Reviewing Hollywood snakery

[smj]

Pathé was "merged" into RKO by Joseph Kennedy after his bad break-up with Gloria Swanson we're told. The narrative says he hustled poor Gloria and left her broke; but he did show them dastardly 'pant-pressing' jews a thing or two of course...

"Kennedy has no previous experience in show business" was an often repeated phrase in the coverage of his purchase, but that was hardly the case. Kennedy had been methodically planning his move for six years. As he told a fellow broker, "Look at that bunch of pants pressers in Hollywood making themselves millionaires. I could take the whole business away from them." He would come very close to doing just that, the only man in the history of Hollywood to run three studios at the same time. He also helped foment the talkie revolution and pioneered a model of corporate control and vertical integration that the entertainment industry takes for granted today. In the process, he wiped out several studios, slashed hundreds of jobs, and devastated the careers of two of Hollywood's biggest stars, one of whom, Gloria Swanson, was also his mistress."
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2002/04/joekennedy200204

RKO was consolidated by Joe and his buddy General Sarnoff in order to push the talkies we're told...

"Yet back in October of 1927, when Al Jolson announced from the screen, "You ain't heard nothing yet," there were two men besides the Warner brothers who knew instantly that he was right, and that there was a potential for huge profit. That same month, at the Oyster Bar in New York's Grand Central Terminal, Joe Kennedy met with David Sarnoff, the 36-year-old head of the Radio Corporation of America, who had also founded the first nationwide radio network, the National Broadcasting Company, the year before. Kennedy had a studio; Sarnoff had the technical equipment to add sound. They knew they needed more components to realize their grand vision of an entertainment conglomerate that would merge these technologies, but they were off to a great start. Telling no one else, they put their heads together and came up with a plan."
ibid.


http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/wp-con ... arnoff.jpg
http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/ ... arnoff.pdf

...they were rivals of ole T. Keith Glennan of course. T. Keith was pushing the talkies through Western Electric and AT&T...


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Keith_Glennan

According to the narrative crafty Joe also sent poor Gloria's royal bullshit artist of a husband back to Paris to run Pathé Studios...

"Kennedy's next order of business was to have Gloria's husband, Henri, sent back to Paris as head of Pathé Studios in Europe, for in addition to his other roles Kennedy was now a "special adviser" to Pathé at $2,000 a week plus stock options; within weeks he was running the whole show. No man had ever controlled two studios at the same time, but his competitors seem not to have looked upon the situation with suspicion."
ibid.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_de_La_Falaise

So when Joe was finished hustlin' poor Gloria...

"Swanson's pre-Kennedy accountant soon reported that, from the records he could get his hands on, it looked like everything—the bungalow Kennedy had built for her at Pathé, the mink coat he had "given" her, along with all the expenses of Queen Kelly—had been billed to Gloria Productions and were now debts, totaling upwards of a million dollars, for which she was solely responsible."
ibid.

...he could sell Pathé to his old partner General Sarnoff we're told...

"Six months after he left Swanson holding the bag, Kennedy, who by this time owned a substantial amount of Pathé's preferred stock, sold that studio to RKO for almost $5 million. Thus ended what he referred to as "my stay in the business." Once again his timing was perfect. He had sold his stock-market holdings before the crash in 1929, and he now got out of the movie business just before the Depression caught up to Hollywood. Over the next few years box-office receipts dropped by almost 50 percent. Kennedy's vision that only a few major studios would survive proved absolutely correct—picture companies that numbered in the hundreds at the time he had entered the business could now be counted on two hands. At his own lecture at Harvard four years earlier, Kennedy had predicted that the industry was "on the eve now of big consolidations." No one had dreamed that Kennedy was planning on doing most of the consolidating himself."
ibid.

Ten years later Pathé would donate three thousand miles of news reels to Nelson's mommy's institute of the muses of course...

https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdf ... 7.pdf?2010

I'm sure the general that ran the moma for the first ten years of its existence really appreciated the gift...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Goodyear

Here's a newsreel of Joe's protégé and booze business partner, James Roosevelt, going to work for Samuel Goldwyn...


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOP8FL_mC7o
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Roosevelt

...and here's another newsreel announcing the death of Joe's son, Bobby.
The solemn chap making the announcement is Kennedy aide Frank Mankiewicz...


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujPidSx7Vus

Frank's dad, Herman, was the screenwriter for Citizen Kane we're told. Citizen Kane was released by RKO of course...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_J._Mankiewicz

[ProperGander]

Nice work with the Kennedy connection. Imagine a President who has a Hollywood background, how odd...

