opportunity to
contribute enormously
to cause of freedom
According to Wikipedia, “Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. It was originally written for American soldiers to help them understand why the United States was involved in the war, but US President Franklin Roosevelt ordered distribution for public viewing.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Frank Capra, daunted but impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 propaganda film Triumph of the Will, worked in direct response. The series faced various challenges, such as convincing a noninterventionist nation to get involved in the war and to become an ally of the Soviet Union. Many entries feature Axis powers’ propaganda footage from up to 20 years earlier, recontextualized to promote the Allies.
Also according to Wikipedia, Mr. Capra had a meeting with General George Marshall discuss plans for the movies.
Mr. Capra writes in his autobiography, The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography )New York: Macmillan, 1971) that General Marshall said to him: “Now, Capra, I want to nail down with you a plan to make a series of documented, factual-information films—the first in our history—that will explain to our boys in the Army why we are fighting, and the principles for which we are fighting. … You have an opportunity to contribute enormously to your country and the cause of freedom. Are you aware of that, sir?”
Documented, factual-information films …
That will explain to our boys in the Army why we are fighting …
and the principles for which we are fighting …
You have an opportunity to contribute enormously to your country …
You have an opportunity to contribute enormously to the cause of freedom …
The cause of freedom.
Isn’t that what this Country was all about?
Maybe we need to watch these movies again.
I don’t think the idea of making a contribution to the cause of freedom is much on anyone’s mind today.
Are you aware of that, sir?
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