The Cold War: Film Analysis

The Cold War was a clash between the Capitalists in American and the Communism in USSR, which are both to blame for the starting of the war. In the latter half of the twentieth century is the central place of American civilization in which Stephen Whitfield gives us an inside to the world as it once was and how it is now a thing of the past. Stephen’s goal was to open the eyes to those who were not around during this time and to those who were, might bring up ancient memories of how things used to be. When the Cold war began producers were not allowed to film certain items, however, by the 1950s it was safer to produce films without any political or economic implications at all. “Although Broken Arrow (1950) had presented Cochise sympathetically as a peace-loving Apache, Monogram Studios abandoned its plans for a movie on Hiawatha, whose efforts to achieve peace among the Iroquois nations might be interpreted as a boost to Communist peace propaganda (Document 1, pg. 229).” During the time of the Cold War, the media’s communication evolved from broadcasting over the radio to print in newspapers and then into
The primary source, A Game Show Producer Remember the Red Scare has a very similar outlook on how films produced and the allowance of things in the films. Mark Goodson tells about the time in the Mid-1950s during the production of What’s My Line? poet Louis Untermeyer had been listed in Red Channels, which was a list of names of those affiliated with communist causes. Due to his involvement and the outcries of citizens Louis was dropped from the show. He was being naïve when he lent his name out for what he thought was a good cause and ultimately led him to getting dropped for the show. “CBS