Can't forget about the real life "Tony Stark' Howard Hughes, Hollywood film maker and mythic aerospace pioneer.

Notice the interest in producing airplane and jet films and the propaganda benefit derived from such production. Is it real or special effects? I think we are seeing model work and composited imagery more often than not.

Hell's Angels is a 1930 American war film

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wmyCcbnX0

Jet Pilot is a 1957 Cold War action film

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhZsaIyWc9o

And of course Harry Houdini was in on it early on:

The Grim Game is a 1919 silent film starring Harry Houdini and Ann Forrest. The basic plotline serves as a showcase for Houdini's talent as an escapologist, stunt performer and aviator.

Hollywood illusion and film making magic or a real daredevil?

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHuyMeXXEic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grim_Game

Terror Island is a 1920 American silent adventure film produced by Jesse Lasky and directed by James Cruze. It is a starring vehicle for illusionist Harry Houdini


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rQsXr23664
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_Island

"Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."

HD-219: MODEL AIRPLANES - PRODUCTION SPECIAL EFFECTS WW2 SHOTS


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1_8Iwi2GzM

Hawker P.1127 Jet VTOL Airplane 1/6 Scale Model Flight Tests circa 1960


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdu0P6TM8qU

Please note with more time and effort, and/or the use of different techniques, the special effects shots would be indistinguishable from what the public saw in all those newsreels labeled as 'real'.
Such techniques include things like using higher speed film and more intricate wire work with the models, as well as using different and better (or worse) film stock and playing around with the type of lens used.

[ProperGander]

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QJr2FvQlqY

At 1:30 there is some really impressive miniature work that I thought worth posting again. Shows how a landscape, terrestrial or not, shown on film or video might not be what we think it is. Seems to me earlier versions of this technique could have been used for years. This technique itself could have been kept secret during 'the war' and could be older than publicly admitted. The 'top secret advanced technology' might just be film production equipment that is a few years to a decade (or longer) more advanced than the public realizes.

The motion control camera is controlled by an early computer and the resulting illusion is impressive.

see also:
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AIR FORCE STATION - Atomic Bomb Movie Studio for the US Air Force in Hollywood
viewtopic.php?f=28&t=452&start=645

[ProperGander]

An example of how films shape culture for years to come. In theaters the public got these ideas that are now common "conspiracy' fare, just like with the 1934 film "The House of Rothschild" where we can discern the evil banker meme promoted prior to World War Two.

Occult Forces (1943) National Socialist Anti-Freemasonry Film

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW4NzVxhnUg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forces_occultes

"Forces occultes (Occult Forces - subtitled The mysteries of Freemasonry unveiled for the first time on the screen) is a French film of 1943, notable as the last film to be directed by Paul Riche (the pseudonym of Jean Mamy)."

"The film was commissioned in 1942 by the Propaganda Abteilung, a delegation of Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry within occupied France by the ex-Mason Mamy. It virulently denounces Freemasonry, parliamentarianism and Jews as part of Vichy's drive against them and seeks to prove a Jewish-Masonic plot."

I have a feeling the world is run by the descendants of the people whose names are on all the foundational documents of our collective global civilization. The rest of it is smoke and mirrors, a scape-goated maze designed to mislead. The world is run by treaty, or to put it another way, commercial contracts, and those have a historical foundation that goes all the way back to the start of what we consider European civilization. What could be 'occulted' is simply the obvious.

Notice how Hollywood and the mainstream media in all the many guises it can assume, promote the 'Freemasonry' myth to this day, with all the references in magazine photography and film and so forth. Another example is ABC NEWS promoting the story about President George W. Bush being part of 'Skull and Bones" back when he was in office. This seems like misdirection to me. Being intimidated by a group who is obsessed with erecting obelisks is like being afraid of Walt Disney and his projected mouse. This seems like the work of artists who spend their time gazing at the excrement of male cows.The same media, by the way, is the source for many of the 'conspiracy' memes in the first place.

Perhaps now we see the purpose of the 'wars'. The reason for all the film production. The reason for the fake news stories. Part of the motive would seem to have to do with the resulting treaties or laws or even gun sales. Some of it might just be intended to keep the public traumatized, so they are more easily sold ideas and product. This would enable the powers that be to mislead the mass public into whatever political configurations they sought to experiment with. Military action also conveniently provides cover for actual engineering projects in areas of the world where one can then exploit cheap factory labor. There seems to be a clear historical pattern of deceptive behavior on the part of those who really run the show.

