In Our Hands is an anti-communist four-part series that discusses the birth of the American way of life, how we could lose it, and how we must make sure we don’t lose it. In part one, a couple and their baby are magically dropped down into a wilderness with no tools, in order to show how lost Americans would be without the privately owned means (tools) of production. The Lincoln Memorial, our founding fathers, and God, are invoked in this patriotic paean to capitalism. In part two, the films shows how even the simplest things in the American household, like Mom’s frying pan, are made by industries. It explains the freedoms Americans have thanks to capitalism. Scenes of iron industry, pan-manufacturing, farming, and more are shown. In part three, the film introduces a complex dramatization of how Americans could “lose what we have.” Two middle class couples are shown watching a political debate on TV featuring a fat, slimy communist-type candidate and a thin, scrappy, free-market candidate. Each makes the arguments for or against Big Government. The communist-type promises "full employment and full security" "We're already on our way,” he says, “We've partly socialized incomes. We're going ahead and socialize property, too!" "But what price freedom?" cries the good candidate. "You can have full employment and full security -- in a penitentiary! Government can't control everything without controlling me!" Tom, Mary, and their friends are seduced by the prospects of full employment and a “master plan” for the country. They vote for the evil candidate, and the free-market economy gives way to the parent state. A horrific scene ensues where Tom and Mary are informed by a cheeky relocation driver that their house is being given to two other families and they’re being transported to a new state and a new job. They argue in vain, as the evil party member that oversees their relocation says, “You voted for it!” As they are driven away with the few ...
