Iran Gets Hollywood Propaganda Help

Newsmax ^ | March 2, 2009 | James Hirsen

[holy joe]

Some Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences folks recently went over to Iran to lend their expertise in filmmaking.

“I can confirm that a group of Academy members . . . are currently in Iran” on a “completely private initiative for educational and creative exchange and with no political agenda,” Academy Communications Director Leslie Unger told the AFP.

According to Unger, the Tinseltown travelers include actresses Annette Bening and Alfre Woodard, screenwriter and film director Frank Pierson (writer of “Dog Day Afternoon,” producer William Horberg (“Cold Mountain”) and former Universal Pictures Chairman Tom Pollock.

The team supposedly went to the rogue state to teach the Iranians about screenwriting, directing, acting, documentary filmmaking, and production.

In the instructional process, the Iranians may be learning how to better propagandize...

[Oldpuppymax]

As if these people needed any instruction on creating phony scenes!

[a fool in paradise]

Hitler's Reign Of Terror opens with condemnations of Nazism by historian Samuel Seabury, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and Novelist Fannie Hurst. It then reviews the past with such newsreel footage of Nazi Germany as was available...

In New York, Hitler's Reign Of Terror dew capacity crowds for two weeks, despite the fac that the state censor board refused the film a license. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ignored an appeal from the Steuben Society of America to ban the film on the grounds it stirred up racial hatred - against Germans. In Chicago, the film was initially banned in compliance with the wishes of the German counsel, but it was permitted to reopen after the title was truncated to the nonjudgmental Hitler's Reign. The publicity campaign for the film capitalized on the efforts to suppress it... "See Hitler's brutalities with your own eyes! Atrocities that have been suppressed until now! Ripping aside the curtain on history's most shocking episode and exposing the Nazi menace in America!"

Critics were unimpressed and audience reaction outside of New York tepid. "Significant only in the sense that it is given over almost entirely to denunciation of Hitler and his works, this picture adds nothing to the knowledge of Nazism that is not already known," the Film Daily observed dryly about the most prescient American film of 1934. "It argues that Hitlerism is directed not only against the Jews, but against the Protestants and Catholics and that it menaces world peace."

The fate of an anti-Nazi project (The Mad Dog of Europe by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Sam Jaffe) that never reached the screen offers the best case study of the anti-anti-Nazi forces at work in Hollywood during the early days of the Third Reich in Germany...

On July 17, 1933, Will Hays called Jaffe and Mankiewicz into his office and told them to cease and desist. Hays accused the pair of trying to make a quick profit on a "scarehead situation" and thereby create problems for the motion picture industry in Germany.

- Pre-Code Hollywood - Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934 by Thomas Doherty (published 1999 by Columbia University Press)

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ah, those "Hollywood Jews," always putting "Israel first!"

[/sarcasm]