VM100 Lecture 30: Hollywood Blacklist
29 Nov 2016
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Blacklist: illegal attempt to deny employment based on political beliefs/affiliations. 1947: hearing ( ) by huac(house un-american activities committee) 19 unfriendly witness and the hollywood ten (testified by committee) Assume chinese as enemy because they believed that they are all communist e. g. business decision: The tens have to give up their political belief to be re-employed. Contempt of congress and pleading the first amendment. A political point: go on trail, get protection. Publicate people in list that are seen as communist because the geopolitical events (like nuclear boom and the rise of china) caused americans" general fear of communists. The director has to make sponsor happy in order to run the show. Pressure to blacklist the two above, or the sponsor will stop financing e. g. public testimony, give names of other communists in all a public. Pleading of the fifth amendment (the right not to incriminate one"s self) Attacks on union leadership & critics of blacklist.
