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88 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
If you doubt this, I will just ask you one question. Visualize a picture in your own mind as laid in Nazi Germany. If anybody laid a plot just based on a pleasant little romance in Germany and played AVa^ner music and said that people are just happy there, would you say that that was propa^randa or not, when you know what life in Germany was and what kind of concentration camps tliey had there. You would not dare to put just a happy love story into Germany, and for every one of the same reas(ms you should not do it about Russia.
ISIr. Stripling. That is all I have, Mr. Chairuuin.
The Chairman. Mr. Wood.
Mr. Wood. I <yather, then, from your analysis of this picture your personal criticism of it is that it overplayed the conditions that existed in Russia at the time the picture was made; is that correct?
Miss Rand. Did you say overplayed?
^Ir. Wood. Yes.
Miss Rand. Well, the story portrayed the people.
Mr. Wood. It portrayed the people of Russia in a better economic and social position than they occupied?
Miss Rand. That is rioht.
Mr. Wood. And it would also leave the im])ression in the average mind that they were better able to resist the atr<rression of tlie German Army than they were in fact able to resist ?
Miss Rand. Well, that was not in the picture. So far as the Russian war w^as concerned, not A^ery much was shown about it.
Mr. Wood. Well, you recall, I presume — it is a matter of history — going back to the middle of the First World War when Russia was also our ally against the same enemy that we were fighting at this time and they were knocked out of the war. When the renniants of their forces turned against us, it prolonged the First World AVar a considerable time, didn't it?
Miss Rand. I don't believe so.
ISIr. AVooD. You don't?
Miss Rand. No.
Mr. Wood. Do you think, then, that it was to our advantage or to our disadvantage "to keep Russia in this war. at the time this picture was made?
Miss Rand. That has absolutely nothing to do with what we are discussing.
Mr. AA^:)OD. AVell
Miss Rand. But if you want me to answer, I can answer, but it will take me a long time to say what I think, as to whether we sliould or should not have had Russia on our side in the war. I can. but how much time will you give me?
]\Ir. AVooD. AVell, do you say that it would have prolonged the war, so far as we were concerned, if they had been knocked out of it at that time ?
Miss Rand. I can't answer that yes or no, unless you give me time for a long speech on it.
Mr. AVooD. Well, there is a ])retty strong i)robability that we wouldn't have won it at all, isn't there ?
Miss Rand. I don't know, because on the other hand I think we could have used the lend-lease supplies that we sent there to much better advantage ourselves.