Use of patriotism and nationalism Patriotism and nationalism were two of the most important themes of propaganda.

The CPI measures the average change in prices over time that consumers pay for a basket of goods and services, commonly known as inflation. Essentially it attempts to quantify the aggregate price level in an economy and thus measure the purchasing power of a country’s unit of currency.

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During World War II, the entertainment industry changed to help the war effort. Through regulation and censorship, governments sought to keep spirits high and to depict the war in a positive light. They also found new ways to use entertainment media to keep citizens informed.

The ‘home front’ covers the activities of the civilians in a nation at war. Such drives helped strengthen civilian morale and support for the war effort. Each country tried to suppress rumors, which typically were negative or defeatist.

Rationed items included food as well as items made from materials used in the manufacture of military supplies, equipment and arms. Such things as clothing fabrics, shoes & other leather goods, metals, oil products and rubber were hard to obtain.

The studio system was challenged under the antitrust laws in a 1948 Supreme Court ruling which sought to separate production from the distribution and exhibition and ended such practices, thereby hastening the end of the studio system.

Following the demise of the studio system in the 1950s and ’60s, the star system became the most important stabilizing feature of the movie industry.

Moguls and Movie Stars is a 2010 Turner Classic Movies 7-part documentary. The documentary tells the history of Hollywood pioneers making movies….Early moguls.

Paramount Pictures, Inc., 334 U.S. 131 (1948) (also known as the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948, the Paramount Case, the Paramount Decision or the Paramount Decree), was a landmark United States Supreme Court antitrust case that decided the fate of film studios owning their own theatres and holding exclusivity rights …

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The Production Code spelled out what was acceptable and unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States. From 1934 to 1954, the code was closely identified with Joseph Breen, the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood.

Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theater as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice among Hollywood’s major studios from the turn of the 1930s until it was outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948).

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not an arthouse film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicized bottom half of a double feature (akin to B-sides for recorded music).

In broadcast programming and motion pictures, a tent-pole or tentpole is a program or film that supports the financial performance of a film studio or television network. A tent-pole film may be expected to support the sale of tie-in merchandise.

A production code number, also known as the production code (PC) or episode code is an alphanumeric designation used to uniquely identify episodes within a television series. In some rare cases, shows will film episodes out of order to accommodate guest stars’ schedules, or to work around main stars’ movie schedules.

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Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to films, videos, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality. These reproduced sounds, named after sound-effects artist Jack Foley, can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass.

Production. The Sounds was filmed in early 2020 on location in the coastal settlement of Huia and Cornwallis Beach in Waitakere City, Auckland and at Whangaroa Harbour in Northland, New Zealand. It was a co-production of South Pacific Pictures and Shaftesbury Films.

The Marlborough Sounds are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds were created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels. According to Māori mythology, the sounds are the prows of the sunken wakas of Aoraki.

The Sound is an Australian music program broadcast on the ABC, which first screened on Sunday 19 July 2020. The program is hosted by Jane Gazzo and Zan Rowe with a special guest co-host each week….The Sound (Australian TV series)

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