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| | Marching Toward War: Time Marches—On Film! |
 | | By the time a film version of The March of Time was released, five major newsreels existed and were seen weekly by at least 40 million people in America, 200 million worldwide. |
 | | March of Time also created feature films, including the 1940 The Ramparts We Watch, which sought to define the burgeoning World War II in terms of the last World War—Americans had to step up and fight to preserve their values, the film argued. |
 | | March of Time films concentrated more heavily on international news than the radio show, but the films were also interested in American politics, the arts, crime, public safety and social issues (such as safe driving, sharecropping, cancer), and the Depression (in particular its effects on businesses). |
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