Under the credits, Krypton""s respected scientist Jor-El (Marlon Brando), fearing that Krypton would be destroyed by a collision with its sun, prepared a space capsule/rocket (with one green crystal) to bear his son Kal-El safely away, just before the planet exploded.Bitter or sweet, most memories become precious as the years move on.This film is a memory - and I am grateful for it.Mark HellingerDocumentary-style montages of historical events of past years (Hitler""s takeover of Eastern Europe, Mussolini""s rise o power, President Hoover and the Depression, President Calvin Coolidge""s reign, and President Wilson""s entrance into the Great War) - surveyed backwards from WWII to WWI - are accompanied by newsreel clips and by the authoritative, news-commentator voice of John Deering:[1940]Today, while the earth shakes beneath he heels of marching troops,[1938]while a great portion of the world trembles before the threats of the acquisitive, power-mad men[1935], we of America have little time to remember[1929]an astounding era in our own recent history.Set in the 1930s during the Great Depression era, the film""s main concerns (and those of the oppressed Tramp) echo those of millions of people at the time - unemployment, poverty, and hunger.The crotchety old Potter believes that the loan policies of the company only produce: "a discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty working class.