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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.

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Movies Will Make Yanks out of Foreigners

• Touchstone Magazine, 1920 •