a little thing that total is a very. low what is actually funny. in the business on the other side isn't. your agree more new ground or border. you know very very. committed to bring your money. hollywood is both a place and an idea so you've got the movie studios television you've got the music industry sometimes as we know it's also a place where there's a lot of propaganda. to whatever part of the the u.s.

government is committed you can be sure that hollywood will be following here we're hearing well. how would i define hollywood is they caught between a manufacturer would say things true. but i think equally it's a propaganda factor. long after i 1st heard about it in the news i still couldn't believe this was this really how the united states sees the history of forward too but there it was the official white house page on a social network and it's clearly stated that it was america and great britain that defeated the nazis during the 2nd world war without even a word about the soviet union and the version on the official added website it looks even more discouraging there it turns out that world war 2 was started by

germany and the soviet union it wasn't russia but france that took the brunt of it and in fact the u.s.s.r. didn't liberate the europe from hitler but occupied it it feels like the author either knows nothing about history or he does and wants to rewrite it all that makes those old how would movies that were made during the war seem even more remarkable american audience was presented with a totally different picture of the world and the soviet union back that in the next 30 minutes we'll learn how history has been written and rewritten through american cinema. in 1403 at the height to ford were to the united states release mission to moscow a film about a visit to the u.s.s.r. by american ambassador joseph davis who was splayed by actor walter houston. in n.c. now welcome you to the soviet union in the name of my government thank you the us

ambassador arrives in the u.s. sorry harboring a degree of skepticism but on the whole what he sees there and what millions of american movie goers saw along with them breaks all the stereotypes about the soviet government of those times we keep experimenting to find ways to increase our efficiency what kind of effect is this that looks different from the rest yesterday even though. it can usually be compared to. the american film might even make the u.s.s.r. look better than soviet propaganda beatrice because we see modern army work in factories and friendly people who speak fluent english. oh how proud i be if i could do that well with russian perhaps someday we shall all speak the same language if that would produce or even flirted with the idea of making a film like this they'd probably be branded as crazy but it was still possible back in the 940 s. this is one of my favorite parts an aide tells of the american ambassador mr davis

we need to check your office and this is why the higher rank an american diplomat tells us and stop gossiping and stop listening to it we're here in a sense as guests of the soviet government not going to believe that they trust the united states to find until a prove otherwise and mazing. in fact the film a semi documentary that was based on a book written by a master davis himself so we're not talking about a fictional diplomat here but a very real one who was so impressed with the soviet government that it seems he was ready to forgive a lot. of water source i q do. you wish to figure. out a time to folks. you know thank you. thank you. we. do see you who do plenty of those who were there i believe so that history will record you as a great builder for the benefit of mankind it is not my mr davies our 5 year plans

were conceived and carried out by the people themselves again this is how we would this isn't soviet propaganda the movie itself. is the purge trials that were taking place in the soviet union it's really apologies for the stalin this government but that was acceptable in 1943 you could do that another hollywood film from the time the north star depicts liason a soviet collective farm on the eve of the war the american audience doesn't hear a word about collectivization or the dispossession of independent farmers. the soviet thousands look well fat and are so happy they sing at the end of their work day. was the filmmakers even went to the trouble of translating the lyrics of a famous salvias song why is my motherland and made american children learned by

heart and. i. was. the north star it was produced by samuel goldwyn co-founder of one of hollywood's most successful film companies goldman mayer. but understand why a famous american producer shot such a blatantly propagandistic picture we need to go to the archives of the library of congress where a document from the so-called office of for information of the united states is still stored. more information was established in 1942 by the roosevelt administration was basically a propaganda effort. to listen many times to good use of legal residents and he

said they're going to be used but it will ultimately franklin roosevelt knew that if he wanted to actually turn american public opinion into supporting the war and even more so in supporting our soviet allies during the war he was going to need to use that would. lead a lot of we're just going to davis cup one of the classes. for. the profile down the door as they need to. do is cheat is the new futility. and. i think. sometimes the officer for information commission how they would musical comedies like this is the army which were intended to increase the prestige of military service and raise the morale of soldiers fighting overseas one of the roles in that

film was played by a young actor named ronald reagan the future president of the united states. is due to plenty. to explain. that there were other orders that weren't so benevolent in 1902 after pearl harbor president roosevelt ordered the forced relocation of 120000 japanese people from the west coast of the united states is hard to believe but in those years japanese americans were simply put in buses and sent to specially created internment camps in the u.s. territory the office of for information was staffed with providing media to support this monstrous initiative. japanese fishermen had every opportunity to

watch the movement of our ships. japanese farmers were living close to. this propaganda that the japanese really are going to be act on behalf of the japanese government has sabotaged the war effort and put arsenic in american food and blow up the defense so there was none of that with you after the war information produced various documentaries defending this practice. but the office issued very different instructions concerning the u.s.s.r. the soviet union was to be portrayed as a friend of them. in distress. in the north star in the soviet presence peaceful life is interrupted by the not seen beijing.

