Truth About Taxes

Date1940

Can DescriptionsEducational film showing brief scenes of industry (foundry farming, building motors). Interviews with taxpayers. War footage of planes and aerial bombing, destruction of cities, victims of war, soldiers. Spotless US marching armed forces, plane building. Diagrams on where tax money goes. More war footage with airplanes, tanks, bombs going off. Tax graphs superimposed with soldiers, industry, offices in Washington, Herbert Hoover, guns, average citizens. Payday and CU's of cash and Uncle Sam grabbing some. Fades of buildings, cities, houses. Domestic life (washing dishes, slicing bread). More graphs superimposed over newlyweds with babies. Crowd scenes, luxury items (hose, cigarettes, theatre). Gas tank (with period autos). Farming scenes, employees leaving work. Overview of marching Nazis, gesturing Hitler at a speech, Nazi weapons. Overhead views of Statue of Liberty, Congress, Lincoln Memorial, ends with CU of Lincoln (Statue) and waving flag. Final Credit 'A Republican National Committee Film'.