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"The Canadian mosaic was not a melting pot and [Robert] Lower [director of the 2014 documentary Shameless Propaganda] acknowledges how 'outsiders', that is to say, non-Anglo-Saxon Canadians, were portrayed in NFB [National Film Board of Canada] films during this period. Images of backward Slavs were shown ritualistically walking in religious processions; prevailing anti-Semitic attitudes (including [John] Grierson's own) were upheld at the Film Board; and Asian-Canadians were simply not portrayed at all except for Japanese-Canadians who were derided or shown smiling in internment camps that were named 'relocation districts'. The film Mask of Nippon (1942), a documentary to show the evil Japanese at work to conquer the world is exceedingly racist. In fact, the translation of its French title is Yellow Nazis. Lorne Greene's narration mercilessly spews hateful slurs over images that are essentially benign, thus creating a dichotomy between what we hear and what we see given that the image is used as simple background to the rhetoric."
-- Oksana Dykyj

Source:
Dykyj, Oksana. "Shameless Propaganda." Educational Media Reviews Online, May 6, 2015.