new york – The central request in 1947, as a result of the entire entire mensed allegate genuary inexpensive activity Hollywoodwas: “I am a member of the Communist Party?”
Bred by Republicload Rep. John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, the committee brought to a Blacklist Hollywood, now the focus of a New shows To the historic of New York.
“The monster of the hollywood story,” Louise of New York City of the New York, DELIVERY CBS, of a group of 10 Hollywood writes. “And the charge was for the Hollywood, what did Films spouse the communist point of view.
Hollywood tense refused to answer the committee’s questions. They were holding in the Congring, any convict since any place between six months a year, and black exciting.
“And pt a huge effect, if” Anne Lessy, who helped the Exhibit The Exhibit The Exhits of the Blind of the Blacklist. “If you want to be a part of the film industry, you are losing your privacy and your right to your own political ideas and affiliations.”
The Dalton’s Dalton Score, one of the Hollywood tuna, have spent 10 months in prison. Her daughter, mits, he was 5 years old. Their drawings and letters to him are on the display in the exposure, and also witnessed by those who calls suspended communists.
“In an effort to save yourself, their careers and reputations, numb, you know, creents borrowed to nouns, which is what you would like to say.
Even Walt Disney has famous testing before the committee.
“Walt disney to organization of the work organization had been made in their studies and hit the communist,” lessy said. “And then you’ve got reagan ronald, which to time, it was president of the screening players. And he went to the imitate item investigator. The committee.
The hillistical black After expanding To include the Pianist Relott Scott, the first black animator to have a TV show of the synication. But the show has been canceled after she was called in an anti-communist mamphel.
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“Then he took about four decades … for the academy prizes to finally recognize Dalton Trumbo,” Lessy said. “And … this was seen as early as eroding of the boget of comitis.”
The impact of the red rock has extended even besides Hollywood.
“A regular Americans have been caught in this anticipunian degree, the members of the ladies of the work, high school teachers,” Lessy said. “Professors Culili. There were a publication well interactions that they would be very detected in a wide creents. And so also is only your interrete in a wide thing that appears in one of these postings was fairly chatting.”
From the 1960s, as the red sharp had disappearing, so also the power of the Blacklist. And in 1975, American activity committee has been abolished.
“I think (the Blacklist Hollywood) increase the important questions about how to protect a sturdy democracy,” Lessy said. “How do you protect our rights and freedom, particularly freedom to talk … if held an unpopular view, should be punished? You’re all your questions?