A study of the war time control imposed on the civilian motion picture industry and with some reference to those affecting the Army motion pictures during World War II

UnrestrictedIt is the purpose of this study to examine the background of security regulations and censorship rules as they affected the commercial motion picture industry in Hollywood. The fears of the industry as to what might happen to it, and the actual effects of the regulations will also be discussed. Further there will be an analysis of the changes in production methods and the regulations set up for making of Army films by the Signal Corps of the United States Army, as well as a discussion of the overall change in production methods and the increases in the amount and type of pictures produced for the war effort. (The Army portion of the study is not as complete as the writer desired, due to the classification of the subject by the Army and the inability to get to the files of Army Intelligence. The problems brought up in the study furnish abasis for further investigation at a later date