FBI Confidential Files on Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry and FBI Surveillance Files on Hollywood on Microfilm
Collection Number: 6111 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
FBI Confidential Files on Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry and FBI Surveillance Files on Hollywood on Microfilm,
1938-1958
Collection Number:
6111 mf
Creator:
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Quantity:
15 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Records, microfilm.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Language:
Collection material in English
Names:
Leab, Daniel J.
Lester, Robert.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation-- Archives.
University Publications of America (Firm)
Subjects:
Motion picture industry--Political aspects--United States--History--Sources.
Communism--United States--1917---Sources.
Blacklisting of entertainers--United States--History--Sources.
Form and Genre Terms:
Records
Microfilm
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
FBI Confidential Files on Communist Activity in the Entertainment Industry and FBI Surveillance Files on Hollywood on Microfilm
#6111 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Reel 1 | |||
Reel 1 | Item 1 | 1942-1943 | |
September 1942-July 1943. 307 pp.: List of radical artists, writers, actors, and musicians; Communist influence in labor
unions; Harry Carlisle; Communist front organizations and activities; LATSE; films of a propaganda nature;
Mission to Moscow; writers' unions; establishment of American Legion Union Post [Cinema Post #561].
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Reel 1 | Item 2 | 1943-1944 | |
July 1943-April 1944. 228 pp.: Mission to Moscow; films of a propaganda nature; Warner Brothers Pictures; Cinema Post #561;
Northwest Section (Movie Industry), Los Angeles County Communist Party organization and membership list;
Screen Writers Guild; AFL and independent unions; history of Communist infiltration; Communist front organizations;
Hollywood Democratic Committee.
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Reel 1 | Item 3 | 1944 | |
April 1944 cont.-August 1944. 283 pp.: Propaganda in films; Motion Picture Labor Committee for Political Action; Northwest
Section (Movie Industry), Los Angeles County Communist Party organization and membership list; history of
Communist infiltration; Mikhail Kalatozov; Hollywood Writers Mobilization; League of American Writers; Communist and
Communist-front organizations' membership subdivided into producers, directors, writers, actors and actresses,
labor, and miscellaneous; Hollywood Democratic Committee; OWI activities; War Activities Committee-OWI film productions;
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals; Cinema Post #561.
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Reel 1 | Item 4 | 1944-1945 | |
October 1944-March 1945. 180 pp.: History of Communist Infiltration; Communist Political Association activities; Hollywood
Democratic Committee; AFL Political Action Committee activities; Cecil B. DeMille; Communist infiltration of
RKO Radio Pictures@CIO Political Action Committee; CSU; Hollywood Writers Mobilization; strike activities; Herbert
Sorrell.
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Reel 2 | |||
Reel 2 | Item 1 | 1945 | |
February 1945-June 1945. 89 pp.: Soviet request for 35mm film; The Master Race; propaganda in films; Hollywood Writers Mobilization;
Hollywood Democratic Committee; OWI activities; Council of Hollywood Guilds and Unions; strike
activities; Herbert Sorrell; Communist Political Association; Motion Picture Alliance; screen guilds; HICCASP; CSU.
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Reel 2 | Item 2 | 1945 | |
June 1945 cont. 86 pp.: Report on Soviet influence and propaganda efforts in Hollywood. @Volume 7. June 1945 cont.-September
1945. 101 pp.: HUAC investigations; Actors' Laboratory; Motion Picture Alliance; CSU-IATSE jurisdictional
strike; IATSE [AFL]; Hollywood Writers Mobilization; ICCASP; Warner Brothers Pictures studio riot; Herbert Sorrell.
@Volume 8. November 1945-May 1947. 270 pp.: CSU jurisdictional strikes; IATSE [AFL]; AFL strike call; Helen Gahagan
Douglas; American Youth for Democracy; Frank Sinatra; Herbert Sorrell; HUAC investigations; Tenney Committee investigations;
Hollywood Writers Mobilization; HICCASP; strike activities; International Film and Radio Guild; Pale
Robeson and the National Win-the-Peace Committee; Motion Picture Alliance; Communist political and election activities;
labor violence; PCA; International Labor Organization (ILO) support of CSU; People's Educational Center. @Volume
9. May 1947 cont.-August 1947. 127 pp. [Documents in this file are in reverse chronological order]: House Un-American
Activities Committee investigations; V.J. Jerome; Henry Wallace; CSU; name checks and Communist party members;
Eric Johnston and the Motion Picture Association; PCA, Hollywood Chapter; Motion Picture Alliance. @Volume 10. August
1947 cont. 252 pp.: Report on the history, prominent individuals, and organization of Communist infiltration.
