Movies Will Make Yanks out of Foreigners

Compelled by a wish to instill within the hearts of the nation's newest immigrants a sense of pride in being American, the Americanism Committee of the Motion Picture Industry was formed in 1920 in order to create films that would impart this sensation.

We guess it didn't work, because twenty-one years later, the WPA was given the task of instilling patriotism in the new immigrants - click here to read about it.

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