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| Title | Boycott the Movies! |
| Description | Boycott the Movies! is another one of many pieces of anti-semitic propaganda distributed in the late 1930s, aimed specifically at Jews in Hollywood. It reads: "Christian Vigilantes Arise! Buy Gentile; Employ Gentile; Vote Gentile." In the upper-center of the flier is an illustration of a beautiful young girl sandwiched between a creepy-looking hooked-nose man and a snake. The snake's tail weaves in and out of the O's in the word HOLLYWOOD. There is a large star of David in the background. The flier goes on to read: "Boycott the Movies! Hollywood is the Sodom and Gomorrha where international Jewry controls vice, dope, gambling -- where young gentile girls are raped by Jewish producers, directors, casting directors who go unpunished. The Jewish Hollywood Anti-Nazi League controls Communism in the motion picture industry. Stars, writers, and artists are compelled to pay for communistic activities." Legend has it that this flier was tossed from the roof of the Taft Building on Hollywood Boulevard to "snowstorm" pedestrians below. 11 x 8.5 in. |
| Subject | Antisemitism
Anti-Jewish propaganda
Jews in the motion picture industry
Propaganda, Anti-communist
Fascism
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| Keywords | Anti-Hollywood propaganda; Nazi; |
| Location | Los Angeles (Calif.)
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| Date | 1938 |
| Photographer/Author | Allen, Henry
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| Donors and Others | Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles
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| Media | Flier (printed matter)
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| Media Measurement | 28 x 21.5 cm |
| Identifier | CRCms133 |
| Language | eng
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| Type | text
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| Format | text/jpeg
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| Repository Name | Delmar T. Oviatt Library. Urban Archives Center
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| Collection | Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles Collection
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| Repository Number | Box CRC/2 90-37 |
| Exhibition information | Case 11, #8
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| Rights | http://digital-library.csun.edu/copyright.html |
| Project Name | In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945 |
| Date Digitized | 2007-10-27 |
| Date cataloged | 2007-10-27 |
| Publisher | Delmar T. Oviatt Library |
