Clarence Woodrow Sorensen F.R.G.S.: editor and explorer

              1941

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CLARENCE WOODROW SORENSEN
F.R.G.S.
Editor and Explorer
Presents
DOCUMENTARY
FILMS
AND
A Reportage of
PROPAGANDA, PROMOTION &
NEWS



Clarence Woodrow Sorensen, F. R. G. S.

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A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD is Clarence Woodrow Sorensen.  Explorer, editor, special correspondent, he has covered the globe.  And he's still young!

Of ADVENTURE he has seen a plenty—fanatical mobs in Iraq, tiger hunts in India, clash of arms in Europe, a sunstroke in Arabia.  More than one frontier was crossed at night. …

Of SERIOUS WORK there was more.  Backed by academic training in two American universities, and one abroad, Sorensen had a job to do, reporting backgrounds, surveying public opinion, leading long expeditions.

Recognition came with his election as a FELLOW OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY of London, and with his exclusive work appearing in such publications as the New York Times and London Illustrated News.

Action and achievement have long been a FAMILY TRADITION.  Clarence Woodrow Sorensen qualifies!

Mr. Sorensen is a young man of real charm and great interest.—Dr. Burnett, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.


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Around the Globe …
HE PACKED his bags for Europe just in time to be in on the first blood PURGE in Germany.  He stayed to report Hindenburg's death, the new dictatorial power, the assassination of the Austrian Chancellor, and the expansion of the Reich.

News was hard to get in several countries, still harder to dispatch.  CENSORS were on the job.  But when information couldn't get across the border one way, there was always another. …

Keys to the Near East are oil and the Arab.  At the opening of the famous OIL PIPE-LINE from Iraq to the Mediterranean, with all its secrets, Mr. Sorensen was commissioned as exclusive photographer.  For newsreels he covered Arab-Jewish clashes, new naval bases.  A world SCOOP was his record of a giant passenger airliner, mysteriously wrecked in the Syrian desert.

When Crown Prince GUSTAF OF SWEDEN was on expedition in Transjordania, Mr. Sorensen was chosen as royal photographer and reporter for the press of the entire world.

Living in the desert AMONG THE ARABS, speaking their language, he discovered the fanatical propaganda for Jehad, The Holy War.

So the work went on, in India, Borneo, the Philippines, China, Japan, and home.

Back in the United States, he became MANAGING EDITOR of the international Globe Magazine, publication later interrupted by war.  The world literally came to his desk, made possible that inside story of made-to-order public opinion.

One more field remained, LATIN AMERICA.  With the approach of the election of 1940, Mexico was in a key position.  It involved the Party of the Mexican Revolution, and Almazan and Camacho.  Sorensen prepared by careful study at the University of Mexico.  He now reports that great REVOLUTION—military, social, and economic.  He was there.

A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD. …

Never have we had so many listeners voice such favorable opinions of a speaker.—W. Brigham, Teachers' Institute, Illinois.




ILLUSTRATED PROGRAMS
PROPAGANDA IN THE NEWS Illustrated
Prepared with the cooperation of the
INSTITUTE FOR PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS
WELL meant or vicious, inspired by governments or by private agencies, PROPAGANDA RULES THE WORLD.

Apparent facts may be twisted to mean opposites, photos properly chosen tell conflicting accounts.  There is a great confusion of selected evidence, name-calling, emotional appeal.

When THEY DON'T GET THE FACTS, how can citizens determine intelligent programs, local or international?

This is not a wholesale condemnation of the press.  NEWSPAPERS CANNOT WORK MIRACLES.  Often there is strict censorship.  News sources may be in error.  But, things being as they are, Mr. Sorensen suggests a definite plan, HOW TO READ YOUR NEWSPAPER.

The program is NOT just some more TALK.  On the screen (or in hand, if projection impossible) are the actual records of BOTH SIDES.  Revolution, economic schemes, race hatred, war glamor and extreme pacifism, the poison in the news … with DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE, it's down to earth.

Here it is.  Take a look at it.  You're the judge.

A REALISTIC, NON-TECHNICAL REPORTAGE

We continue to receive many fine compliments over your appearance.  A very large audience … a brand new viewpoint … extremely helpful.  We would be happy to recommend you to any group in search of an able speaker with a brand new subject.—P. W. Kunning, Association of Commerce, Chicago, Illinois.

It was a magnificent piece of work.  We look forward to another engagement.—Woman's Educational Club, Toledo, Ohio.

Our members are still talking about the wonderful presentation which you gave us.—C. Leighton, Maine C. M. Association, Portland, Maine.


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Pnerenting not hearsay but evidence
Presented from another viewpoint…
MANUFACTURING PUBLIC OPINION…
THIS folder didn't happen.  It was made.  So, often, is public opinion.

The public takes in a great mass of material, books, magazines, newspapers.  They listen to the radio, go to church, hear lectures, see movies.  PUBLIC OPINION IS NO ACCIDENT.

We buy certain brands of merchandise, boycott others.  Nationalities are labelled, wars come and go.  Political stars rise and set.

