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- American Film Industry
- Wartime Hollywood
- World War II
- Japan and Germany isolated their economies and cut off ties to the US (1938)
- Germany invades Poland (1939)
- Good Neighbors
- decline in European film market
- opening of South American market
- That Night in Rio (1941)
- Life of Simon Bolivar (1941)
- They Met in Argentina (1941)
- Interventionists
- Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- The Great Dictator (1940)
- Isolationists
- Joseph Breen advocated apolitical entertainment movies
- Burton Wheeler (Mont.) and Gerald Nye (N.D.)
- America First Committee
- driven partly by anti-semitism
- Hollywood has become a propaganda machine
- MPPDA countered with Wendell Willkie
- isolationism ended with Pearl Harbor bombing
- Wartime Filmmaking
- support for the war and for patriotism
- Bureau of Motion Picture Affairs
- reminded audiences what was at stake
- make clear the fight against “evil”
- celebrate Allies