Apollo 11: When Man Walked On the Moon
This week marks a historical moment in space travel—it’s the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969...
Writing about history and life
This week marks a historical moment in space travel—it’s the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969...
Wartime animated shorts featured a cross-section of inspiring the home front to buy war bonds to educating soldiers heading off to war.
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...
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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...
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