Most of us cannot examine for ourselves any of the secret society claims past simply reading up on the subject or watching a film or video about it. Being a member of some local lodge isn't exactly what we all mean by 'secret society', and it is not that there isn't something to the concept of shared interest and networking, it is that we are sold an exaggerated 'frame of reference'. Most of it is myth. What is real and physically in our world are all the numerous documents that have been signed over the course of history, which we can examine and which are legally binding to most of us.

An aside: Anyone notice how much both the Allies and Nazi 'world actors' loved taking what we now call 'selfies''?

[ProperGander]

Movietone News


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Gt6hPuMaw
Video posted as example and not for any specific content.

"It evolved from an earlier newsreel established by Fox Films called Fox News which was founded in 1919. It produced silent newsreels.

It is known in the U.S. as Fox Movietone News, produced cinema, sound newsreels from 1928 to 1963 in the U.S., from 1929 to 1979 in the UK (for much of that time as British Movietone News), and from 1929 to 1975 in Australia. One of the earliest in the series featured George Bernard Shaw Talks to Movietone News, released on June 25, 1928.

Fox's first use of recording a news event was on May 20, 1927: Charles Lindbergh's take-off from Roosevelt Field for his historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean was filmed with sound and shown in a New York theater that same night, inspiring Fox to create Movietone News. A regular narrator of the newsreels was broadcaster/journalist Lowell Thomas.

After Fox Films merged with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 to form 20th Century-Fox, the name of Fox Movietone News was shortened to Movietone News.

In Australia, Movietone and Cinesound were competitors for newsreel coverage, but have now combined under the Movietone News name."

https://archive.org/details/NET356_R-2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movietone_News

[ProperGander]

Hollywood creates and promotes the Occult
fear mongering through theater
(Occult just means hidden)

Here we see a popular singer with Ming the Merciless of Flash Gordon fame and a grown up 'swinging' Eddie Munster.
Sammy Davis Jr. possibly one of the evilest men alive. (of course I joke)
Are these just actors on a screen? One of them is a known performer and actor.

How the publishing arm of the mainstream media promotes a meme, and another example of the mainstream media promoting 'conspiracy fare':
The various conspiracy stories told and retold today have their collective origins in Hollywood and with the mainstream press.

Rolling Stone Magazine Promotes Mr. LaVey:

ROLLING STONE SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
It’s not easy being evil in a world that’s gone to hell
September 5th, 1991
By Lawrence Wright
Photographs by Mary Ellen mark

"LaVey's reputation as the Devil incarnate began with his establishment of the Church of Satan, in San Francisco in 1966, and was enlarged through his writings - most notably The Satanic Bible, which was published in 1969 and has sold more than 600,000 copies through thirty printings. It was this book - a romantic celebration of indulgence, vengeance and existential doubt- that earned him the reputation among many religious believers as the “evilest man in the world." It also made him a dark hero to the disaffected, the alienated, the marginal personalities, for whom his philosophy rang chords of recognition and identity."

http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magaz ... 0-004.html

"Zeena Schreck has criticized The Satanic Bible as a financial endeavor suggested by Avon publisher, Mayer. She maintains that it contains large amounts of falsified information about LaVey's past, and that much of the book is plagiarized from Redbeard's Might Is Right, Dee's Enochian Keys, and Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Chris Mathews, in Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture, describes The Satanic Bible as "hastily prepared" and cynical. Both Mathews and a 1971 article in Newsweek compare the ideologies presented in The Satanic Bible to Nazism: containing "unremitting focus on social elitism, appeals to force, and scorn for egalitarian principles". Israel Regardie criticized LaVey's alteration of the Enochian Keys in The Book of Leviathan as stupid and of lower quality than the original Keys"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Bible
"Articles constantly appeared in newspapers around the world as editors sent their reporters to find out why everyone was buzzing about this San Francisco sorcerer. LaVey and the Church of Satan got major coverage in U.S. magazines like Cosmopolitan, Time, Newsweek, Seventeen, even appearing on the cover of Look. Wax figures of LaVey were exhibited in a dozen museums in various parts of the world, the original cast at Madame Tussaud’s wax works in London. The first authentic Black Mass ever recorded, pre-dating the “Black Metal” bands by a couple of decades, was taped live at the Church of Satan in 1968, even before The Satanic Bible was published. Among LaVey’s flurry of radio and television appearances from 1967 to 1974, one particularly memorable performance was an elaborate on-camera ritual for Johnny Carson’s 7th Anniversary show, summoning success for the upcoming year.