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Reel 2 | Item 3 | 1945 | |
June 1945 cont.-September 1945. 101 pp.: HUAC investigations; Actors' Laboratory; Motion Picture Alliance; CSU- IATSE jurisdictional
strike; IATSE [AFL]; Hollywood Writers Mobilization; ICCASP; Warner Brothers Pictures studio riot;
Herbert Sorrell.
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Reel 2 | Item 4 | 1945-1947 | |
November 1945-May 1947. 270 pp.: CSU jurisdictional strikes; IATSE [AFL]; AFL strike call; Helen Gahagan Douglas; American
Youth for Democracy; Frank Sinatra; Herbert Sorrell; HUAC investigations; Tenney Committee investigations;
Hollywood Writers Mobilization; HICCASP; strike activities; International Film and Radio Guild; Pale Robeson and the
National Win-the-Peace Committee; Motion Picture Alliance; Communist political and election activities; labor
violence; PCA; International Labor Organization (ILO) support of CSU; People's Educational Center.
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Reel 2 | Item 5 | 1947 | |
May 1947 cont.-August 1947. 127 pp. [Documents in this file are in reverse chronological order]: House Un-American Activities
Committee investigations; V.J. Jerome; Henry Wallace; CSU; name checks and Communist party members; Eric
Johnston and the Motion Picture Association; PCA, Hollywood Chapter; Motion Picture Alliance.
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Reel 2 | Item 6 | 1947 | |
August 1947 cont. 252 pp.: Report on the history, prominent individuals, and organization of Communist infiltration.
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Reel 3 | |||
Reel 3 | Item 1 | 1947 | |
August 1947 cont.-October 1947. 271 pp.: Communist propaganda pamphlet Is Communism Un-American?; Communist industrial recruiting;
Industrial Subsection, Hollywood Section, Los Angeles Communist Party; trials of studio strikers; The
American Crime; name checks; CSU; strikes; HUAC investigations; propaganda in films; FBI policy on previewing films
for propaganda content; Ronald Reagan; Eric Johnston and the Motion Picture Association; Gary Cooper.
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Reel 3 | Item 2 | 1947 | |
October 1947 cont.-November 1947. 186 pp.: History of infiltration; name checks for HUAC; HUAC Washington hearings; Charles
Chaplin; Senator Claude Pepper; surveillance of and informant reports on Hollywood persons involved in the
HUAC hearings; John Garfield; Communist efforts to thwart HUAC investigations; FBI previewing of films for propaganda
content; John Garfield; Paul Draper; All My Sons; Arthur Miller; PCA activities opposing the HUAC hearings; Louis
B. Mayer.
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Reel 3 | Item 3 | 1947 | |
November 1947 cont. 93 pp.: Efforts to defend subpoenaed "Unfriendly 19"; surveillance of and informant reports on Hollywood
persons involved in the HUAC hearings; Edward G. Robinson; testimony before HUAC; Martin Popper.
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Reel 3 | Item 4 | 1947 | |
November 1947 cont. 111 pp.: HUAC Washington hearings and "Unfriendly 19;" National Lawyers Guild; Tenney Committee hearings;
Communist influence in New York motion picture industry; Bartley S. Crum; surveillance of and informant
reports on Hollywood persons involved in the HUAC hearings; Martin Popper; Screen Writers Guild.
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Reel 3 | Item 5 | 1947-1948 | |
October 1947-January 1948. 320 pp.: Committee for the First Amendment; efforts to support subpoenaed "Unfriendly 19"; surveillance
of and informant reports on Hollywood persons involved in the HUAC hearings; Ira Gershwins; Max
Lowenthal; Martin Popper and National Lawyers Guild activities; Bartley C. Crum; Eric Johnston; John Garfield; wiretaps;
American Writers Association; PCA; Hollywood "purge"; reactions to the HUAC hearings; indictment of Hollywood
"10"; International Motion Picture Committee.
