Juan Monroy — 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
  - Left-leaning Jews
- 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