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COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 473
Mr. Stripling, There is an exact similarity, isn't there?
Mr. SciiARY. As I say, I liave noticed there has been that.
Mr. Stripling. Yon conldn't give the committee any deviations from it, could you, exact deviations?
Mr. ScHARY. Not to my knowledge ; no.
Mr. Stripling. Now, are Mr. Scott and Mr. Dmytryk, who preceded you, employed in your studio?
Mr. ScHARY. Yes ; they are under contract.
Mr. Stripling. You heard them refuse to answer the question whether or not they are members of the Communist Party, did you not ?
Mr. ScHARY. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. Will you continue to employ them?
Mr. ScHARY. They are under contracts to RKO. They were employed by RKO before I came there. My association with both Mr. Scott and Mr. Dmytryk has been very professional. As an executive I have consulted with them on films, t can only say this, Mr. Stripling, I do not know what these men in their minds are pledged to.
It would come to me as a very terrible shock if I found out that these charges being made here in terms of their being foreign agents are true. That would come to me genuinely as a very surprised shock, but I must say, not in defense but in honesty, that at no time in discussions have I ever heard — or films — these men make any remarks or attempt to get anything subversive into the films I have worked on with them. I must say that in honesty.
Mr. Stripling. Well, INIr. Schary, you saw them here this afternoon given every opportunity to answer the questions
Mr. Schary. Yes, sir.
Mr. Stripling. Whether or not they were ever a member of the Communist Party.
Mr. Schary. That is right, sir.
Mr. Stripling. You have heard the investigator for this committee read the name, date, number, and place of their Communist membership.
Mr. Schary. That is right, sir.
Mv. Stripling. There has been no denial from these two gentlemen.
ISIr. Schary. That is right, sir. I can perhaps disagree with their method of answering this question. I must say that there probably remains some area of doubt about their right to answer that way. I personally would disagree with their method.
Mr. Stripling. Now, have you employed at your studio a person by the name of Bertholcl Brecht ?
Mr. Schary. Repeat that, please ?
Mr. Stripling. Berthold Brecht, B-e-r-t-h-o-l-cl B-r-e-c-h-t.
Mr. Schary. No, sir ; I never have.
Mr. Stripling. He has never been employed at RKO ?
Mr. Schary. No, sir ; not while I have been there, not that I know of ; no, sir.
Mr. Stripling. Getting back to Mr. Eisler again, Mr. Schary. If Mr. Eisler, as one who had taken out citizenship papers in the United States, were to send a cablegram to a foreign government in which he quotes :
It gives us courage in the struggle and binds us to give all our strength in the defense of the Soviet Union.