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Reel 4 | |||
Reel 4 | Item 1 | 1947-1948 | |
December 1947-May 1948. 296 pp.: People's Educational Center; PCA; screen guilds; Eric Johnston and Motion Picture Producers
Committee; FBI previewing of alleged propaganda films; microphone surveillance of Benjamin Margolis; Motion
Picture Association; "Hollywood 10"; Actors' Laboratory; Committee of 1000; Lynn [Lin] Root; New York theater investigations;
Freedom From Fear Committee; labor situation in Hollywood; Senator Claude Peppers; Screen Writers Guild;
Martin Popper; Thieves' Paradise; Motion Picture Alliance; Civil Rights Congress.
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Reel 4 | Item 2 | 1948-1949 | |
May 1948 cont.-January 1949. 246 pp.: Review of book Hollywood on Trial; Abe Polonsky; wiretaps; Motion Picture Association;
Hollywood Section, Los Angeles Communist Party, reorganization; Hollywood ASP and Conference for Peace;
screen guilds; Sid Benson; Screen Writers Guild; "Hollywood 10"; Dore Schary; French motion picture industry; National
Americanism Commission of the American Legion; RKO Radio Pictures studios; Myron C. Fagan; Cinema Educational
Guild; Lester Cole lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); John Howard Lawson; Civil Rights Congress.
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Reel 4 | Item 3 | 1949 | |
January 1949 cont.-September 1949. 192 pp.: Cinema Educational Guild; "Hollywood 10" activities; activities calling for abolition
of HUAC; Anti-Censorship Committee; Conference on Cultural Freedom and Civil Liberties; New York City
ASP; social democracy and the theater; Communist infiltration of New York theater; Lester Cole lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(MGM); Motion Picture Alliance; Western Peace Conference; Hollywood ASP; Civil Rights Congress;
Communist infiltration in the radio industry; John Howard Lawson; Dalton Trumbo; FBI reviews of films for propaganda
content.
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Reel 4 | Item 4 | 1949-1950 | |
September 1949 cont.-January 1950. 184 pp.: "Hollywood 10" activities; John Howard Lawson; Dalton Trumbo; Cinema Educational
Guild; Myron C. Fagan; Hollywood ASP; Continental Congress for World Peace; screen guilds; Civil Rights
Congress; Lester Cole; Communist infiltration of the radio-television industry; New York City ASP.
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Reel 4 | Item 5 | 1950 | |
January 1950 cont.-April 1950. 145 pp.: Los Angeles County Communist Party; National ASP; Hollywood ASP; "Hollywood 10" activities;
screen guilds; Cinema Educational Guild; Myron C. Fagan; FBI reviews of motion pictures; Cultural and
Scientific Conference for World Peace; Communist cultural activities; John Howard Lawson; Communist infiltration of
legitimate theater; Actors Equity Association; Clifford Odets; Paul Draper; Hollywood ASP on hydrogen bomb issue;
American-Soviet Friendship Committee; Screen Writers Guild.
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Reel 5 | |||
Reel 5 | Item 1 | 1950 | |
April 1950 cont.-June 1950. 79 pp.: "Hollywood 10" activities; "US Supreme Court and Hollywood 10"; Hollywood ASP on political
issues; Herbert Biberman; Rockwell Kent; Cinema Educational Guild; Myron C. Fagan.
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Reel 5 | Item 2 | 1950 | |
June 1950 cont. 58 pp.: Communist infiltration of legitimate theater; People's Drama, Inc.@ Little Theater Groups; Gene Kelly;
lists of suspected and Communist theatrical personnel.
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Reel 5 | Item 3 | 1950 | |
June 1950 cont.-September 1950. 125 pp.: "Hollywood 10" activities; Hollywood ASP support of "Hollywood 10;" Herbert K. Sorrell;
Screen Writers Guild; Committee for the "Hollywood 10"; Drew Pearson allegations regarding Louis B.
Mayer and cancellation of HUAC hearings on Hollywood in 1945-1946; National ASP support of "Hollywood 10"; reorganization
of Los Angeles County Communist Party apparatus.
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Reel 5 | Item 4 | 1950 | |
August 1950-September 1950. 152 pp.: History of Communist infiltration; John Howard Lawson; list of suspected and Communist
motion picture industry personnel; Louis B. Mayer; Harry M. Warner; Korean War issue; Hollywood ASP; Screen
Directors Guild; Screen Writers Guild; Motion Picture Alliance; 1947 HUAC hearings; "Hollywood 10" activities.
