In complete contrast to the silent era, American cinema of the Nazi epoch, 1933-45 saw the virtual disappearance of Jews from the screen,- that is Hollywood's output became cleansed of Jews. Typical of this transformation were two of the very few films of the period that could have had anti-semitism as their core. They were "The life of Emile Zola" and "Confessions of a Nazi spy", The few Jewish characters had their Jewish identity totally subjugated