after the germans captured the village they begin taking the children's blood for transfusions for their wounded soldiers. the north star was nominated for 6 academy awards and 944 according to declassified documents the office so for information and that its contribution to building a positive image of russia. in this presentation of the suffering and courage of the russians will shown that the strength of russia lies in its people who are willing to give their lives to keep their countrymen from fascist slavery and to ensure a free world football man. none the less the authors did ask hollywood to make if he edits to the script 1st to emphasize that the ideologies of the u.s.s.r. and germany were completely different and this is why the conflict broke out and

secondly show through the young characteristics that the u.s. and russia can work together when peace comes. it was not an accurate portrayal page any stretch of the imagination however they did follow the state of washington and. propaganda a lot of propaganda bill including major hollywood of the time. another pro soviet film released by hollywood during the war years called days of glory tells the story of a detachment of soviet partisans the group's leader was played by biting. nollywood actor gregory peck. gregory pack was the brad pitt of the 19 fifties and sixties he starred alongside audrey abercorn in roman holidays in 153 and in 1962 pack won an oscar for his

performance as atticus finch in the adaptation of the cult american novel ought to kill a mockingbird but the sex symbol and a least star was still an unknown actor back in the 940 s. he's debut role the nollywood was as a solvent partisan later named lattimer or a surrogate for you a guy. i'm. not in any supplements. what's new diminished of gold of that i mean i when they have been it would be less and that sell a syria with a propaganda but also it's. related to. your your part not really with the serious we had to change american thinking about the soviets and we did so successfully it wasn't only hollywood that participated in the campaign to improve the soviet union's image leading newspapers and magazines were also involved here for example is what the american media wrote about lattimer lenin in those years

well below doesn't buy chortled of the greatest level of more little time. somebody's mere lists you want spacek still sort of mean all of. a book timely in you can be too many laws to suit but instead it will buy gold and there are no been the tsunami alone is learned from the new york times and that was the sentiment during the war that the soviets were brave her roic in resisting the nazis and so it downplayed the crimes of stalin and the repressive aspects in all of american writing or propaganda during the war including in the hollywood films that's going to change of course after the war once the cold war begins with the onset of the cold war the task became more difficult now they needed to find a way to explain to americans that our soviet friends were friends no more and in fact they were now animists they also have to imply that some of the things that had been shown about them previously were not entirely true.

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entry control of ski was the 1st soviet filmmaker to leave for hollywood before the collapse of the u.s. sorry. 989 he directed an action comedy starring sylvester stallone and kurt russell called tango and cash by that time he'd already realized that hollywood wasn't the place he'd originally imagined. was. new year. well you would very much less more. reduce the ratio did you betcha congressman mike scott wanted. the and. us. let you could wrap it. up with your mortgage records you know but i'm sure are there josh.

sure ready. despite making a serious of successful films in the u.s. including tango and cash runaway train and maria's lovers and they can she last get his status to return to russia in the early ninety's as he's already become entirely disenchanted with the american film industry. started. hollywood was so successful in portraying the soviet union in a positive light during world war 2 that the new us president harry truman began to

quickly regret it after the surrender. of the clincher list of stone i went up to look at the didn't. know should it be able to the left to say it's got a new pressley shouldn't she we're all in a 1000000 users you. need to realize that is the closest good. america. could get if you establish it in those little little bitty. is the thirty's the communist party in the united states is pretty strong. and i say that is a good thing they were critical biding early 5 years for civil rights in the united states. hollywood has attracted all these creative artists writers directors producers actors and actresses and intellectual. those were the ones who

are most attracted to the communist ideal and they wanted to see the soviet union is representing something better than the sword and materialism of american capitalism so in 947 the house un-american activities committee or down on hollywood it was this committee that introduced this so-called hollywood blacklist which included people should be excluded from working in the us film industry due to their alleged political convictions. the us government had to affirmatively go after leftists in hollywood and destroy their careers and make them testify in congress put people in jail drive people in don employment sometimes into suicide so many. c.d.'s hollywood back on board on the anti soviet train. among those given testimony to the house un-american activities

committee or to put it simply ratting out their colleagues was an actor named ronald reagan the future u.s. president was already actively participating in civic life even in those days. the north star a film about soviet collective farmers that was hailed by the academy just a couple of years earlier was now deemed adamy propaganda and it screenplay writer lillian hellman was accused of being a communist sympathizer and damning label in those years timely all of those films the propaganda film the made during world war 2 well brought into question and hollywood got scared. the north star was eventually released under the name armored attack in the new version the title comrade was removed and narration comparing the nazis to the soviet soldiers who suppressed the hungaroring uprising to 956 was at it.