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Reel 5 | Item 5 | 1950 | |
September 1950 cont.-November 1950. 152 pp.: "Hollywood 10" activities; Cinema Educational Guild and Myron C. Fagan; Hollywood
ASP activities; Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born; Committee to Free the "Hollywood 10"
activities; Dore Schary; Screen Directors Guild.
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Reel 5 | Item 6 | 1950 | |
November 1950 cont. 58 pp.: Cultural Commission, Communisty Party, USA; labor unions; Actors Equity Association; Committee
for the Negro in the Arts; People's Drama, Inc.@ FBI reviews of motion pictures; "Hollywood 10" activities;
international motion picture affairs.
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Reel 5 | Item 7 | 1950-1951 | |
November 1950 cont.-February 1951. 197 pp.: "Hollywood 10" activities; Cinema Educational Guild; labor unions; Communist front
intellectual and entertainment groups; Committee to Free "Hollywood 10" activities; Hollywood ASP
activities; Motion Picture Industry Council; screen guilds; anti-Communist activities in Hollywood; Korean War issue;
Dore Schary; New Playwrights, Inc. People's Drama, Inc.@ An Enemy of the People; Edward Dmytryk; Los Angeles
Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born; FBI reviews of motion pictures.
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Reel 5 | Item 8 | 1951 | |
February 1951 cont.-April 1951. 200 pp.: HUAC investigations and hearings; National ASP; Hollywood ASP protest activities;
Herbert Biberman; Communist front intellectual and entertainment groups; Gale A. Sondergaard; Motion Picture
Alliance and John Wayne; Cinema Educational Guild; CSU; Herbert K. Sorrell; Edward Dmytryk; Screen Writers Guild.
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Reel 6 | |||
Reel 6 | Item 1 | 1951 | |
April 1951 cont.-June 1951. 218 pp.: HUAC investigations and herings; Meta Reis Rosenberg; Los Angeles County Communist Party
membership; Cinema Educational Guild; National ASP's anti-HUAC activities; Motion Picture Alliance;
American Guild of Variety Artists; informant reports; Hollywood Communists in Mexico; Myron C. Fagan. Volume 30. June
1951 cont. 56 pp.: Labor unions; National ASP activities; American Federation of Musicians, Local 802; Communist
front intellectual and enteratinment groups; American National Theater and Academy; Huac investigations and hearings;
Union Films.
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Reel 6 | Item 2 | 1951 | |
June 1951 cont.-September 1951. 155 pp.: HUAC investigations and hearings; Hollywood ASP; Steve Nelson Case and the Civil
Rights Congress; Herbert Biberman; John Howard Lawson; Korean War issue.
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Reel 6 | Item 3 | 1951-1952 | |
September 1951 cont.-March 1952. 183 pp.: National Americanism Commission of the American Legion; list of motion pictures
containing Communist or "fellow traveler" motion picture personnel; HUAC hearings; John Howard Lawson;
Hollywood ASP activities; Negro motion picture actors and actresses; Screen Writers Guild; Screen Actors Guild; Motion
Picture Alliance; American Legion support of anti-Communist activities in Hollywood; Hollywood Communist Party
organization [John Reed Division] membership; HUAC Los Angeles Hearings witness list; Citizens Committee to Preserve
American Freedoms.
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Reel 6 | Item 4 | 1952 | |
March 1952 cont.-July 1952. 155 pp.: HUAC Los Angeles investigations and heraings; witness lists; anti-HUAC activities; Citizens
Committee to Preserve American Freedoms; American Legion support of anti-Communist activities; Motion
Picture Association; Paul Jarrico-RKO Radio Pictures dispute; Communist infiltration of New York theater and radio
groups; Hollywood ASP activities; National Lawyers Guild, Beverly Hills Chapter; Edward G. Robinson; Hollywood ASP
Equal Rights Conference for Negroes; Freedom Stage, Inc.
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Reel 7 | |||
Reel 7 | Item 1 | 1952 | |
June 1952-August 1952. 19 pp.: Judy Holliday; Hollywood ASP activities; Hollywood chapter, Civil Rights Congress, activities.
