Little thing that hollywood has a very. Little is literally a defiant world so this isnt a. New round of horror. You know mr and. Hollywood is a place and an idea has got the movie Studios Television weve got the Music Industry sometimes as we know its also a place where theres a lot of propaganda. Or whatever part of the the u. S. Government is committed you know you can be sure that hollywood will be following here within 12 months. Out without. Defined hollywood is a call between a manufacturer with events true. But i think equally its a propaganda. Long after i 1st heard about it in the news i still couldnt believe this was this really how the United States sees the history of forward to but there it was the official white house on a social network and its 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 african website looks even more discouraging there it turns out that world war 2 was started by germany and the soviet union it wasnt russia but france that took the brunt of it and in fact the u. S. S. R. Didnt 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 well learn how history has been written and rewritten through american cinema. In 1903 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. To the soviet union in the name of my government thank you the u. S. 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 experimented to find ways to increase our efficiency what kind of effect is this that much different than 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 pictures or books and we see modern army work in factories and friendly people who speak fluent english. Oh how proud i would be if i could do that well its russian perhaps someday we shall all speak the same language if the wood producer even flirted with the idea of making a film like this theyd probably be branded as crazy but it was still possible back in the 940 s. This is one of my favorite parts and aide tells 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 were 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 it was based on a book written by a master davis himself so were 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. To know thank you. Thank you. But its not going. To see who do you plan your visit with that i believe so that history will record you as a great builder for the benefit of mankind it is not my mr davies out of 5 plans were conceived and carried out by the people themselves again this is how we would this isnt soviet propaganda the movie itself. Is the purge trials that were taking place in the soviet union its really apologies for the stalinist 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 doesnt 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 cofounder of one of hollywoods most successful Film CompaniesMetro Goldwyn mayer. But understand why famous american producers shot such a blatantly perfect and they stick picture we need to go to the archives of the library of congress where a document from the socalled office of for information of the United States is still stored. In war from was established in 1942 by the Roosevelt Administration was basically a propaganda effort. Many times again its a legal residence in the sense in it they did it because you split it into. Franklin roosevelt knew that if he wanted to actually turn American Public opinion into supporting the war and even more so than some porting our soviet allies during the war he was going to need to use how that would. Lead a lot of what has got to davis cup one of the classes. For sally who was a. Little door. At that shit is. Glorious shit is well north and you feel it. 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. Ive missed you too plenty. Something id like to explain. That there were other orders that werent so benevolent in 1942 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 officer 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 their crap the 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 that it was none of that but they were off the war from asian produce various documentaries defending this practice. But the Office Issued a very different instructions concerning the u. S. S. R. The soviet union was to be portrayed as a friend of the. America in distress. In the north star and his soviet presence peaceful life is interrupted by the not seen beijing. After the germans captured a village they begin taking the childrens 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 commanded 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 a few 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 to show through the young characteristics young that the u. S. The day of washington and. Propaganda of the propaganda film including the 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 groups leader was played by biting hollywood actor gregory peck. Gregory pack was the brad pitt of the 19 fifties and sixties he starred alongside audrey have burning roman holidays in 953 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 alias star was still an unknown actor back in the 940. 00 s. Hes debut role than hollywood was as a solvent partisan later named latimer or a surrogate are you. Thank you now some problems. Of gold of that i mean i went and theyve been it would be less than that sell a sit in bus with a propaganda but also his. Young warrior talk dr lee would be more serious we had to change american thinking about the soviets and we did so successfully it wasnt only hollywood that participated in the campaign to improve the soviet unions image leading newspapers and magazines were also involved here for example is what the American Media wrote about lattimer lenin in those years well you know doesnt buy chortle to the greatest level of more little time. Somebodys mere lists you wont spot still sort of meet all of a book tiny in you can be many lost a simple instead of the globe and there are no been the tsunami alone. New york times and that was the sentiment during the war that the soviets were brave her roic of resisting the nazis and