Dollar Diplomacy; 5; Colombia and the Alliance
- Series
- Dollar Diplomacy
- Episode Number
- 5
- Episode
- Colombia and the Alliance
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-23vt52m9
- NOLA Code
- DLRD
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This program demonstrates what is being done in Colombia through the Alliance for Progress and the United States economic aid to expand local industry, raise living standards, and exploit resources in the outlying areas of Colombia. As part of the economic aid program, the United States has given airplanes to Colombia's Satena Airlines. The planes, flown by Colombia Air Force pilots, hop from one small village to another to bring our products which are sold in the larger cities, such as Bogota. The program points out also how Americans loans are aiding Colombia's industrial expansion. Aaron Levy, manager of Industria de Aeros in the industrial city of Medellin, tells what American aid has meant to him and his business. Through the plans and hopes for his family, Jose Mora, an electrician in Cuidad Kennedy, the program reports on the Alliance and American aid and how it's at work to remove slums and build urban housing developments. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- United States foreign aid -- one of the most controversial annual commitments on which Congress must act -- is examined in this six part series, DOLLAR DIPLOMACY. American economic aid to underdeveloped nations stems largely from the foreign policy of President Truman and his Point Four speech of 1947. Today, United States foreign aid is based on a two-fold principal. First, there is a humanitarian concern, a moral obligation on the part of wealthier nations to aid the underprivileged countries. The second and probably the more important consideration, is the balance of world stability necessary for civilization to survive. Included among the episodes of this series is a probe of the pros and cons of continued American aid, set against the history and philosophy of the foreign aid program. In separate episodes television cameras go into the jungles of Vietnam to report on projects which are being built in Africa to produce future generations of employable talent for an emerging nation; to report on construction of an American-Indian dam southeast of New Delhi which is opening an entire region for industry; and to explore slum clearance projects in South American where American dollars are helping to raise the standard of living. Dollar Diplomacy consists of 6 half-hour episodes originally recorded on videotape and was produced for National Educational Television by WGBH-TV, Boston, with the assistance of a grant from the World Peace Foundation. Dr. Max Millikan, director of the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the content consultant on the series. Research has been done by Peter Krogh, assistant dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Description
- MIX TRK Columbia And The Alliance
- Broadcast Date
- 1965-05-02
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Director: Barzyk, Fred
Editor: Williams, Dan
Guest: Levy, Aaron
Guest: Mora, Jose
Producer: Fouser, Don
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Production Assistant: Tate, Louise
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 02345A (WGBH Item ID)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Mix element
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 2324583-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Dollar Diplomacy; 5; Colombia and the Alliance,” 1965-05-02, WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 2, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-23vt52m9.
- MLA: “Dollar Diplomacy; 5; Colombia and the Alliance.” 1965-05-02. WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 2, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-23vt52m9>.
- APA: Dollar Diplomacy; 5; Colombia and the Alliance. Boston, MA: WGBH, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-23vt52m9