Sponsored Films

Brink of Disaster (1972)
Sponsor: National Education Program, Harding College. Production Co.: Jerry Fairbanks Productions. Director: John Florea. Writer: Leo S. Rosencrans. Camera: Emil Oster. Art Director: Jim Schoppe. Editor: William R. Lieb. Cast: Ed Nelson, Gary Crabbe. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 27 minutes.

Conservative drama bemoaning the national “breakdown of moral, religious, and ethical principles.” In a college library attacked by protesters, current-day student John Smith is visited by his forebear, the John Smith of 1776, who laments that America is threatened with destruction by “young hooligans.” The two John Smiths debate radicalism, drugs, sexuality, freedom of speech, and pornography. As protesters break into the library, the film concludes in a freeze-frame title: “WILL YOU LET THIS BE THE END?”

Note:  A sequel was titled Tragedy or Hope.