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Reel 7 | Item 2 | 1952-1953 | |
August 1952 cont.-January 1953. 115 pp.: HUAC Los Angeles hearings; Hollywood ASP protest activities; Communist infiltration
of radio-television industry; interrelation of Communist cultural activities between Los Angeles and New
York City; National ASP on Korean War; Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case; Motion Picture
Industry Council support of HUAC; Champions of the Bill of Rights; Citizens Committee to Preserve American
Freedoms.
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Reel 7 | Item 3 | 1953 | |
January 1953 cont.-December 1953. 159 pp.: American Legion anti-Communist activities; HUAC Los Angeles hearings; Screen Actors
Guild; witness lists; Hollywood ASP activities; law suits against motion picture industry; Independent
Productions Corporation; The Salt of the Earth; Actor's Equity Association; labor unions; National ASP; congressional
investigations in entertainment industry; John Howard Lawson; Lucille Ball.
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Reel 7 | Item 4 | 1953-1955 | |
December 1953 cont.-March 1955. 240 pp.: Hollywood ASP activities; The Salt of the Earth; labor unions; Martin Berkeley; New
York ASP; Herbert Biberman; John Howard Lawson; labor situation; Citizens Committee to Perserve American
Freedoms; activities of Nwe York City FBI office; Motion Picture Alliance; gray lists issue; informant activities;
Communist infiltration of radio-television industry; National ASP; reorganization of Los Angeles Communist Party's
Cultural Division; Writers Guild of America; Barry Storm; The General Died at Dawn.
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Reel 7 | Item 5 | 1955 | |
March 1955 cont.-December 1955. 152 pp.: Los Angeles Communist Party organization; Writers Guild of America; studio craft
unions and screen guilds; Hollywood ASP activities; Fund for the Republic activities; New York ASP activities;
The Salt of the Earth; Communist film reviews; list of Communists in motion picture industry; labor-studeio contract
negotiations; American Legion list of Communists in motion picture industry; IATSE; HUAC hearings; Association of
Motion Picture Producers, Inc.@ Communist ghost writer allegations; Motion Picture Alliance; American Federation of
Television and Radio Artists, AFL; HUAC hearings on Communist infiltration in the New York theater and
radio-television industries.
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Reel 7 | Item 6 | 1956-1958 | |
January 1956-November 1958. 197 pp.: John Cromwell; Los Angeles Communist Party, Cultural Division membership; Citizens Committee
to Preserve American Freedoms; Musicians Committee for Cultural Freedom; Hollywood ASP activities; HUAC
hearings; Independent Productions Corporation; American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, AFL; HUAC hearings
on Communist infiltration in the New York theater and radio-television industries; Fund for the Republic
activities; Marilyn Monroe; Storm Center; King Brothers, Inc. cover up of Communist script writers; John Howard Lawson;
blacklisting issue; Arts and Research Foundation; activities of the "Hollywood 10"
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Reel 8 | |||
Reel 8 | Item 1 | 1943-1944 | |
January 1943-February 1944. 118 pp.: Labor union activities; Mission to Moscow; Press reviews of films; David Platt's "Film
Front" column--commentaries and reviews [from Daily Worker]; Motion Picture Alliance; Charles Chaplin.
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Reel 8 | Item 2 | 1944 | |
March 1944-December 1944. 103 pp.: David Platt's "Film Front" column--commentaries and reviews [from Daily Worker]; The Negro
Soldier; labor union activities; Hollywood Democratic Committee; Seventh Cross; Motion Picture Alliance;
Screen Writers Guild; Hollywood Writers Mobilization.
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Reel 8 | Item 3 | 1945 | |
January 1945-May 1945. 102 pp.: David Platt's "Film Front" column--commentaries and reviews [from Daily Worker]; Screen Actors
Guild; Uncle Remus; postwar educational film production; Soviet films; CSU-IATSE jurisdictional strike;
labor violence.
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Reel 8 | Item 4 | 1945 | |
June 1945-December 1945. 65 pp.: David Platt's column--commentaries and reviews [from Daily Worker]; proposed HUAC investigations
of motion picture industry; Motion Picture Alliance; Cecil B. DeMille; Herbert K. Sorrell and CSU
strike activities; religious and racial intolerance in motion picture industry.