how would is considered to be an independent private sector of economy a group of private companies and yet it seems like the government finds ways to influence the movie making industry and i just can read my head around how they actually pulled this off by these complicity trials is show trials stalin understood how to do that hitler understood how to do that well the united states under truman and eisenhower also understood added to that. untrained and intimidating hollywood begins to promote an entirely different image of the soviet union. let's be honest have we anything like it in russia now can you imagine what the debts would be to tell like that but a film that pokes fun at the behavior of so you're very cross abroad was shot in 1939 but it turned out to be most useful with the onset of the cold war.

america why was. the new original committee made it ok actually just because a lot of us who know that a government. somebody really really would vote so that a little there is what was totally open they. will be. ok. the americans actually distributed and promoted and post-war europe especially in italy where the communist party's position was strong there was never stated in the film that communism and the u.s.s.r. back it went without saying. nearly so and i was not going to say let's go to the most. serious case broke american realistic many people say real 2 thirds as well if you're going to be too limited on the observant but used to every school. local

when. we have the high ideals but have the climate. the hollywood began producing a spate of. anti communist films during this time oh it's the same propaganda images nobody ever is idealistic about anything that women were either ugly or they were beautiful as they were beautiful they were nymphomaniacs now my students find them laughable but are the time they were taken seriously movies like i was a communist for the f.b.i. i married a communist i read moscow how guilty of treason the red menace this was a terrible time in america in 1954 the united states and great britain released an animated film called animal farm just based on a novel of the same name by george orwell its production was sponsored by the cia

which was very interested in the anti soviet subtext of the story which is about a farm and the big power there i manage i am. actually am how many. traders among us. led by the sixty's and seventy's relations between the us and the us ceasar had already reached the point of detachment and this was immediately reflected in the hollywood pictures the soviet union was not presented as a friend of the united states but he wasn't presented as an enemy it was more like the united states than the soviet union could cooperate against the bad guy look at the gene bomb and he said that's a classic on those drama where there would always be a russian agent who would be the hook to bond and the cia people would be 'd

wary even the visions of him but they could always cooperate again the real enemy. the relations between the countries began to deteriorate again in the eighty's after ronald reagan who had been actively anticommunist even when he was a hollywood actor became president of the. united states even legendary movie boxer rocky billboard played by sylvester stallone entered the fray by taking on the daunting doped up soviet fighter ivan drago and they. have to follow the capital with capital mobility that are both it's seen that on the air force. one with a boy who sort of mr mason with the wife on the 2nd beagle said it's to say this because there's been no people just. not because there was still to come there's the mysterious. number just aren't suitable to. follow the policies of the state department the pentagon well they get a lot of money from the state department and the pentagon the best they found the

pentagon to have a lot of say in in works of hollywood ya. know somewheres risk groups i'm sure. i mean years ago are you. going for go in with your desired should you. should die or should. come sort of here is very emotional issues you're not bored you. meet the parents was still are funny movie love it right. so you find out that deniro was a cia operative at one point ben stiller goes into his layer in the basement and he sees photos of deniro with clinton with what looks like maybe a bent a lot in type figure a originally stiller found

a cia. on deniro suggests this cia itself reviewed the script and said then and then. you're not going to bring up cia torture do they watch every single movie that is about to be produced in our wood in any film that has any military hardware in it an obvious example top gun you've got it asked for permission you don't just walk on to the air force base and start flying jets around. so if you get their permission. they get the right. to look at what you're saying about. the officer for information which was responsible for propaganda during world war 2 was officially closed in 1945 but the relationship that developed between al the wood and the us

government in those years seems to have grown only stronger since stand at different times american rulers have needed different myths including some the directly contradicted earlier ones as in the case of russia 'd but no matter how difficult the order this factory has always do you deflate delivered. hollywood had always been afraid of government censorship so what they did was that they censored themselves. in the fiction. you know what is the worst. i'm not a conspiracy. 1st it wasn't created for propaganda purposes but hollywood certainly is now a real propaganda force in the world probably the greatest propaganda force that's ever existed.

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