I love these kinetic typography videos and this one featuring Sterling Hayden‘s speech in Stanley Kubrick‘s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is particularly impressive.
I have included the transcript below the video.
Mandrake, I suppose it never occurred to you that while we’re chatting here so enjoyably, a decision is being made by the President and the Joint Chiefs in the war room at the Pentagon.
And when they realize there is no possibility of recalling the wing, there will be only one course of action open — total commitment.
Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?
No. I don’t think I do sir, no.
He said war was to important to be left to the Generals.
When he said that, fifty years ago, he might have been right.
But today, war is too important to be left to politicians.
RIPPER: They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion… and the international Communist conspiracy… to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