… [by 1969], membership in the Church of Satan had already grown to well over 10,000 worldwide.”
Among the first articles written about the new High Priest of Satan was Shana Alexander’s “The Feminine Eye” column in February, 1967, then running in Life magazine. Titled “The Ping is The Thing,” the article opens by describing a ping that is often heard when idly listening to the morning news broadcast: “This ping seems to signal that something funny, or weird, or maybe even profound may have just occurred, although one is never sure.” Alexander then goes on to give a wonderfully engaging account of LaVey and his activities in those early days, describing, as she says, “the jarring clash between the exotic and the utterly banal.”"

http://www.churchofsatan.com/cos-media-circus.php





https://books.google.com/books?id=XlYEA ... &q&f=false

Clearly very mainstream publications were and do promote this meme, and so did Johnny Carson.


Harpercollins owns Zondervan publishing, and Harpercollins publishes Satanic Bible AND 'the joy of gay sex' or something like that. Zondervan puts out NIV bibles, which are not biblically founded..."
Google search result quote.

Hollywood produced many occult films including Rosemary's Baby and a slew of B film 'satanic cult' fare in the 1970's (and to this day).

LIFE magazine serves a very clear purpose of promoting various 'new' or 'reimagined' cultural artifacts, in the form of fashion, or hair styles, or other things (abstract or not) of one kind or another.

see also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Jones

"Controversially, Jones claimed to be a victim of the CIA mind-control program, Project MKULTRA, in the 1960s."
"On December 31, 1972, Jones married radio host Long John Nebel after a one-month courtship; they had briefly met decades earlier when Nebel was a photographer. Jones was soon the regular co-host of Nebel's popular overnight radio talk show, which usually discussed various paranormal topics."

[ProperGander]

MindWars and the Temple of Set with Michael A. Aquino


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0EN65XLv94

A very interesting and telling interview. At around 41:00, and also throughout the interview, notice how Mr. Aquino the 'Mind War' guy, promotes common conspiracy theory memes, easily found on the internet. Notice too, how he claims to have a top secret security clearance with regards to secret science fiction weaponry and then proceeds to clearly lead the viewer to the conclusion that they have such weaponry, which would sort of go against the whole 'secret' thing would it not? Is this man just an actor of sorts? Of course UFO's must be secret technology, the Temple of Set guy said so. A good way to obscure the entire subject with cloud. Nikola Tesla does make reference here and there, over the course of his writings and interviews, to some kind of flying machine. But he never gives any detail and there is nothing to examine. All we have is conjecture and myth. If one is interested in this subject, they really need to do a lot of research into questions like "What is gravity?" which is of course a very complex issue.

Is the "Mind War' just this sort of scripted nonsense? I think there is something to the idea that these conspiracy memes themselves are the weaponry used in this 'war'. The creation and promotion of this alternative style of reasoning, by the mainstream media in the many forms it can take, is a historical fact. Another fact is the military's relationship with the media.

I think this world actor was misleading the public, the real industry 'to fear' is the entertainment one. We really should view the Presidency like we do the BBC's long running serial, Doctor Who. Same character different actor. Funny how the next President would 'die' over airwave and in print one day before the premiere of the BBC's Doctor Who.


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

Please note, one of these men has no Wikipedia entry. Can you guess which one?
http://spirituallysmart.blogspot.com/20 ... leted.html

Origin of the term MATRIX, a science fiction program on the BBC.
"The Doctor realises that the Master sent the Doctor the premonition of the assassination through the Matrix, a vast electronic neural network which can turn thought patterns into virtual reality. He decides to enter the Matrix to track the Master. Engin warns him that if he dies in the virtual world, he will die in the real world as well."


full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm_HBOs1p5Q

see also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Assassin

An example of how material gets propagated as a result of simply having to fill up a time slot. Not everyone involved or any at all need to be 'in on it' as the memes have already been introduced to the public by publications like LIFE magazine and various television shows.

see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13IXD2xG4g

[ProperGander]

Some trauma based mind control material or British Pathé just doing its social duty? Note the assassination around 3:20.

10 More Tragedies Caught on Film

full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGmxN4J01Jw

[ProperGander]

1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident

The media promoting 'conspiracy themes and memes'



"Publicity and Air Force reaction
The sightings of July 19–20, 1952, made front-page headlines in newspapers around the nation. A typical example was the headline from the Cedar Rapids Gazette in Iowa. It read "SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL" in large black type. By coincidence, USAF Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, the supervisor of the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation into UFO sightings, was in Washington at the time. However, he did not learn about the sightings until Monday, July 21, when he read the headlines in a Washington-area newspaper. After talking with intelligence officers at the Pentagon about the sightings, Ruppelt spent several hours trying to obtain a staff car so he could travel around Washington to investigate the sightings, but was refused as only generals and senior colonels could use staff cars. He was told that he could rent a taxicab with his own money; by this point Ruppelt was so frustrated that he left Washington and flew back to Blue Book's headquarters at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Before leaving Washington, Ruppelt did speak with an Air Force radar specialist, Captain Roy James, who felt that unusual weather conditions could have caused the unknown radar targets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Wash ... O_incident

Think of all the 1950's science fiction films that would be produced during this decade, and all the science fiction film and other media we have to this day. The media works hand in hand with itself- it is the proverbial 'Hydra'.

