Propaganda
Propaganda is used to publicize a particular political cause or point of view, usually biased or misleading in nature and wars especially inspire propaganda. Around the time of World War I, the Americanization movement was advertised in the hopes of spreading its ideas.
Before World War I, many people, like chairman of the National Americanization Day Committee believed that a failure to incorporate immigrants would leave the nation vulnerable to riots, strikes and anarchist movements. The National Americanization Day Committee hoped to use national patriotic holidays, like the 4th of July, as a way to unify the diverse immigrant population.
Much of the propaganda was spread through posters, like the one advocating for Americanization Day. Other posters used slogans and poems to draw people in, and most featured some sort of patriotic image like Uncle Sam or the American flag. Other posters were there to reassure immigrants that they are not out to destroy their culture, but rather just educate them.
The Making of an American (1920) was an educational video used in the Americanization movement to help assimilate immigrants. It was produced for th3e State of Connecticut Department of Americanization. The film is about a young Italian man who comes to America and is forced to take a position as a day laborer. He must learn the English language and through adverting finds a night class. After learning English, he can find a much better job and improve his way of life.
The film itself is 14 minutes long. Government reports state that the film was shown to more than 112,000 people in 1920 and copies were sold to other states interested in Americanization programs. It was targeted at industrial workers and was filmed in the Hartford Rubbers Works Company in Hartford, Connecticut.