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May 3, 2016 · Hollywood went to war in 1941—and it wasn't easy. May 8 is the anniversary of V-E Day, the day that Germany unconditionally surrendered in 1945 to end World War II in Europe. Young American soldiers, sailors, and airmen came of age during the war, and so did Hollywood. The role played by the movie industry will be part of a new exhibition ...
He drew from a 1973 book entitled The Films of World War II and said, "One evidence of the importance attached to Hollywood's role was a pre-Pearl Harbor investigation of the industry by a U.S. Senate subcommittee, chaired by Senator D. Worth Clark, to determine if "warmongers" among movie producers were attempting to drag the nation into another "needless war.""(3)
- America and The War Effort
- Hollywood and Washington
- Entertaining The Troops
- America's Wartime Movie Marketplace
- Foreign Markets
- The Antitrust Campaign
- Labor
Hollywood's wartime role can only be examined and understood in terms of the larger social, economic, and material conditions at home during that era, as well as the military developments overseas. The retooling of the motion picture industry that accompanied the nation's entry into the war was simply one facet of a massive conversion of American i...
On 17 December 1941, ten days after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt appointed Lowell Mellett—an ardent New Dealer and Roosevelt aide who was a former editor of Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News—to serve as coordinator of government films, acting as a liaison between the government and the motion picture industry and advising Hollywood in its support o...
Films, stage shows, and other diversions it provided for the men and women in uniform, both at home and abroad, were also a significant aspect of Hollywood's support of the war effort. This was yet another area where the government, the military, and the movie industry developed an efficient and successful working relationship. The crux of Hollywoo...
While Hollywood and the government cooperated to create the world's largest distribution-exhibition circuit during the war, the domestic motion picture market underwent a massive war-induced transformation of its own. With each successive year during the war, as American theaters set new box-office records, the very nature of movie exhibition chang...
Hollywood's foreign trade during World War II focused primarily on the United Kingdom and Latin America, just as it had in 1940-1941. This orientation did not prove to be a serious liability, however, owing to the tremendous wartime moviegoing boom in England once the tide was turned against the Nazis in 1941-1942. In fact, Hollywood's wartime reve...
As mentioned earlier, Hollywood's response to the 1940 consent decree ideally positioned the Big Five for the ensuing war boom. Selling in blocks of five and holding regular trade shows encouraged the major studios to scale back B-movie production and to concentrate on high-end product, and thus they were well prepared for the war-induced market su...
The motion picture industry, like most major industries in the United States, entered the war era with a firm commitment to increase efficiency and productivity. The unions and guilds made no-strike pledges, and for the most part these were honored from late 1941 until 1945. In Hollywood, which was almost completely unionized by 1941, organized lab...
Nov 18, 2021 · There was widespread sentiment in the United States that we shouldn't have gotten involved in the Great War of 1914-1918 and, as late as June 1941, a Gallup poll recorded that 79% of Americans ...
Oct 28, 2024 · Accessed 27 October 2024. History of film - War Years, Post-WWII Trends: During the U.S. involvement in World War II, the Hollywood film industry cooperated closely with the government to support its war-aims information campaign. Following the declaration of war on Japan, the government created a Bureau of Motion Picture Affairs to coordinate ...
May 11, 2020 · The film made in 1944 was shown to U.S. troops before its 1946 release. Over the last 70 years, Hollywood movies have functioned as the unofficial — but massively influential — propaganda arm ...
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The film industry during World War II was an important source of communication to the people on all sides. At this time the cinema was the most popular form of entertainment to the people. It was used to entertain, lift spirits, motivate and inform the audience. This made film an important means of distributing propaganda.
