Get your flags and your bibles, we’re hunting Communists. The Red Menace could be lurking anywhere: in your unions, in your movies, maybe even in the very halls of Congress.
Featured image: Nine of the ten people charged for contempt of Congress. (Image source)
A photograph of a protest against the jailing of the Hollywood Ten. (Image source)
An absolutely buckwild front page from October 21, 1947. What’s the deal with the human vampire? (Image source)
A poster for one of the pro-Russian films produced during the war. (Image source)
A poster from the 1960s implying that miscegenation, Judaism, and Communism are connected. (Image source)
An anti-communist film. Fuck your communist telephones.
Sources
- Firing Actors for Being Conservative Is Another Hollywood Blacklist
- Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical
- Hollywood Ten Trials: 1948-50
- Trumbo statement
- Repression in Hollywood: Remembering the Hollywood Ten
- Walt Disney, Ronald Reagan and the Fear of Hollywood Communism
- The HUAC testimony of Ayn Rand
- “We Must Keep the Labor Unions Clean”: “Friendly” HUAC Witnesses Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney Blame Hollywood Labor Conflicts on Communist Infiltration
- The Hollywood Reporter, After 65 Years, Addresses Role in Blacklist
- A Great Historic Mistake: The Making of “Mission to Moscow”
- Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten