SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frances Perkins, Motion Picture Production Code, Americain
20 Apr 2016
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Class #6 hollywood goes to war and american film during wwii. World"s largest empires fought for control and territory complicated and one in which us was not initially involved. By 1937, war had broken out in asia, 1939 in europe, but us didn"t enter until. 1941 until pearl harbour was attacked by japanese fleet. Knew that american public did not want to get called into another global conflict, as last time they felt lied to by propaganda. Newsreel: regular newsreel program called the march of time: labour and. Defense produced in december 1941 (monthly newsreel produced by time. Workers enjoy job protection and higher pay scale: appealed to people to be prepared to do their duty when the war began. Attacked by japanese has to do with conflict that us was involved in with japan (competing with each other for control of pacific area for 90 years)
