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I can imagine a a subset of critics and audiences who would later bemoan the end of the Eisenstein Code because of the sort of films it incentivized, claiming that the 1930s-1960s were the golden age of American film as an art-form that has been in a state of decline ever since. They'd be wrong...

In light of the mention of organized crime leadership among the targets of the Red Terror in the most recent revision, I'm a bit curious about the state of the American gangster film genre ITTL's 1930s. It sounds as though the genre suffers under the harsher Breen Code. Even when the code is...

Maybe the British, Dutch, and French end up basically cooperating in improving the defenses and infrastructure for their colonies in the region, which in turn would come in handy once 1942 rolls around. I'm guessing these colonies would also be dealing with an influx of people fleeing from...

I'm a bit curious about what the British are doing in the Caribbean region (aside from sending the Royal Navy to block any potential invasion of Cuba of course) while the UASR and Mexico are spreading the revolution through Central America.

I agree. I'm just saying that the Vatican might not necessarily run into the same roadblocks to reconciliation in other Communist countries that they would in the UASR with the Trinitarians.

This gives the impression of the Trinitarians being largely limited to the UASR in the 30s and 40s. Perhaps this means some level of reconciliation between the Vatican and Catholics from elsewhere in the Comintern like in Latin America might be more feasible?

Maybe I ought to expand on the plot my previous contribution to this thread. A Dwain Esper film from TTL would seem like a good fit for this kind thing.

I wonder if Soviet animation would end up having more of an influence on comics and animation in the region compared to OTL.

I agree that two men are not comparable. The main similarity was the film's makers gaining permission to make use of locations in the UASR (probably during a period of detente) for a film about the life of the last President of the United States that gets a lot of awards attention. Not sure on...

It's funny, because a while back I started brainstorming a Western European biopic on Hoover called The Last President that would be TTL's equivalent to The Last Emperor but didn't get very far with it. Bava is a filmmaker who's incredibly influential but isn't exactly a household name (at least...

On a somewhat related note, I'm guessing that the flag flown in Cuba after MacArthur's takeover would be a 49 star version of the Stars and Stripes, with some people in the UASR flying earlier versions of the Stars and Stripes alongside the UASR's flag on holidays like July 4th.

That's a good point. Given how the 1937 strike ended violently and the different political situation in the US in the early 30s ITTL, it does seem like things could get ugly in Hershey, PA after MacArthur's coup.

I wonder what would happen with Hershey himself. He did have a second company town in Cuba, but he doesn't seem like the type who would flee to MacArthur's Cuba. It think the bigger question would be whether Psycho is still made by Hitchcock ITTL. A Psycho without Hitchcock at the helm might be...

One company I'm wondering about the fate of ITTL is Hershey's. While there was a strike in the 1930s that led to the company's workers unionizing, it seems like Milton Hershey was fairly progressive in a lot of ways.

Does he still play the same sort of role in Arthur's conception that he does in Geoffrey of Monmouth's version of the legend? If so, this among other things (like if he plays a significant role in Arthur's crowning) could pretty easily lead to scenes where Arthur fondly reminisces about the...

While I find the idea of Miyazaki ending up in the AFS sphere in during the post-war era interesting, having him remain in Japan for the reason Libertad suggested allows for a greater likelihood of him making an adaption of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books, since the reason Le Guin turned him...

The rough beginning of an idea I've had regarding exploitation films of the 30s: ____ The Amazons is a 1937 exploitation film written and directed by Dwain Esper and Hildagarde Stadie. A noteworthy example of American exploitation cinema of the 1930s, it depicts the “true exploits” of an Amazon...

On a somewhat related note, I wonder if, from the 80s onward, American and Canadian gridiron football retain their separate rules or if there are attempts to standardize them under one set of rules.

The South as well, given its popularity there in OTL. Maybe a regional league or two forms there from teams organized by former college players? Canadian football would also still be a thing ITTL, so post-1980 that would be another region of the UASR where gridiron football could be popular.

In OTL, she ended up in working Hollywood after a meeting with Louis B. Mayer which could be butterflied away here. The conservative Republican Mayer might not stick around in post Civil War Hollywood. Perhaps she makes it to Hollywood under different circumstances (and under a different name)...