We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
I N SEPTEMBER, 1954, the Board of Directors of The Fund for the Republic authorized a study of blacklisting in the motion picture and radio-TV industries. John Cogley, then executive editor of The Commonweal, was appointed director of the project. He was asked by the Fund to prepare a full factual report on the situation. Beginning in January, 1955, a staff of ten reporters and researchers collected facts in Hollywood and New York. They spent the next eight months interviewing persons on both Coasts who had first-hand knowledge of the situation. In all, almost five hundred persons were interviewed. Special care was given to such questions as: Does blacklisting exist? How did it develop? Who are, or have been, blacklisted? Is "clearance" possible? How does "clearance" operate? Who are the key figures in "clearance" operations? What has been the role of the theatrical unions? What is, or has been, the position of the motion-picture industry on this question? The radio-television industry? The leading advertising agen- cies? The chief sponsors? Do those who have been blacklisted have recourse in the law? Did the "Holly- wood Ten" and the group of self-confessed ex-Com- munists in Hollywood succeed in using the films to propagate the Communist Party line? What do rank- and-file members of the radio-television industry think of blacklisting and what effect has it had on morale in the industry? These and many other questions are answered in this two-volume "REPORT ON BLACKLISTING."