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Positioning studies versus other films that will premiere at the same time. Test screenings of finished or nearly finished films; this is the most well-known. Testing of audience response to advertising materials. Tracking surveys of audience awareness of a film starting six weeks before premiere.
Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II.It was originally written for American soldiers to help them understand why the United States was involved in the war, but US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered distribution for public viewing.
Film was still relatively new to urban audiences with the outbreak of hostilities in 1914. Governments' use of film as propaganda reflected this. The British and Americans' initial struggles in the official use of film led to eventual success in their use of the medium. The Germans were off to a faster start in recognising film's value as a ...
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Movies were also useful in that propaganda messages could be incorporated into entertainment films. [76] The 1942 film Mrs. Miniver portrayed the experiences of an English housewife during the Battle of Britain and urged the support of both men and women for the war effort. It was rushed to the theaters on Roosevelt's orders.
The use of propaganda in World War II was extensive and far reaching but possibly the most effective form used by the Japanese government was film. [3] Japanese films were produced for a far wider range of audiences than American films of the same period. [ 4 ]
The campaign included several different films: [4] Jenny (c. 1987) showed a mother travelling home from hospital having visited her daughter, Jenny, who was the victim of a drink-driving accident and now in a vegetative state in a coma. Jenny's mother says she tries to visit her every day and reads to her sometimes, and hopes one day she will ...
Production costs and revenues of Walt Disney Studios' Animated Films (1937-1942) Leading into World War II, Walt Disney Studios was on the verge of bankruptcy. [1] While Walt Disney studios had entered the early 1940s with major profits from films like Snow White which had seen high revenues, Walt Disney had a tendency to use all profits from released films towards the production of new ones.