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Scope and Contents 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'...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents 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...

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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.

Scope and Contents 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...