Word: debunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the daily newspaper and the radio there is no more potent propaganda weapon in the United States than the motion picture. Hollywood has not been unconscious of its power; through the late 1930's the films ceased to debunk war and gradually, through such efforts as "Arise My Love," made Americans conscious of its implications. In fact, these films provoked certain Senators so far into consciousness that they started an investigation of war-mongering among Hollywood producers last fall. But the movie industry today seems to be resting on its laurels, whatever they...