Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), a psychiatrist, is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike   more...his wife with a candlestick and kill her. As she comes out of her shock, she recognizes Dr. Cross as the killer. He takes her to his sanitarium and urged by his nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan (Lynn Bari), gives Janet an overdose of insulin. But he can't bring himself to murder her in cold blood and asks Elaine to get the medicine to save her. She refuses, they argue, and he strangles her. He saves Janet's life, but now faces two murder charges.  less

The logos of Paramount Cartoons and Famous Studios, both from a Popeye short "Rocket to Mars". Originally presented in Cinecolor.
ENJOY IT!!!

NOTE: This logo combo includes the title screen   more...of the short.  less

This film is from 1946. A great video. See where we are on the scale of Democracy vs. Despotism. Where do you think we are at the juncture in time? Leave a comment if you like I would really like to   more...here your opinion on this.  less

www.bfeWaW.com World at War Campaign 14 trailer for the battlefield 1942, Forgotten hope tournament. Campaign 14 is a fictional 1946 scenario of the USSR against the Allied nations.

filmed at the moon pie/rat fink car show in Indiana 2007

Artemios Ventouris Roussos (15 de junio 1946, Egipto)
Famoso artista griego conocido por el nombre de Demis Roussos

Artemios Ventouris Roussos (15 de junio 1946, Egipto)
Famoso artista griego conocido por el nombre de Demis Roussos http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Roussos

María Isabel Bárbara Llaudés Santiago, más conocida como Karina, es una cantante y actriz española nacida en Jaén (Andalucía) en diciembre de 1946. (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karina_(cantante_espa%C3%B1ola)

This Video was made in 1946 but fits today.

My dads first car. We're going to restore it!

What would you think if someone would brake into YOUR HOUSE claiming such nonsense as a "right of defense", or a "right to exist", and it gets even better, a "right to return".   more...Not just for himself but for his whole family and all their relatives. They slowly take over your house and you end up in a small smelly room in the basement without a window or a toilet. A room you have to share with your family! -- Remember it's your own house! -- After fully feeling at home, in your home, they start killing your neighbors and destroy the trees in your garden. They live from the food your garden provides, your family is starving.

What would you do?




Soundtrack: Gentleman - Leave us alone  less

Despotism, 1946
This 10-minute film from Encyclopedia Britannica Films features Dr. Harold D. Lasswell of Yale, who was a professor of law and of political science at the school while both our current   more...and our most recent presidents were students there.

The film, produced in the immediate aftermath of World War II, presents a spectrum from democracy to despotism. And it begins with this cautionary note:

Avoid the comfortable idea that the mere form of government can of itself safeguard a nation against despotism. ... When a competent observer looks for signs of despotism in a community, he looks beyond fine words and noble phrases.

That last is shown against a backdrop of patriotic Americans reciting the (original) Pledge of Allegiance, which fades into the silhouette of a lynching. That's the implicit message of this film, It Can Happen Here.

We are introduced to a man "who makes it his business to study these things" -- presumably Dr. Lasswell. The professor offers two "yardsticks" for measuring the existence of despotism or democracy in a given community or nation.

The Respect Scale ranges from shared to restricted, and measures "how many citizens get an even break." The Power Scale ranges from shared to concentrated. "The test of despotic power is that it can disregard the will of the people," the professor says. It's notable that in this 1946 film, both racism and anti-Semitism are offered as examples of despotic tendencies.

But here's where the film really gets interesting. The professor then offers two more scales by which, he says, an observer can determine whether a nation is headed toward democracy or toward despotism. These scales are Economic Distribution and Information.

Here's what the professor has to say about economic distribution, which he measures on a scale from "balanced" to "slanted":

If a community's economic distribution becomes slanted, its middle-income groups grow smaller and despotism stands a better chance to gain a foothold. ...

If this condition exists over the nation as a whole, so that the control of jobs and business opportunities is in a few hands, despotism stands a good chance. ...

Another sign of a poorly balanced economy is a taxation system that presses heaviest on those least able to pay.

In 1946, the unjust or inequitable distribution of wealth was perceived as a dangerous tendency and a threat to democracy. The Cold War hadn't yet begun in earnest.

Over the following decades, Soviet despotism rose as a challenge to democracy in the world. And because Soviet despotism was nominally about the redistribution of wealth, talk about equitable economic distribution as a necessary prerequisite for healthy democracy became suspect. And not just suspect, but condemned as anti-democratic and anti-American.

The professor's final scale, which measures information on a range from "uncontrolled" to "controlled" seems eerily prescient, forecasting the McCarthyism to come. He wasn't really forecasting, of course, he was simply describing the past two decades in Europe.

A community rates low on an information scale when the press, radio and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people, and when citizens have to accept what they are told. In communities of this kind, despotism stands a good chance. ...

If books, newspapers and the radio are efficiently controlled, the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to.  less

http://www.RHF-International.net/1946.htmlProvence Real Estate. This beautiful property neo provencal and approximately 400m ² has a special charm. More..http://www.RHF-International.net/1946.html

ellis island closed 1954, 1929 grace kelly actress born, charles manson born 1934, chicken soup day 2008, neil young musician born 1945, 1840 august rodin born, 1946 first drive up banking, 1980 images   more...of saturn voyager I mission success, 1990 first www published, on this date in history november 12  less

1962 U.N. spoke out against South African Apartheid, Tchaikovsky composer died 1893, Sally Field actress born 1946, 1860 Abe Lincoln American president elected, Catherine the Great died 1796, first Packard   more...automobile 1899 manufactured, saxaphone day 2008. on this date in history november 6,  less

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Artemios Ventouris Roussos (15 de junio 1946, Egipto)
Famoso artista griego conocido por el nombre de Demis Roussos http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Roussos

Artemios Ventouris Roussos (15 de junio 1946, Egipto)
Famoso artista griego conocido por el nombre de Demis Roussos http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Roussos