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I’ve seen real footage when ships were bombarding islands before marines landed. The movie 12 ‘O Clock High has real footage of dogfighting and bombers going down. Most from documentaries of WWII I’ve watched, unless they stage Japanese jumping off cliffs in Saipan etc. I don’t recall acting or staging. When they put up the 🇺🇸 on Mount Suribachi the first time (not the famous one) maybe they asked the marines to do it again, but I don’t think they were actors. Could you give me an example of it in WWII? I don’t doubt you at all, I’m very curious because acting and staging during war to capture on film is a new concept for me. I’ve watched thousands of hours of footage or movies of footage of WWII. My father was from the Black Panthers 66th Div. He married a Japanese war bride, but died when I was 13 and I’ve been fascinated by what they experienced. Thanks
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-propaganda/
They actually had professional directors produce these clips and would show them to the populace. They filmed "war scenes". The Japanese actually hired the famed director Akira Kurosawa to film battle scenes for them to show to their citizens. The problem with Japanese propaganda was it was too fair to both sides.
This clip is full of scenes enacted for the camera. They are made to look like they are filmed on a battlefield at times, but that would be dangerous so they only re-act it. Several of the ones in this clip are probably actual soldiers but they are told what to do. You want them to look good on camera. You have a message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzDHEJoE1ao
Do you really want to send reporters on the ground to get close to the tank when the enemy could shoot them? Getting good shots means getting up close. It's safer to just just stage a "deployment". One of many examples of this is in this clip.
The point of propaganda clips are either to show your side stomping on the enemy, too powerful to be defeated (huge number of troops), or to demoralize your enemy (show their troops surrendering) ect. It was a lot harder to get those moments back in the day. So they filmed it.
There are many practical reasons to just film what you need rather than try to send a professional crew into a warzone full of bullets and bombs. The propaganda has a big effect on public opinion. So you want to get "good" stuff, but trying to do a real documentary of war-weary troops is unrealistic. Do you really want to go up to actual civilian's child who got shot through the arm and say "hey can your injured child pose for us outside. It'll probably make Time Magazine!"
No, it'd be crazy. Easier just to put some blood and bandages on a healthy kid and film the shots, then tell everyone they are a victim of the violence. It sways the public whether real or not.
Even if its based on real events it could take a long time to get any actual footage out of the battle (that can be used for history books), but propaganda needs the images NOW. So many just film what they need and show that to the publlic.
Thanks for links. You’ve given me a lot to think about.
Sure!
Well, think about this. Let's say you're the US and you won a decisive battle over the Japanese. The new is hitting the papers, BUT it'll take weeks and weeks before any footage from actual on the ground reporters can be sent back and sorted through. You need to get images now for the public consumption while the news is coming out. There is no logistical way to do that. The film will take forever to get back and be edited.
Instead you just hire crisis actors and directors to "depict" the battle and show that on the news. With propaganda the staged event might be based on a real event, but the point is you need the propaganda now, not later. Most people seem to have a hard time wrapping their head around that.
The staged event might be based on a true event like movies do, but it just wasn't practically to film in the real battle or the footage they got was crap. Tons of reason it's easier and safer for governments to fake it.
The Propaganda wars are real.