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Reel 8 | Item 5 | 1946 | |
January 1946-December 1946. 47 pp.: David Platt's column--commentaries and revews [from Daily Worker]@United Productions;
screen guilds; labor-studios wage negotiations; HUAC investigations.
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Reel 8 | Item 6 | 1947 | |
January 1947-June 1947. 102 pp.: David Platt's column--commentaries and reviews [from Daily Worker]; foreign film reviews;
HUAC investigations and hearings; anti-Soviet films; Robert Taylor and the Song of Russias; Adolphe Menjou;
Eric Johnston; Screen Writers Guild.
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Reel 8 | Item 7 | 1947 | |
July 1947-October 1947. 117 pp.: HUAC hearings; House Labor Subcommittee investigations of unions; labor strife; Los Angeles
"Town Meeting of the Air" [radio discussion program]; Charles Chaplin; Hanns Eisler; PCA anti-HUAC
activities; "Unfriendly 19"; Jack L. Warner.
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Reel 8 | Item 8 | 1947 | |
October 1947 cont. 117 pp.: Robert Taylor and Song of Russia; HUAC hearings; John Howard Lawson; Adolph Menjou; John Weber
espionage investigation and Chalmers "Slick" Goodlin; Rupert Hughes; Paul V. McNutt; Committee for the First
Amendment.
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Reel 8 | Item 9 | 1947 | |
October 1947 cont. 113 pp.: Reactions to HUAC hearings; HUAC hearings; Humphrey Bogart; Paul V. McNutt and the Motion Picture
Producers Association; Eric Johnston; Senator Claude Pepper; Walt Disney; "Unfriendly 19"; Committee for
the First Amendment.
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Reel 9 | |||
Reel 9 | Item 1 | 1947 | |
October 1947 cont. 102 pp.: Reaction to HUAC hearings; HUAC hearings; John Howard Lawson; Eric Johnston; Dalton Trumbo; labor
strikes; Roy M. Brewer; Lauren Bacall.
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Reel 9 | Item 2 | 1947 | |
October 1947 cont. 81 pp.: HUAC hearings; reaction to HUAC hearings; atomic bomb spies and alleged Hollywood Communists; Emmett
Lavery.
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Reel 9 | Item 3 | 1947 | |
November 1947. 98 pp.: Reaction to HUAC hearings; "Hollywood 10" contempt hearings; Committee for the First Amendment; Lauren
Bacall; Screen Writers Guild; House Speaker Joseph W. Martin.
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Reel 9 | Item 4 | 1947 | |
November 1947 cont. 112 pp.: Reaction to HUAC hearings; RKO Radio Pictures; blacklisting allegations; Scren Actors Guild's
anti-Communist policy; Eric Johnston; Twentieth Century-Fox; "Hollywood 10"; Louis B. Mayer.
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Reel 9 | Item 5 | 1947 | |
November 1947 cont.-December 1947. 92 pp.: Blacklisting of "Hollywood 10"; blacklisting of alleged Communists; The Iron Curtain;
Hollywood AFL Film Council; screen guilds' anti-Communist policies; Humphrey Bogart; "Hollywood 10"
activities; Eric Johnston.
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Reel 9 | Item 6 | 1948 | |
January 1948-February 1948. 88 pp.: "Hollywood 10" hearings; "Hollywood 10" law suits against studios; Screen Actors Guild's
non-Communist oath policy; Tenney Committee [California Senate Un-American Activities Committees] hearings;
Eric Johnston; Edward Dmytryck; House Labor Subcommittee investigations of IATSE-CSU jurisdictional strike; Hungarian
ban on US films.
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Reel 9 | Item 7 | 1948 | |
March 1948-May 1948. 143 pp.: "Hollywood 10" law suits against studios; legal defense of "Hollywood 10"; blacklisting issue;
international film community's response to Hollywood "inquisition"; anti-Communist films; John Howard
Lawson; "Hollywood 10" contempt trials; Dalton Trumbo; protests against The Iron Curtain.
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Reel 9 | Item 8 | 1948 | |
May 1948-September 1948. 79 pp.: The Iron Curtain; "Hollywood 10" contempt trials; anti-trust suit against studios on issue
of blacklisting; Screen Writers Guild; press on anti-communism and the motion picture industry.
