J Edgar Hoover's Impact On Hollywood

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Walt Disney has been known around the world as the voice of animation his movies are known throughout the world. J Edgar Hoover is known as the director of the FBI during the Cold War he is not known for his effects on Hollywood. During the Cold War both of these men dabbled in areas that they were not experts in.
During the Cold War Walt Disney started a more political angle trying to get more recognition for his work and more profit for his studio. In 1993 Marc Elliott wrote the book Walt Disney Hollywood's Dark Prince he states that Disney used his movies in order to create an American centralized patriotism during World War 2, he illustrates that in the movie saludos amigos which is a movie about Donald Duck traveling to South America and …show more content…

Fried has a different perspective about the FBI and Hoover's attempts at using the media in his 1990 book nightmare in red he states that politicians and federal agencies did not truly understand the impact Hollywood and in order to rein in once they realized how important Hollywood was to their causes did they attempt to curb what they viewed was inappropriate using the Motion Picture Association as well as many other watchdog agencies. The biggest of these agencies according to fried was not an agency but the House Committee on un American Affairs and the Hollywood blacklist that they created during the Red Scare. Fried illustrates that this list as well as the testimonies given by friendly witnesses allowed Hoover and the FBI to clean up Hollywood and to keep it American. On the other side is the 2006 book drawing the line the untold story of the animation unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson written by Tom Soto, his belief is that the federal government understood what Hollywood meant to their platforms long before and their creation of the Mohawk Valley rules which allow studio owners to not deal with union workers but rather to slander them with the press in order to get them to come back without to unionizing is what caused and allowed Hoover as well as the HUAC to believe that they could get away with the blacklist. He use the experiences of animators to illustrate how politicians have continuously interfered with animators lives and livelihood during the Red Scare as well as before

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