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The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace (1944)

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Record Details:

Title:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Date:
1944
Publisher:
New York : Richard R. Smith
Volume:
The command is forward : selections from addresses on the motion picture industry in war and peace
Leaf #:
00019
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 01, 2025
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NO BLITZ REQUIRED 7 ist United States senators, in the fall of 1941, seeking to pillory patriotic leaders of our industry as "war-mongers" in an abortive and ignoble "investigation." Just 48 hours before Pearl Harbor, the chairman of this Senate sub-committee in an interview published in the trade press insisted that the "investigation" was to be resumed! We of motion pictures can be proud of the fact that with our world-wide contacts we sensed the gravity of the mounting crisis and saw clearly the true nature of freedom's foe. In such films as Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Mortal Storm, Escape, and I Married a Nazi, we portrayed dramatically and entertainingly the basic conflict between the brutal Nazis and their hapless victims. Verbal abuse from those so blind they would not see was a small price to pay for the privilege of fulfilling our responsibilities to a vast screen audience of patriotic Americans. Within a week after America's entry into the war, the Motion Picture Committee Cooperating for National Defense became the War Activities Committee — Motion Picture Industry, with all our time and talent and all our resources dedicated to complete and final victory.