Films.

Films was seen more as a means of relaxation than directly for explicit propaganda purposes. 

The number of flimgoers quadrupled between 1933 and 1942. The state over time increasing got control over both film companies and the content of films. The government left 4 major film companies to stay private because they didn't want to effect or harm the amount of export sales. However, the RMVP gradually brought up shares, and increasingly financed films, so indrectly comapnies became state owned. In 1942 all were nationalised under Ufi (Ufa Film GmbH)

Several American films were banned in Germany. 

Goebbels personally looked over each film broadcasting in Germany to see it was fit for German citizens to watch. For example if it was 'politically and artistically valuable', 'culturally valuable', a 'film of the nation', 'valuable for youth' - and given money accordingly. During the Nazi regime over one thousand feature films were produced. With one-sixth bein overtly propagandist. 

Leni Riefenstahl a producer was in charge of get detailed recording rallies and festivals, to tell/explain to people what's happening. Her most famous films were 'Triumph of the Will' about the Nuremberg Rally and 'Olympia' about the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Films were probably more effective in keeping support for the regime than in indoctrinating people with Nazism. The need for entertainment took priority. 

Press.

The Nazi's had three main methods of control over the press:

Firstly, it controlled all of these involvements in press - journalist, editors, publishers - through compulsory membership of co-ordinating bodies. The Reich Press Chamber included the Reich Assoication of the German Press which kept a reigister of acceptable editors and journalists. A law created in October 1933 made editors respsonible for infrigements of government directives. Thus meaning that anything published against the government were removed, so everything publised in newspapers about the government were positive. 

Secondly, the RMVP controlled the content of the press through the state-controlled Press Agaency which provided roughly half of te content of the newspapers. The RMVP helded daily press conferences and issued detailed directives on content, including the length and position of articles. 

Lastly, control was exercised by by extending Nazi ownership of the press. The Nazi Party's publishing house, Ether Verlag, gradually took over, directly or indrectly, most of the press. Thus Nazi ownership of the media grew from 5% (of circulation) in 1933 to 69% in 1939 and to 82% in 1944.