The First American Anti-Nazi Film, Rediscovered : The New Yorker: "However, George Canty, the Berlin-based trade commissioner for the U.S. Department of Commerce, got wind of protests against the film by the German Ambassador in Washington, and concluded that “the film serves no good purpose.” Across the country, censors took Canty’s view, and the film was denied a license, banned, and cut by New York City and State censor boards. In Chicago, the film passed the censors but was stopped when the city’s Nazi consul insisted that the footage was fake. Vanderbilt went back to Europe to try to update the film but, however good his intentions, he’d produced a flop. Never picked up by a major studio, the orphan “Reign” all but vanished—until now."
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