[hoi.polloi]

Thanks, ProperGander, and especially for carefully addressing these things with your writing and thoughtful opinions. It's also great how much you admit you are speculating where it's clear that's what's happening. I appreciate that, and I think readers will as well. That's what separates "link and run" posts from content that actually gives people something special to think about and chew on.

I would only politely ask, for the sake of consistency, that we step away from UFO topics when possible (although the occasional post like yours clearly indicates problems we should be aware of, and ties very well into the MO of the perps.)

I suggest you read my review of the entire program "Doctor Who" here: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1510

And it would probably be useful to add your discovery there as well. The whole show (along with parallel shows like "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek" have a seriously weird connection to the path that many later PsyOps have been taking in contemporary times.)

[ProperGander]

I agree completely about steering clear of things like "UFO' posts and so on.

The science fiction genre gets it funding from somewhere after all. I'll read up on your review when I get a chance. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

[ProperGander]

"For many years, Luce's personal emissary to the CIA was C.D. Jackson, a Time Inc., vice‑president who was publisher of Life magazine from 1960 until his death in 1964.While a Time executive, Jackson coauthored a CIA‑sponsored study recommending the reorganization of the American intelligence services in the early 1950s. Jackson, whose Time‑Life service was interrupted by a one‑year White House tour as an assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower, approved specific arrangements for providing CIA employees with Time‑Life cover. Some of these arrangements were made with the knowledge of Luce's wife, Clare Boothe. Other arrangements for Time cover, according to CIA officials including those who dealt with Luce), were made with the knowledge of Hedley Donovan, now editor‑in‑chief of Time Inc. Donovan, who took over editorial direction of all Time Inc. publications in 1959, denied in a telephone interview that he knew of any such arrangements. "I was never approached and I'd be amazed if Luce approved such arrangements," Donovan said. "Luce had a very scrupulous regard for the difference between journalism and government."

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

Something to consider.

see also:
the work of Jan Irvin with regards to the marketing of acid and mushrooms and the hippie culture to the American public

It occurs to me that the military personnel, as well as the military industrial complex employees, would be the most subject to a propaganda program. Perhaps they are fed tall-tales to tell the public. That's what I would do if I were inclined to deceive the public.

[ProperGander]

Thanks, ProperGander, and especially for carefully addressing these things with your writing and thoughtful opinions. It's also great how much you admit you are speculating where it's clear that's what's happening. I appreciate that, and I think readers will as well. That's what separates "link and run" posts from content that actually gives people something special to think about and chew on.

I would only politely ask, for the sake of consistency, that we step away from UFO topics when possible (although the occasional post like yours clearly indicates problems we should be aware of, and ties very well into the MO of the perps.)

I suggest you read my review of the entire program "Doctor Who" here: viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1510

And it would probably be useful to add your discovery there as well. The whole show (along with parallel shows like "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek" have a seriously weird connection to the path that many later PsyOps have been taking in contemporary times.)

I took a peek, I assume you admire the work as much as I do. I am very much looking forward to reading and digesting your essays. I grew up watching Tom Baker and still enjoy the show to this day, after 'waking up' to things like all the media fakery, I find watching these entertainment products more enriching and interesting than before. The subtext and memes are easier to see and some of the references in dialogue seem to have more meaning than they would otherwise.

I think the design of the Dalek, especially considering the budget they had to work with, great.

[hoi.polloi]

"Admire" may be the most generous word for the ceaseless propaganda featured on that show. However, I mention my thoughts in more detail in the thread. Thanks for reading and contributing!

[ProperGander]

"Admire" may be the most generous word for the ceaseless propaganda featured on that show. However, I mention my thoughts in more detail in the thread. Thanks for reading and contributing!

That's fine with me. I read enough to know you watched it and know what you are talking about. It doesn't matter to me if you 'admire' it or like it or hate it or whatever. Those are opinions and I am more interested in analyzing the media manipulation aspect of the work. The propaganda. I find the subject matter fascinating, obviously, or I would not be posting here. I will post what I think about what you wrote in that thread. It is excellent work. You bring up a bunch of points that have been rattling around my head since the Astronaut suited assassin attempted to kill the Doctor. I am happy to come across someone who noticed the same things I began to.