Training the Troops through Cartoons
Wartime animated shorts featured a cross-section of inspiring the home front to buy war bonds to educating soldiers heading off to war.
Stories from the Edge Blog
17 Years Later: The September 11, 2001 Attacks
This has become an annual tradition for me, writing about the September 11th Attacks. I tend to write the same thing over and over again. It is no wonder, to be honest. The day...
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
WARNER BROTHERS (1939) | DIRECTED BY ANATOLE LITVAK | WRITTEN BY MILTON KRIMS & JOHN WEXLEY Confessions of a Nazi Spy was the first major film to be unabashedly anti-Nazi. Released in 1939, it was...
Analyzing Photos from World War II
One of the things that I like to do when I talk to people about history is the use of imagery to understand the effects of war and how it could be used as propaganda by the Allies and the Axis. Both used propaganda to sell their goals and reasons. The Nazis were far more sinister in their propaganda efforts.
Research Moving Along for Hollywood and World War II Project
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve last given an update on my Hollywood and government cooperation during World War II project. It is progressing along, sometimes quickly and at other times at a snail’s pace.
Hollywood Goes to War: Links to Check Out
Hollywood enlisted and then some during World War II. Actors, writers, directors, producers, cameramen and other workers either joined the ranks of the military to fight on the front lines or they worked with the government to produce films to “inform” the American public. As I conduct my research into the collaboration between the film industry and the government, I’ve come across several useful links.
Newsreels and World War II
Another aspect of the project I am working is how newsreels were used to information the public. These short films usually were not longer than ten minutes. They appeared before the main future or other films at movie theaters across the nation.
The Celluloid Foxhole: World War Two, the Government and Hollywood
There was no better way for the U.S. government to prepare America for laid ahead after the Pearl Harbor than putting Hollywood to work. The basis of a project I am currently working on is an expansion of two papers I wrote while in college.
A plea for help: My car is in the shop
Here’s the deal: my car is in the shop and is facing a costly repair of $1300 after a major mechanical malfunction. The parts have to be manufactured in a shop which is...
History through Film
Films can educate us about our past but it can also twist it make it unrecognizable and distorted creating a myth that’s false or misleading. This is why I’ve come up with this category for the website. It’s a chance for me to showcase a film or a TV series (I’m a big fan of the series MASH) that is about our collective past as a country and as a people.
My First Witness to Tragedy
January 28th marks the anniversary of the Challenger disaster. I was 11-years-old at the time and in the fifth grade. I was also in the Young Astronauts Program—a program for school kids to get...
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