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Reel 9 | Item 9 | 1948-1949 | |
October 1948-March 1949. 87 pp.: HUAC Hollywood hearings; anti-trust suit against studios on issue of blacklisting; Screen
Writers Guild; "Hollywood 10" activities; blacklist issue; John Howard Lawson; "red-baiting" films and plays;
labor disputes; "Hollywood 10" law suits against studios; Walk a Crooked Mile; Eric Johnston; anti-Semitism and racial
intolerance in motion picture industry.
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Reel 10 | |||
Reel 10 | Item 1 | 1949 | |
April 1949-June 1949. 94 pp.: Anti-Communist films; Dalton Trumbo; Screen Writers Guild; racism and Home of the Brave; "Hollywood
10" anti-trust law suit against the studios; Red Menace; "Hollywood 10" activities; Albert Maltz and
book The Journey of Simon McKeever.
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Reel 10 | Item 2 | 1949-1950 | |
July 1949-March 1950. 131 pp.: Anti-Communist films; Ayn Rand; racist films issue; "Hollywood Beat" column and David Platt
column [motion picture and industry commentaries]; protest support for "Hollywood 10"; CSU activities; strike
activities; "Hollywood 10" activities; Negro stereotype in films; Roberto Rossellini.
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Reel 10 | Item 3 | 1950 | |
April 1950-June 1950. 89 pp.: John Howard Larson; Dalton Trumbo; New York City's Deadline for Freedom Rallies in support of
"Hollywood 10"; "Hollywood 10" activities; US Supreme Court decision on "Hollywood 10" appeal; David Platt
column [motion picture and industry commentaries]; appeal for re-hearing of "Hollywood 10"; international support of
"Hollywood 10"; appeal to United Nations on behalf of "Hollywood 10"; blacklist issue.
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Reel 10 | Item 4 | 1950 | |
July 1950-December 1950. 76 pp.: "Hollywood 10" activities; international support of "Hollywood 10"; Harry M. Warner on Communist
infiltration; Motion Picture Alliance; public support for "Hollywood 10"; David Platt column [motion
picture and industry commentaries].
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Reel 10 | Item 5 | 1951 | |
January 1951-May 1951. 144 pp.: David Platt column [motion picture and industry commentaries]; HUAC hearings; V.J. Jerome;
Gale A. Sondergaard; Motion Picture Alliance; Larry Parks; Actors Equity Association; I Was A Communist For
The FBI; Roy M. Brewer; David Platt column [motion picture and industry commentaries].
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Reel 10 | Item 6 | 1951-1952 | |
June 1951-February 1952. 94 pp.: HUAC hearings; Ronald Reagan; Martin Berkeley; Hollywood ASP activities; blacklisting issue;
Sidney Buchman.
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Reel 10 | Item 7 | 1952-1953 | |
March 1952-March 1953. 125 pp.: "Hollywood 10" law suit against studios; American Legion support of anti-Communist activities;
Paul Jarrico; blacklisting issue; RKO Radio Pictures; Edward G. Robinson; Clifford Odets; Ronald Reagan;
HUAC hearings; Charles Chaplin; The Salt of the Earth; lawsuits against studios alleging blacklisting; Libby Burke.
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Reel 10 | Item 8 | 1953-1955 | |
April 1953-March 1955. 118 pp.: HUAC hearings; Screen Actors Guild; television industry; Actors Equity Association; Edward
Dmytryk; David Platt column [motion picture and industry commentaries]; The Salt of the Earth; Roy M. Brewer;
reviews of Soviet and other foreign films.
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Reel 10 | Item 9 | 1955-1958 | |
April 1955-December 1958. 63 pp.: David Platt column [motion picture and industry commentaries]; Blackboard Jungle; The Salt
of the Earth; Arthur Miller; lawsuits against studios alleging blacklisting; "Hollywood 10" activities.
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Reel 11 | |||
Reel 11 | Item 1 | 1938-1940 | |
29 pp. League of American Writers; IATSE convention proceedings
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Reel 11 | Item 2 | 1947 | |
27 pp. List of Communist party members employed in the motion picture industry, June 11, 1947.
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Reel 11 | Item 3 | 1947 | |
317 pp. Report entitled Communist Infiltration of Motion Picture Industry, Up to Date as of May 24, 1947.
