Man of Action (1955)
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2018
- Animated plea for urban renewal connected with 1950s efforts to "redevelop" American city centers. From the Prelinger Archive.
American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods is a non-profit focused on housing, revitalization, and neighborhood renewal.[1]
ACTION was formed in the early 1950s. Downtown development, made possible at the expense of low-income neighborhoods, was becoming a political issue. In November 1954, the White House recommended creating a non-profit publicity and research organization to promote these policies.[2] ACTION was then founded in a 15 November 1954 announcement by Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Mayflower Hotel. It featured prominent land developers on its board of directors including Andrew Heiskell of Time-Life and Richard King Mellon. The program was funded early with a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.[3]
In 1955, ACTION released a 13-minute film promoting urban renewal viewed by 22 million people that year and 60 million by the end of 1958. The same year, former FHA employee and mortgage banker James Rouse became president after promoting the nationally marketed privatized urban renewal project, The Baltimore Plan.[4]
ACTION changed its acronym to "Council for Better Cities". In 1964, ACTION turned toward creation of Community Development Corporations with a $575,000 grant. In 1968, the Ford Foundation granted $690,000 toward non-profit housing projects.
In 1965 ACTION was merged with Urban America, and again with the Urban collation in 1968. The Urban collation's mission ironically was started as a group to mitigate effects from urban renewal projects. - Wikipedia
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The art and animation is beautiful. Prime mid centuryness.
I love this. Thank you for uploading it.
Wow this was really great. Absolutely love the animation
one of the best short films I've viewed...
profound!!!
This video has no expiration date..
Imagine if tenants who are in situations like this can GO to their landlords and ask them to view this WITHOUT the RISK of them being being EVICTED as some landlords may NOT see the POSITIVE MESSAGE, and focus ONLY NEGATIVE thinking their
TENANT(s) are trying to tell them how to manage THEIR PROPERTY.
smh
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With the advent of the latest infusion of gentrification funding (Federal Opportunity Zones) this is a very timely revival of this old film for a new generation. Charging social studies teachers in urban schools to include this as a part of their lesson plan. It is a great lesson with permission to take control and do, rather than be done to when it comes to neighborhoods.
On point. Further proves that everything is by Design
Unity is the key to success
*there she goes!* isnt that a meme. Because its meme worthy. This is such a great film
This aged well.
Evil won.
Fascinating...
The director for the short was David Hilberman
Creative Thinking
My daily dose of car slander ❤️
Was that the voice of Ray Walston?
What's the word "togetherness"
Google is your friend.
Deep
And to think these people came before us and knew more than us..
The whole mission is to make us forget what we already knew to better control us.
We must stand together to fight the beast
That's where ken independent home solution come too your service
Urbanization is truly a curse. Urbanization causes poverty and crime.
Urbanization has nothing to do with it. People make those decisions
5:16
My favorite martian is the devil. 😂
ALESSANDRO DE SOUZA
Wow the build degree in knowledge knowledge culture.
Soooo...the devil points out all y'alls flaws...what to fix...ECT...
But he the bad guy????
Rusty Williams he didn't point out the flaws. The narrator did. He just told ppl what was happening
U.N.I.T.Y
Lesson: Organize! #unions
I ain't even black but Hispanic so don't panic and this is deep we need to stick together
Hispanic isn't a race.
Can I ask a serious question? Why was this film displayed on the Reelblack channel? Was it shown to black audiences? The only thing I can think of is that it is a warning to audiences that neighborhoods can only become gentrified if the people in those neighborhoods allow it to fall into disrepair.
I imagine the need to use white characters to get the point across, as using minorities would've made those living outside poor neighborhoods assume stereotypes. This is the same issue but nowadays they make it too hard to meet in person with long work hours and lack of spaces to gather large swarths of people to demand change. They've built our towns and cities against us and designed the internet to pit everyone against each other, but ultimately the problem comes down to groups uniting to improve their community together rather then relying on those in power to do so
H.O.A?
The devil makes our chimneys fall!
Beautiful old buildings demolished. Zoning and building codes jacked up the price of construction and restoration, gradually leading to the massive homeless problem we have today. The ideas behind this cartoon have lead to disaster.
Ah yes because houses that can kill dozens of people at a time are far less evil than living on a street and surviving. 🙄
Kenindependenthomesolution
Import third world... become third world.
Import whyyte people. Import racism. Just ask the native Americans.
@@ashlirabid9614 wonderful you have someone to blame, never mind that disabled, mentally ill and poor whites are also curbed, but now what? You've pointed the finger, that's it? Do you just let it continue?
@@bruggeman672 Yawn! 😴
@@ashlirabid9614 exactly. You're just a child looking for someone to blame.
@@ashlirabid9614 lucky you! You can blame every failure you ever achieve, and i sense there will be a great many, on Whitey! Fantastic! Won't change a damned thing but at least you can blame Whitey!
Is that “HIM” from power puff girls..!?
Holy shit