INFLUENCE OF HOLLYWOOD
GREATER THAN PROPAGANDA. “English contemporary life imitates American life. English young people talk American slang. They begin to adopt the habits of American young people. We have soda-fountains, cafeterias and road-houses,” said Mr J. B. Priestley in a broadcast to America. “Travelling constantly between England and America during the last 10 years I have watched with interest and amusement and, at times, concern, this enormous, rapid growth of American influence, especially among the young people in England. It’s largely due, of course, to Hollywood. It’s almost impossible to over-estimate the influence of Hollywood. People go to the films in their hours of relaxation, when the mind is peculiarly receptive; they tend to go in couples, so that the films are subtly entwined with courtship and love; and the result is a colossal influence, much greater, let me add than that of any deliberate propaganda machine in the world.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 2
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151INFLUENCE OF HOLLYWOOD Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 October 1941, Page 2
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