"These old-stock Protestants championed a view of America where the white upper classes ruled and the immigrants knew their place. They produced racist films such as Birth of a Nation and The Klansman, which played on White America's fear of racial intermixing."
The narrator amusingly observed that Irving Berlin's contribution to quintessential tear-jerking Gentile classics, such as God Bless America, Easter Parade and White Christmas, were second to none. Closing the first part of the programme, Miss Wanamaker told us how early Hollywood promoted the black race:-
"These old-stock Protestants championed a view of America where the white upper classes ruled and the immigrants knew their place. They produced racist films such as Birth of a Nation and The Klansman, which played on White America's fear of racial intermixing."
The narrator amusingly
 observed that Irving Berlin's contribution to quintessential tear-jerking Gentile classics, such as God Bless America, Easter Parade and White Christmas, were second to none. Closing the first part of the programme, Miss Wanamaker told us how early Hollywood promoted the black race:-