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On Gold Diggers and patriotism |
| Published: February 28, 2007, 9:16 am |
| Tags: gold diggers of 1933 1933 |
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The movies have, since the days of Griffith, been used to rally public conscience. The best examples are, of course, during the years of the First and Second World Wars. During WWI Hollywood cranked out 'Hate the Hun' propaganda pictures 'til the American government actually asked them to stop because the enthusiasm for hatred these films were creating would make peace with the Germans difficult. On the other hand, WWII saw Britain produce some of the best national cinema of the century, with a social awareness decades ahead of its time. In between, at least in the United States, was the Great Depression. And no film epitomizes the era - at least as it exists in popular imagination - as The Gold Diggers of 1933 and 'Remember My The Forgotten Man' sequence.Watch Remember My Forgotten Man, courtesy of YouTube.Now, plenty of film scholars have seized on this film, as well as the other classic Busby Berkeley musicals 42nd Street and Footlight Parade, as an example of the movie industry [ Full article ] |
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