American influence in my country

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American influence in my country is a short film from 1957 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world in the US. The World Youth Forum features the high sc...

American influence in my country
Produced byNational Educational Television
Production
company
National Educational Television
Distributed byNational Educational Television
Release date
1957
Running time
0:29:18
LanguageEnglish
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More Details

internal id
71191
Summary
This series, aired from 1954 through 1958, is built around the annual New York Herald Tribune World Youth Forum, which hosts approximately thirty foreign high school students from around the world in the US. The World Youth Forum features the high school students discussing problems of concern to America and the world. Discussions are presided over by Mrs. Helen Hiet Waller, World Youth Forum Director, with a maximum of encouragement to free expression. In this program from 1957, students from the United Kingdom, Union of South Africa, India, and Lebanon discuss the influence of American comics, films, and be-bop;the contribution of American education throughout the Arab world;the relative merits of British and American school systems;the relative impact of Britain vs U.S. influence in the world;and whether Britain or the U.S. has the truer democracy.
Physical Format
1 Film (0:29:18)
16mm
IUL Genres
Educational
Talk
Youth
IUL Subject
American influences
International relations
Cross-cultural studies.
Full Original Title
American influence in my country