Freedom Comes High
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Freedom Comes High was a 1944 short propaganda film with a sober message.
It is done in the style of a playlet; in the first scene a young woman is shown coming in exhausted from work at a munitions plant. Her elderly babysitter tells her to get some rest, and that there was something for her on the mantle. That something is a letter fro her husband in the service. As she reads the letter, she begins to reminisce about the time he proposed to her, and about the argument they had when he went off to join the Navy.
Then the playlet shifts to action at sea, where her husband is an officer on a ship. A dramatic naval battle scenes ensues in which the fate of the husband is left uncertain. The young woman returns home again, and something new is waiting for her on the mantle -- her husbands last letter; as she reads it, her husband appears in double exposure behind her saying that what he was doing at sea was for her, and they baby, and that these things can't be measured easily, but in dollars and cents and, sometimes, human lives.
As soon as the woman finishes the letter her doorbell rings. Its a Western Union telegram.
