Inside Nazi Germany

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Inside Nazi Germany
Crowd in front of the Embassy Newsreel Theatre in New York City showing "Inside Nazi Germany."
Directed byJack Glenn
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • January 18, 1938 (1938-01-18)
[1]
Running time
16 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Inside Nazi Germany is a 1938 short documentary film about Nazi Germany directed by Jack Glenn. It is an episode of the newsreel series The March of Time.

Production

Julien Bryan shot over 25,000 feet of film for the project.[2]

Release

The Chicago Board of Censors banned the film stating that it was "unfriendly to the German government", but Police Commissioner James P. Allman overruled them. Warner Bros. refused to show the film in any of its theaters.[2]

Reception

In 1993, Inside Nazi Germany was deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Synopsis" (PDF). The March of Time Newsreels. HBO Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 6, 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
  2. ^ a b Waldman 2008, pp. 13.
  3. ^ "Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 1, 2012.

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