oon this film you have corneilus vanderbilt. they are clear eyed about persecution of the jews. which brought up in a way in this film that you wouldn't see in hollywood until year later. >> vanderbilt saw the up ragech he. >> grabbing the fil filmness fid to save and i crawled under the car and glued the cans to the bottom with tape. what happens next becomes a shock to the film maker hit letter the reign of terror screened in new york and clog and san francisco. but it was immediately panned. >> the influential film daily dismissed the notion that hitler would be any threat. and then vanderbilt's movie faced a kind of pressure that document tea air--mentry. documentary. in 1915 the 1915 they determinet films were a business. any state or any city could ban a film or demand that a film be cut before it played in their region. so a motion picture maker really had to go through a series of options or hurdles to getcontroversial films played in the 1930s. which is a main reason why the hollywood studios stayed away from that controversial content. >> a san francisco theater manager