Foundations Of Hollywood During World War II

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Being one of the most popular forms of entertainment during World War II, movies set foundations that would continue to be cherished for many years following the war. Hollywood movie studios, obviously sympathetic to the Allied cause, soon adapted standard plots and serials to feature our enemies at the time, Nazis and the Japanese, as villains and as types of people who did not have human like characteristics. Times have changed since then resulting in the more free usage and depictions of those people in movies now. In the early '40s, as war was starting to gain importance in Europe, the goal of Hollywood studios was still to entertain. Many productions were films that were uplifting in order to have the American public happier in a time