so it downplayed the crimes of stalin and the repressive aspects and all of american writing or propaganda during the war including in the hollywood films thats 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 have been shown about them previously were not entirely true the world is driven by shaped by. No dares thinks. We dare to ask. Nuclear power become a battleground in the us in vermont people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limit this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on wheres the power in this country where is it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional for just a few. Power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways our struggle on r. T. For a merger would. Not mean. Order. Entry control of ski was the 1st soviet filmmaker to leave for our wood before the collapse of the us sorry. In 989 he directed an action comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and kurt russell called tango and cash by that time hed already realized that hollywood wasnt the place hed originally imagined. Just rivers from the. New year. It was more. Shy. Burgess ignition. Lead you could drop in. For new years in america because your home. Your former produce officials go for doing research. Despite making a serious of successful films in the us including tango and cash runaway train and marias lovers and reconsider lost his dad to return to russia in the early nineties as hed already become entirely disenchanted with the american film industry. Who were stronger would you. d more would i started. Hollywood was. All in portraying the soviet union in a positive light during world war 2 that they need us president harry truman began to quickly regret it after the surrender. Of the quintile is still a. Little bit didnt. Know should it be able to let the city of new presley shouldnt she world in him only use it as. A reliable because the closest good. America. To the left is the british in those little. In the 19th thirties the communist party in the United States was pretty strong. And i say that is a good thing they were critical in fighting early fighters for civil rights in the United States hollywood has attracted all these creative artists writers directors producers actors and actresses and intellectuals were the ones who were 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 947 the House Unamerican Activities Committee or down on the hollywood it was this committee that introduced this socalled how the would blacklist which included people should be excluded from working in the u. S. Film industry due to their alleged political convictions. The u. S. 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 sony. C. D. s hollywood back on board on the anti soviet train. Among those given testimony to the House Unamerican 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 anime propaganda and it screenplay writer Lillian Hellman was accused of being a communist sympathizer and damning label in those years suddenly all of those. Film the propaganda films that were 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 in 1956 was at it i. How what 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 their movie make an industry and i just can wrap my head around how they actually pulled this off by these publicity trials as 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 lets be honest have we anything like it in question you know can you imagine what the brits would be a little like that. What a film that pokes fun at the behavior of soviet bird cross abroad was shot in 1939 but it turned out to be most useful with the onset of the cold war. Oh my god. What an image the comedian made it ok actually just because a lot of us who know the little garbled. Somebody really really boasts of their own little serious well could go to the most. Ok. The americans actually distributed and promoted and postwar europe especially in italy where the communist partys 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 lets go to the most. Serious case broke american realistic many people say real 2 thirds as well if you dont need to admit it and there were 7 but used to every school. Local in america. We have the high ideals but have the climate. The hollywood began producing a spate of. Anticommunist films during this time with the same propaganda averages now by the average idealistic about anything the women. Are they were beautiful and they were beautiful they were nymphomaniacs now my students find them laughable but at the time they were taken seriously movies like i was i mean as for the. I married a communist i read moscow guilty of treason the red menace this was a terrible time in america in 954 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 3 seized power there. But by the sixtys and seventys relations between the us and the with the star had already reached the point of the time and this was immediately reflected in the Hollywood Pictures in the soviet union was still in the present and as a friend of the United States but he wasnt presented as an enemy so it was more like the United States than the soviet union could cooperate against the bad guys look at the james bond movies thats a classic all the drama with it would always be a russian agent who would be the tune and the cia people would be d wearing the visions of him but the glue is cooperating again the real enemy. Relations between the countries began to deteriorate again in the eightys after Ronald Reagan who had been actively anti communist even when he was a hollywood actor became president of. 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 proceed to follow the capital with capital one of those that are both its seen that on the test for some diplomat the lone voice resort of mr mason with the lead on im the 2nd beagle said its because say this because theres been no people. Not because there was still to come theres were rumors rumors. Never just personally but it was widely followed the policies of the state department the p