In the scene when the play JOAN OF ARC is being shut down and the armour is being taken out the stage door you can see a swastika just inside the theatre door on some kind of armoured hood. Does anyone know what the meaning of this may have been in 1934?
shareThe swastika goes back about 3,000 years and has been used by many cultures. The Greeks used it for example and even Native Americans were known to use it. The swastika represented life, sun, power, strength and good luck. Even in the 20th century, the swastika didn't take on negative connotations until later. The swastika was a common decoration used on cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. The swastika adorned the shoulder patches of the American 45th division on the Finnish air force base during World War I. It was removed after World War II. These are just some examples. It was a widely used symbol until the Nazis used it and then it took on a negative connotation.
shareThat makes since.This movie was made in 1934,in the pre nazi era.Just think,in ten years what that swastika would mean.
shareThe Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi party) adopted the swastika as their symbol in 1920. The red background flag with the white circle and crooked cross was finalized by Hitler in Mein Kampf in 1925. Because of the turmoil in Germany and the Great Depression it became very familiar world wide by 1933 when Hitler was made chancellor and flew the flag next to the German colors.
There was a weekly newsreel, "The March Time", shown in movie theaters. ). People would see the visuals of the news at the movies as well as in the newspapers. Movie goers would have a good sense of the highlights of the time.
It didn't take 10 years to signal the Nazi's intent to the world. The Anschluss (annexation of Austria) was in 1938. The worst atrocities were not fully known until 1945, though.
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence
I read that Howard Hawks was an anti-Semite in Lauren Bacall's "By Myself". He hired her for "To Have and Have Not" not knowing she was Jewish, making an anti-Semitic comment in her presence. I also noted that he referred to "Max Birnbaum", ("Max Jacob"s real name) stressing the "Birnhaum" in a disparaging way. There was also a comment (can't remember verbatim) alluding to Italian fascism. Harry Cohen, the head of Columbia Pictures, (the studio that made "Twentieth Century") was known to have an autographed photo of Mussolini on his office wall.
shareThis movie was made in 1934,in the pre nazi era.
what he saidWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
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