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COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 31
Pro-Amekican Short Subjects Produced by Warner Bros. Studios — Continued
Release date Title
October 4, 1941 Tanks Aie Coming, Tlie (U. S. Army).
Writer : Original screen pl;iy by Owen Crump.
Stars : George Tobias, WMIiani Justice. February 7, 1042 Soldiers in Wiiite (U. S. Army).
Writer : Original screen play by Owen Crump.
Stars: William Orr, John Litel, Eleantu Parker. July 25. 1042 Men of tlie Sky (U. S. Army Air Forces).
Director : B. Reaves Eason.
Wi-iter: Written and narrated by Owen Crump.
Stars : Michael Ames, Eleanor Parker. December 14, 1940— March on Marines (U. S. Marine Corps).
Director : B. Reaves Eason.
Writer : Screen play by Owen Crump.
Stars : Dennis Moran, John Litel. February a 1941 Meet the Fleet (U. S. Navy).
Director: B. Reaves Eason.
Writer : Original screen play by Owen Crump.
Stars : Robert Armstrong, William T. Orr. April 5, 1941 Wings of Steel (U. S. Army Air Corps).
Director : B. Reaves Eason.
Wiiter : Original screen play by Owen Crump.
Stars : Douglas Kennedy, Hei-bert Anderson. June 28, 1941 Here Comes the Cavalry (U. S. Cavalry).
Director: D. Ross Lederman.
Writer: Oi'iginal screen play by Owen Crump.
Stars: William Justice, Ralph Byrd.
The Chairman. Mr. Wood.
Mr. Wood. Mr. Warner, I can, of course, appreciate the extreme difficulties confronting producers of pictures in undertaking to screen every employee engaged in the various activities of the picture industry; but what I am concerned with is to ascertain whether or not there is now any producer in America, or responsible studio head, who knowingly maintains undei his employment any person w^ho undertakes to inject into pictures un-American doctrines or ideologies which seek to weaken or destroy the form of government under which this Nation has grown to its place amongst the nations of the earth. Do you know of any such producer, and, if so, I would like to have the name.
]\Ir. AVarner. I personall}^ do not know anj^one employing anyone who is willfully or otherwise endeavoring to do anything to the system of American government. As I said earlier — it is what I have read — certain writers have a membership in communistic parties. Some of them haven't denied it after being accused by the press, so I don't know whether they stand convicted or not. I am not the one to judge whether they are Communists or not.
Mr. Wood. That is all, Mr. Chairman.
The Chairman. Mr. McDowell.
]\Ir. McDowell. Mr. AVarner, I would like an opinion from you. You are a very astute man. I recently discovered tliat some people who hel))ed set up tliat thing in Europe, in Germany and Italy, have gotten into America. Would you agree with this committee or with me that it woidd be good for America to take these folks down to Ellis Island and ])ut them on a boat and send them home.?
Mr. AVarxei;. You mean that if anyone comes into this country who eiideavois to irain admittance