Still , wartime is not an occasion for changing race or class relations in the South . 9
Even further afield from mainstream American wartime society were the Mennonite and Amish farmers of south central Pennsylvania . A Mennonite farmer , Moses Zimmerman , is featured in Farmer at War , released in March 1943 . This nine-minute film was produced by Columbia Pictures Corporation and the US Office of War Information , and distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Association . With Farmer at War , the OWI and Columbia Pictures created a film that appeared to combine aspects of both the entertainment and “ documentary ” genres , with far more emphasis on reassurance than sacrifice . The film begins with images showing the deep rootedness of Germanic citizens of the county , such as gravestones engraved in the German language from the Ephrata community in northern Lancaster County and a rural German Lutheran church building . The film shows the inscription on a Revolutionary War monument in Ephrata , a German communal society . The cornerstone was laid in 1845 on the anniversary of the Battle of Brandywine , after which some 500 wounded soldiers from Washington ’ s defeated army were tended in Ephrata cloister buildings , and the monument was finally dedicated in 1902 . It was estimated that approximately 150 of the soldiers died of their wounds and an outbreak of typhus . The inscription reads :
More than a century the remains of these patriots rested in this hallowed spot without any commemoration except the following words on a 9
In the introduction to We ’ ll Always Have the Movies , the authors observe that the African-American piano player Sam disappears during the crucial “ Marseillaise ” scene in Casablanca .
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