"CALL TO FREEDOM"

(1/7/55, rebroadcast on 5/5/57)

Documentary made as part of "Project Twenty" series but run in Producer's Showcase time slot with regular Producers' Showcase sponsors; relates struggle for freedom in Austria from the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to WWI, to Nazi domination, to WWII, to post-war Four Power Occupation, to final freedom, keyed to the reopening of the rebuilt Vienna State Opera House in November, 1955 with the performance of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio"; produced by Henry Salomon, music scored and conducted by Robert Russell Bennett, narrated by Alexander Scourby; opera cast includes Martha Moedl, Anton Dermota, Irmgard Seefried, Paul Schoeffler, Ludwig Weber, Waldemar Kmentt, and Karl Kamann, with Dr. Karl Boem conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.