Show lId 1 Looking at HOLLYWOOD SINCE most people believe that w the postwar world will be a. a wondrous wondrous won- won drous rous affair with new discoveries in science and transport revolutionizing lag ing ng our everyday living it occurred occurred oc- oc to me some changes will be due in the motion picture industry I dont don't remember who said I dont don't care who makes our laws so soong long ong as I can make our pictures but I hied me over to Darryl F F. F Zanuck a producer producer pro- pro ducer lucer on whom the he genius tag is pretty firmly tied since he made Wilson and asked him him what sort of film fare we are going to give our returned soldiers I wanted Darryl F. F to 0 know what we Zanuck could expect of the he film of the future There was Zanuck pacing up and down his lush office like a caged tiger swinging a polo mallet to give greater emphasis and and he was ready to give Here lere is what I got got got- The over-all over picture of the postwar cinema industry is a radical one It has las little in common with the Industry industry indus- indus try ry we know today Said Zanuck The postwar film will be International international ional in scope Picture-making Picture in our peacetime era will be a far different different different dif dif- ferent thing than it is today The broadening scope of world vision that comes with peace will bring v about the ascension of a great foreign foreign for- for eign ign star I would not be surprised to see a great Chinese actress become become become be be- come a dominant figure I look to see our company Twentieth Twentieth Twentieth Fox Century-Fox open a large studio studio stu stu- StU 1 dio in a foreign land quite land quite possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly India where India where pictures will be aimed at world consumption al although although although al- al though made basically for the East I would have no hesitancy in making a motion picture with a alove alove alove love story between a typical American Ameri Amen can boy and a Chinese girl The same is true of a picture with a type high-type Indian and an American girl Films for lor Freedom The reeducation of Germany will center largely around its film industry in in- Films were the instrument most freely used to propagandize the German people into Films should therefore be the most powerful Instrument used in their reeducation I would personally like to have havethe havethe havethe the job of running the postwar German German German Ger man studios I do not think this should be done by a government agency It should be done by motion picture men After all we made our product so popular abroad that dictators dictators dictators dic dic- banned our pictures in their countries Well with that for a starter and andI I maintain that's a good hunk for anyone to chew on lets let's cut back to the psychology of today's soldier as outlined by Zanuck He said War makes men think There are areno areno areno no drunken sprees from our returned returned returned re re- re- re turned soldiers today These boys transformed into men have fought In 59 localities over every end and corner of the world They're worldwide worldwide worldwide world world- wide in vision Geography isn't something they learned out of a book They didn't have to find the flung far-flung places of the world on a map map they've they've been there The motion motion motion mo mo- tion picture industry will have to keep abreast of their way of thinking thinking thinking think think- ing if we want to continue in busi ness The Three Rs Rf Too Servicemen says Zanuck have reflected reflected reflected re re- a willingness to accept enlightenment enlightenment enlightenment en en- along with their entertainment entertainment entertainment enter enter- and while the poll is high in favor of the up pin-up type picture many significant films rank with musicals in attendance Backgrounds Backgrounds Backgrounds Back Back- grounds outside the United States will be characteristic of many of our new new films and the foreign star will come back into favor I Our international casting average average average aver aver- age will mount higher and higher when the avenues of foreign talent shut out by wars are opened again There sho should ld be no national boundaries boundaries boundaries bound bound- aries in art There arent aren't any in music painting or sculpture The talent of the world should and must be brought to our audiences This will not come as any jolt to the people at home Were We're building building building build- build ing up a new audience here too They know new names places they'd possibly never have heard of if their sons hadn't been fighting there Many of them are re buried there They'll want to know more about St. St Malo and Cassino and and those places are familiar household words now The Truth Brought Bach Back Jinx Falkenburg all dolled up in ina a sarong on the Song of Tahiti set walked over to chat with a bunch of visiting marines just back from 1 r the South Pacific Said SIJ Jinx Tell me me-do me do you think I make an authentic tic South Sea Island girl After a brief hesitation one of the marines marinE's spoke up and said Well hardly Miss Falkenburg The trouble is youre you're about 80 pounds underweight you yeu smell too nice and you have far farloo farloo loo many teeth I |