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- American Film Industry: Class 6, Wartime Hollywood
- 1 World War II
- 1.1 Japan and Germany isolated their economies and cut off ties to
the US (1938)
- 1.2 Germany invades Poland (1939)
- 2 Good Neighbors
- 2.1 decline in European film market
- 2.2 opening of South American market
- That Night in Rio (1941)
- Life of Simon Bolivar (1941)
- They Met in Argentina (1941)
- 3 Interventionists
- 3.1 Hollywood Anti-Nazi League
- 3.2 Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
- 3.3 The Great Dictator (1940)
- 4 Isolationists
- 4.1 Joseph Breen advocated apolitical entertainment movies
- 4.2 Burton Wheeler (Mont.) and Gerald Nye (N.D.)
- America First Committee
- driven partly by anti-semitism
- Hollywood has become a propaganda machine
- 4.3 MPPDA countered with Wendell Willkie
- 4.4 isolationism ended with Pearl Harbor bombing
- 5 Wartime Filmmaking
- 5.1 support for the war and for patriotism
- 5.2 Bureau of Motion Picture Affairs
- reminded audiences what was at stake
- make clear the fight against “evil”
- celebrate Allies