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3516 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Miss Lennart. I never knew whether Nora Hallgren worked or not. I understood she was a semi-invalid. Her husband, George Hallgren, worked at Twentieth Century Fox, where I now was working, in the credit union there for a year or so. Again these people I have never seen again. And Joe Bromberg. Mr. Tavenner. Bromberg? Miss Lennart. B-r-o-m-b-e-r-g. Mr. Tavenner. Can you give us further identification ? Miss Lennart. He was an actor. Mr. Tavenner. He is now deceased. Miss Lennart. Yes; I think this year or last year. Those are the people that I remember from this first group. My membership in this at the beginning was pretty much a token membership because just at this time I got my first script clerk job. I don't know if the committee knows what this job is. I believe I was the only script clerk to be a member of the Communist Party. That is a job that has brutal working hours. My normal day was leaving my house at 6: 30 in the morning and I seldom got home until midnight. Mr. Tavenner. What were your duties as a script clerk? Miss Lennart. A script clerk prepares the picture, prepares the script for shooting in terms of putting together those sequences that are shot at one time, making all of the notes on costumes, sets that have to match, as you know. They often will shoot a long shot of a film one day and maybe often not get into the closer shots for 2 months later. All of the details of costume, movement of actors, dialog, and so forth, must match for cutting. It is a very detailed job and when you are through at night, when the company has finished shooting, you prepare a series of sheets for the cutter who cuts his picture using your notes as a guide. But since I was the junior script clerk on the lot, I got the B pictures, Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan and Westerns and so on. Those were called 18-day, 18-night pictures. You shot all day and most of the night and the key crew remained the same. The rest of the working guys were on union shifts. But we stayed all the way through. Mr. Tavenner. Did you have any responsibility in the preparation of the script ? Miss Lennart. The content of the script? Mr. Tavenner. The content. Miss Lennart. None at all. This is just a technical job. It is a kind of a left-handed assistant director. But because of this, for some months, I was able to attend almost no meetings. I think a top average would be once every 2 months, and this was a top on that. I think there was also a problem of what to do with me because I didn't fit into any category, not as if I could fit into a writer's group or writer's work or so on. I think the people in the group, as I remember, were largely occupied with work in the Anti-Nazi League at that time. Mr. Tavenner. Did you also work with the group in the Anti- Nazi League? Miss Lennart. No, I didn't. I could not participate in any mass organization work because of the hours, because of night meetings. However, there was one organization only that I had a very brief