the Allies of World War II would have found it difficult to gather as much support for

their causes as they did. Guns, tanks and bombs were the principal weapons of World

War II, but there were other, more subtle, forms of warfare as well. Words, posters, and

films waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the masses of the world just as

surely as military weapons engaged the enemy. Persuading the public became a wartime

industry, almost as important as the manufacturing of bullets and planes. Both sides

launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to galvanize public support, and some of

these nation’s foremost intellectuals, artists, and filmmakers became warriors on that

Propaganda in the broadest sense is the technique of influencing human action by

the manipulation of representations. These representations may take the spoken, written,

pictorial, or musical form. Since the cinema uses all four of these types of representations,

a filmmaker would seem to wield a lot of power as a propagandist. If he so choosed to

use his power to its fullest potential. The essential distinction lies in the inten

studios, the large technical and artistic staffs, et, all cost a lot of money, but the result, the

the Reichstag from 1939. When preceded by sixty minutes describing the Jewish problem,

people from Germany and Europe alike. He adopted such support by using his Nazi

to thousands. Gather support in a occupied country was a lost cause when the people are

French lanquage mini-movies designed to be shown in secret locations in Nazi-held

the German press, radio and newsreels publicized alleged evidence of persecution of

a four week period in Occupied France. Having already edited a pair of English war

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