Propaganda in Motion Pictures: Hearings Before the United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Subcommittee on S. Res. 15, Seventy-Seventh Congress, First Session, on Sept. 9-11, 15, 23-26, 1941 |
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... British sentiment , and then called a list of Jewish names asso- ciated with the motion - picture industry , drolly exaggerating their most Hebraic- sounding syllables , with pauses to encourage his inflamed hearers to shout and hiss ...
... British sentiment , and then called a list of Jewish names asso- ciated with the motion - picture industry , drolly exaggerating their most Hebraic- sounding syllables , with pauses to encourage his inflamed hearers to shout and hiss ...
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... British for mercenary reasons . Senator Nye argues that if Britain should be defeated , the motion - picture industry would be deprived of a portion of its revenues , now derived from pictures sold in Great Britain . This charge , of ...
... British for mercenary reasons . Senator Nye argues that if Britain should be defeated , the motion - picture industry would be deprived of a portion of its revenues , now derived from pictures sold in Great Britain . This charge , of ...
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... British and French propaganda departments about making films to interest Americans in fighting for them We made 86 000 feet of film , with everyone working for us , from the King and Queen of England to the French and British common ...
... British and French propaganda departments about making films to interest Americans in fighting for them We made 86 000 feet of film , with everyone working for us , from the King and Queen of England to the French and British common ...
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... British market accounted for the profit . The com- pany , it was estimated , could pay $ 5 a share . But if Britain loses , then that $ 5 would be reduced to zero . Another company depends for 35 percent of its earnings on the British ...
... British market accounted for the profit . The com- pany , it was estimated , could pay $ 5 a share . But if Britain loses , then that $ 5 would be reduced to zero . Another company depends for 35 percent of its earnings on the British ...
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... British Govern- ment allowed only $ 17,500,000 to be withdrawn . Therefore , each company had to leave about half of its cash income in England . Next year , it is understood only about $ 12,000,000 will be made available in exchange to ...
... British Govern- ment allowed only $ 17,500,000 to be withdrawn . Therefore , each company had to leave about half of its cash income in England . Next year , it is understood only about $ 12,000,000 will be made available in exchange to ...
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Page 8 - It cannot be put out of view that the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit, like other spectacles, not to be regarded, nor intended to be regarded by the Ohio Constitution, we think, as part of the press of the country, or as organs of public opinion.
Page 2 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 104 - If you have any questions you would like to ask, I would be glad to answer them.
Page 2 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such...
Page 2 - ... to take such testimony and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $10,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman.
Page 393 - UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Fred H.
Page 29 - Columbia, a restraint of trade, in violation of the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1890, entitled 'An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 36 - Suppose, then, that we recess until 2 o'clock. (Whereupon, at 12 noon, a recess was taken until 2 pm of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION The subcommittee resumed at 2 pm, on the expiration of the recess.
Page 31 - Griffith towns in violation of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act in the following manner.
Page 393 - ... here. That concludes the witnesses scheduled for this morning. The committee will meet again at 2 o'clock this afternoon. (Whereupon, at 11 : 55 o'clock, the subcommittee recessed until 2 o'clock.) AFTER RECESS (The subcommittee reconvened at 2 pm, upon the expiration of the recess.) Senator HATCH (chairman of the subcommittee). The subcommittee will please come to order. I have a statement prepared by Representative Kilburn of New York in behalf of the St. Lawrence seaway project, which will...