Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (1947)

28 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY in technicolor, and it is worth seeing. Every American should see it ; not only every American, but every foreigner who thinks he wants to be an American. The Chairman. ;Mr. Warner, I hope some of these other producers speak as well for some of their pictures. Mr. Warner. You can find in tliese pictures, gentlemen, pictures like Give Me Liberty, Man Without a Country, Romance of Louisiana; also the Bill of Rights, Lincoln in the White House, Declaration of Independence, Teddy, the Rough Rider, Old Hickory, Monroe Doctrine, Flag of Humanity. A good one to see is March On, America. I Am an American ; that is a very good film we should all see again to reaffirm what this country is all about. It was written during the height of the war in England. America the Beautiful The Chairman. Go ahead with your questions. Mr. Warner. I want the American people to know about that. The Chairman. They will know about it. It will be in the record. Mr. Warner. I want to make sure it is in the record. Also, here is a pro-American film produced by Warner Bros, studies, without profit, in cooperation with the United States armed forces. The last one was called The Last Bomb. It is in technicolor. It was made by the United States Army Air Force and is worth seeing. These are 26 pictures. I won't give you the names of all, but they were all for the war effort. Mr. Nixon. Mr. Warner, I think I can see why you have been so successful in selling your pictures to the American public. Getting back to my original point, Warner Bros, has made a great number of very effective antitotalitarian pictures in which they pointed out the dangers of fascism and nazism. They have also made some very effective films under what we might term "selling America" pictures, in which you point out the benefits of our American system and in which you describe the freedoms which we have here. You have also said you make about 24 full-length pictures a year and 50 or 60 short subjects. You have indicated here in your statement that you are willing to establish a fund to ship to Russia the people who do not like our system of government and who prefer the Communist system to ours. You have also indicated from some of your observations that you question the fact that there may be free speech or a free screen in Russia. You have questioned some of the methods; and I am sure if you have just returned from Europe, as I have, and have seen the conditions in Italy and Yugoslavia and in France, you have no question but that the totalitarian methods used bv the Communists are no different from those used by the Fascists or Nazis. Under those circumstances, I would like to know whether or not Warner Bros, has made, or is making at the present time, any pictures pointing out the methods and the evils of totalitarian communism, as you so effectively have pointed out the evils of the totalitarian Nazis. Mr. Warner. We are preparing, and will make, one film called Up Until Now. That picture has been in the process of writing, but it is a very serious subject, and we have been criticized by some people in messages. I am sure we will come to it a little later. We want to be positive we know what we are doing. Mr. Nixon. The reason you have not made pictures pointing out the evils of the totalitarian system on the left, as well as on the right,