The great STORY here is that of a deliberate feeding of the public.  This is by no means always true, but it has happened here!

Mr. Sorensen has collected the specific samples.  He has the documents.  Audiences are fascinated by thrilling certainties. …



WHEN HEADLINES WERE MADE A Persanal Repartage
On the screen, in swift succession, appear the headlines as you saw them here, then the realism of Mr. Sorensen's own MOVIES, as HE WAS THERE that day and hour.  Sometimes the headlines give a true picture, sometimes not.

There is Hitler's rise to power, the first elections.  An eruption of Vesuvius with a climb into the crater.  In Arabia, a Revolt in the Desert.  A Near East drama with the Crown Prince of Sweden.  Turmoil in India.  Crashed Airliners in Syria.  A Battle Fleet in Hongkong.  Election and Revolution in Mexico. … with FILMS … Available after September, 1941.



I can say honestly that your lecture was the best I have heard for a long time.—Dean M. R. Kelso, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.

We are still talking about your excellent presentation.  If any other organization wishes to know of your fine program, direct them to me.—Clifford A. Randall, Rotary Club, Milwaukee,


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CLASHING EMPIRES IN ARABIA…
A Documentary Film of the Near East
AT THE CROSSROAD OF EMPIRES are the Arabs.

It's a fantastic story.  There are free radio sets and full-time propaganda stations, Arab-Jewish CLASHES in Palestine.  Great powers openly bid for OIL, naval bases, Moslem loyalty.  It involves both the Suez and the Dardanelles.  And at the center of this clash of empires, is the Arab.

By word and film, Mr. Sorensen presents a complete outline because he KNOWS it.  He learned Arabic, lived in their tents, made Arabia his home.

He saw the story of OIL as he exclusively filmed the pipe-line from Iraq to the sea.  He went to PETRA with Crown Prince GUSTAF OF SWEDEN as official photographer, reported for the press of the world and Movietonews.

His movies of the CAMEL FEAST in Amman are positively rare.  No one else was there, except an estimated 20,000 tribesmen, in from the desert to celebrate the wedding of the king's son.

In all, the film is a great mosaic, of a SCOOP of the mysterious desert crash of a passenger airliner, printing presses turning out bales of violently revolutionary literature, A FORBIDDEN ENTRY into the holy city of Nejaf, surveys for military roads, modern oil derricks, and the monotonous caravan trails. …

While pigeons roost on the tower of Babel, what about the new SWORD OF ISLAM, Communism in the Holy Land, another Revolt in the Desert?

The Arab is the KEY!

Also Available, THE PUZZLE OF PALESTINE

In view of the fact that you were appearing before a very critical audience, I am sure that you may feel highly flattered at their intenseness.  A splendid program.—D. E. Northam, Adventurers Club, Chicago, Illinois.

You could tell from the audience's reaction how well the talk was received.  I hope we may present you again.—Evening College, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.





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MEXICO SETS THE CLOCK AHEAD…
A Film Reportage of Social Revolution
All in Kodachrome
THERE is a REVOLUTION in Mexico.

Mexico is romantic, she is rich in resources but the majority of Mexicans are POOR.  Fortune says, shoeless, bedless, plague-ridden. …

So MEXICO SETS THE CLOCK AHEAD.  One-third of the people are transferred to communal farms, oil lands are expropriated, a feudal civilization is jerked forward.  The most dramatic task afoot in the western hemisphere.  A tremendous social revolution.

TROUBLED MEXICO.  Propagandists shout RED or NAZI or YANKEE!  In newspaper headlines are the phrases MONROE DOCTRINE, OIL INTERESTS, THE RIGHTS OF CAPITAL.

The presidential ELECTION OF 1940, first in six years, makes history.  It involves the Party of the Mexican Revolution, Cardenas, Camacho, and Almazan.  Which way now?

It's a difficult story to tell.  But Mr. Sorensen first studied at the UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO to get their own story.  Then he surveyed the great cooperative enterprises, the silver mines, and the oil country.  Election day, he is ON THE SPOT, recording the great drama of change.

The result is an ALL-COLOR DOCUMENTARY FILM—Not of many pretty churches and gay hotels, but the real stuff of millions fighting for a better life, of democracy sometimes without education, of noble idealism with no mechanics, of oil, silver, poverty, and REVOLUTION.

It's the most exciting story in the Americas. …

It made me very proud and happy as program chairman to present such an outstanding program.—Hyde Park Travel Club, Chicago, Illinois.

Many favorable comments … interesting and stimulating.  It held the attention from start to finish.—Dean W. R. Westhafer, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.




RECENT
Engagements

Association of Commerce Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago Geographical Society Chicago, Illinois
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Town Hall Springfield, Missouri
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University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio
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Rhode Island Country Club Providence, Rhode Island
Town Hall Everett, Washington
Westinghouse Club Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Teacher's Institute Bloomington, Illinois
Concordia Seminary St. Louis, Missouri
Bemis Lecture Course Lincoln, Massachusetts
Rotary Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Madison Woman's Club Madison, Wisconsin
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Hyde Park Travel Club Chicago, Illinois
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