World War Two
In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Mellett to head the Office of Government Reports, checking newspapers, polling the public and maintaining information officers throughout the country.
In 1942 this became the Office of War Information's Bureau of Motion Pictures (BMP). FDR, in appointing Mellet to head the BMP, wrote “The American motion picture is one of the most effective mediums in informing and entertaining our citizens. The motion picture must remain free in so far as national security will permit. I want no censorship of the motion picture.” The BMP's most successful project was Why We Fight.
After the war, Lowell continued in journalism and published a number of books. He died in April 1960.
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