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Franklin Delano Roosevelt imposed the Office of War Information (OWI)
by executive order in June 1942 in order to seize even more control
than FDR had from the half-dozen overlapping propaganda agencies that
had operated before the war. Infusing movies with propaganda fell to
the OWI’s Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP). The BMP was run by the
former newspaperman Lowell Mellett. His deputy was Nelson Poynter, the
39-year-old socialist publisher of the St . Petersburg Times.
http://rexcurry.net/medianazi.html
Poynter acted as a promoter of socialism in films of the day,
censoring anything that was too pro-liberty, and even seeing that
movies produced in that era had to pass inspection by the embassy of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics located in New York (see MGM's
1940 movie "Song Of Russia," a blatant propaganda movie glorifying the
socialist misery of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The
Roosevelt administration's Office of War Information (which claimed
the right to "comment" on film scripts) had the script for "Song of
Russia" vetted by the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics!
Similar criticism is merited by Poynter's involvement with film's such
as "Hitler's Children." Note that the title of the film is not
"National Socialist Children" evidencing a misleading habit similar to
one that is still used at the St. Petersburg Times newspaper. The
Times appears to have a deliberately dishonest policy of covering up
the actual name of the National Socialist German Workers Party, in the
newspaper's efforts to rehabilitate socialism. It is as if it
continues the OWI policies of promoting socialism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4
Poynter's OWI policies would have influenced the 1942 movie Joe Smith
American: The title of the movie harkens to the "All American" family,
as shown in the 1942 movie, which includes the early Pledge salute
performed with the hand twisted somewhat in a "cleaned up" version of
the gesture in order to distance it from that of the National
Socialist German Workers Party (the enemy in the movie "Joe Smith,
American"). The Pledge was the origin of the salute adopted later by
German National Socialists, as shown in the book "Pledge of Allegiance
Secrets" by the historian Dr. Rex Curry. In 1942 many Americans
performed the Pledge using the the classic stiff-arm palm-down
gesture. 1942 is when Congress decided to try to change it completely
to the hand-over-the-heart. Many Americans did not care if German
Socialists were using the salute because many Americans said it was
"our salute" and "we did it first" and that was totally correct. The
USA was the origin of the stiff-arm palm-down salute and mechanical
chanting to flags en masse, flag fetishism and military socialism,
from 1892. The video linked here shows the gesture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xipJGXUWjTU
Poynter's OWI policies would have influenced the movie "The Red Pony."
It shows a more "cleaned up" version in the evolution and eventual
demise of the American salute from 1949 (well after WWII was over). In
"The Red Pony" the Pledge is being distanced as the source of the
salute of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0A0ymd0CM |
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