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FILM 2401 Lecture Notes - Peter Griffith, Marshall Plan, American Broadcasting Company

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York University
Department
Film
Course
FILM 2401
Professor
Kispal- Kovacs Kovacs

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Army forces were segregated (black and white forces didn"t work together) Racism in american war (embarrassing to the us after the war fighting against a racist country- Germany (attacking jews) yet have a separation between their own army force =civil rights movement. The americans were represented by different people of different nationalities such as; joe gunn, British doctor, frenchie (french resistant fighter & italian prisoner of warden. By 1943 the italian government had been overthrown - Interesting: how the film tries to represent the entire allied side within a small group. All nationalities coming together to fight a common problem. The us & britain were allies against germany (lawson was able to get certain message across that wasn"t acceptable before/ after the war. Very few people had tvs"-very expensive (only bought them if they were wealthy. Tv industry is shutdown couple months later because the war began (everything on hold)

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