Our Gang

Overview

Black and White UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Four young white boys, wrestle and fight over a vollyball while wearing rubber face masks depicting President Johnson, President DeGaulle, Chairman Mao-Tse-Tung and Nikita Khruschev. An African American boy watches the struggle, and when the white boys abandon the struggle over a vollyball, he picks it up and attempts to reinflate it. A striking Cold War allegory critiquing global imperialism.

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