Reel 3

Scope and Contents

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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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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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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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.

Scope and Contents 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...