:07). Castro and Khrushchev hug (29:11). Charles de Gaulle rides through streets of Algiers 1960, Algerians voting (30:00). Ben Bella returns to Algeria (31:19). Lenin quote (32:00). World map highlighting countries under Communism (32:20). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