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Reel 11 | Item 4 | 1940 | |
34 pp. IATSE convention proceedings, 1940; The Daily Worker articles on film as propaganda.
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Reel 11 | Item 5 | ||
11 pp. Statement on motion picture industry and congressional investigations.
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Reel 11 | Item 6 | 1947 | |
71 pp. July 8, 1947 report entitled Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry.
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Reel 11 | Item 7 | 1947 | |
357 pp. Biographical sketches, highlighting Communist "connections" of witnesses appearing before HUAC in 1947.
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Reel 11 | Item 8 | 1947 | |
205 pp. Report entitled Summary on the Communist Infiltration into the Motion Picture Industry, October 2, 1947.
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Reel 11 | Item 9 | ||
16 pp. Hollywood Reporter and Variety articles regarding reaction to HUAC investigations; Hollywood ASP flyer.
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Reel 12 | |||
Reel 12 | Item 1 | 1947 | |
279 pp.: HUAC hearings transcripts, October 20-24 and 28-30, 1947.
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Reel 12 | Item 2 | ||
25 pp.: Myron C. Fagan on Thieves' Paradise.
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Reel 12 | Item 3 | ||
5 pp.: Title page and Foreword of Gordon Kahn's book entitled Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the 10 Who Were Indicted.
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Reel 12 | Item 4 | 1948 | |
21 pp.: Transcripts of Abe Polonsky's telephone conversations of March 20, 1948.
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Reel 12 | Item 5 | ||
45 pp.: Myron C. Fagan.
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Reel 12 | Item 6 | ||
33 pp.: Investigation of the New York theater industry; New Theatre League.
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Reel 12 | Item 7 | ||
29 pp.: Cinema Educational Guild theater play entitled Mr. X.
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Reel 12 | Item 8 | ||
30 pp.: Myron C. Fagan; Catholic Stage Guild in Ireland; Gregory Peck.
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Reel 12 | Item 9 | ||
6 pp.: Title page from Myron C. Fagan's book entitled Red Treason in Hollywood.
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Reel 12 | Item 10 | ||
80 pp.: Amici curiae brief in Lawson v. U.S. and Trumbo v. U.S.@ Dalton Trumbo's pamhplet on the "Hollywood 10" entitled The
Time of the Toad.
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Reel 13 | |||
Reel 13 | Item 1 | ||
67 pp.: Public correspondence with US Supreme Court regarding the Eugene Dennis Contempt Case and "Hollywood 10".
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Reel 13 | Item 2 | ||
45 pp.: Script of The Troubled Air.
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Reel 13 | Item 3 | 1951 | |
221 pp.: HUAC hearing transcripts, May 16-18, 1951; Roy M. Brewer testimony.
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Reel 13 | Item 4 | ||
20 pp.: Press articles on the alleged Communist infiltration of Hollywood.
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Reel 13 | Item 5 | 1951 | |
128 pp.: HUAC hearing transcripts, May 24, 1951 and April 24, 1951.
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Reel 13 | Item 6 | 1951 | |
113 pp.: HUAC hearings transcripts, April 25, 1951; Edward Dmytryk.
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Reel 13 | Item 7 | 1949 | |
583 pp.: Report entitled Summary on the Communist Infiltration Into the Motion Picture Industry, July 15, 1949.
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Reel 14 | Item 1 | 1952 | |
51 pp.: HUAC hearings transcripts, November 12-13, 1952.
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Reel 14 | Item 2 | 1953 | |
422 pp.: HUAC hearings transcripts, March 26-28, 30-31, and April 7-8, 1953.
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Reel 14 | Item 3 | ||
99 pp.: Cinema Educational Guild pamphlet encompassing Myron C. Fagan's article entitled Red Treason on Broadway; Lucille
Ball.
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Reel 14 | Item 4 | 1955 | |
523 pp.: Report entitled Summary on the Communist into the Motion Picture Industry (Up to Date as of December 31, 1955).
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Reel 14 | Item 5 | 1948-1958 | |
26 pp.: Synopses of Communist infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry by D.M. Ladd for J. Edgar Hoover; Michael Seymour
Blankfort.
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Reel 14 | Item 6 | 1943-1947 | |
40 pp.: OWI review of script for Secret Service in Darkest Africa; Office of Censorship cable intercepts from USSR to the
American Cinematographer in Hollywood.
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