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1947 - Government, USA, HUAC Hearing: Eric Johnston Testimony, R1 of 2. 27Oct47 Card 1 of 3
Johnston to stand w/ counsel Paul V. McNutt. Chairman Parnell Thomas, off camera, swears Johnston in.
11:21:18 Johnston SOF: “He may need to hold my hand Mr. Stripling (laughter).
11:21:26 Johnston reads statement: “I'm not here to try to whitewash Hollywood & I'm not here to help sling a tar brush at it, either. I want to stick to the facts as I see them. There are several points I'd like to make to this committee. The first one is this: A damaging impression of Hollywood has spread all over the country as a result of last week's hearings. You have a lot of sensational testimony about Hollywood. From some of it the public will get the idea that Hollywood is running over w/ Communists & communism. I believe the impression which has gone out is the sort of scare-head stuff which is grossly unfair to a great American industry.” (edit)
11:22:07 MCU SOF: “own efforts. It has rejected sub-sidies & Government assistance. It wants no handouts from Government. All it asks is a fair shake & a chance to live & to grow & to serve its country w/o being unfairly condemned & crucified. I wind up my first point w/ a request of this committee. The damaging impression about Hollywood should be corrected. I urge your committee to do so in these public hearings.There is another damaging impression which should be corrected” (edit)
11:22:43 CU SOF: “years which contained Communist propaganda. Your committee has not made this list public. Until the list is made public the industry stands condemned by unsupported generalizations, and we are denied the opportunity to refute these charges publicly. Again, I remind the committee that we have offered to put on a special showing of any or all of the pictures which stand accused so that you can see for yourselves what's in them. The contents of the pictures constitute the only proof.” (edit)
11:23:20 MS SOF: “I've been advised by some persons to lay off of it. I've been told that if I mentioned it I'd be playing into the hands of Communists. But nobody has a monopoly on the issue of free speech in this country. I'm not afraid of being right, even if that puts me in the wrong company. I've been for free speech ever since I first read the lives of great men in the past who fought & died for this principle & that was in the grade school. There is nothing I can add” (edit)
11:23:54 CU SOF: “speech in connection w/ this hearing, I mean just this: You don't need to pass a law to choke off freedom or free speech or seriously curtail it. Intimidation or coercion will do it just as well. You can't make good & honest motion pictures in an atmosphere of fear. I intend to use every influence at my command to keep the screen free. I don't propose that Government shall tell the motion-picture industry, directly or by coercion, what kind of pictures it ought to make. I am as whole-souledly against that as I would be against dictating to the press or the radio, to the book publishers or to the magazines. One of the most” (edit)
11:24:42 MS SOF: “than the American motion picture industry. To sum up this point: We insist on our right to decide what will or what will not go into our pictures. We are deeply conscious of the responsibility this freedom involves, and we have no intention to violate this trust by permitting subversive propaganda in our films.” (edit) Continued on card 2 of 2.
Cold War; Hollywood 10; Screen Writers Guild; Patriotism; Red Scare; MPAA; Motion Picture Association of America; Communists; Anti-Communists; communism; Witch Hunt; Congressional Committee; Testimony; House Committee on Un-American Activities; 1940s;
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NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1947 - Government, USA, HUAC Hearing: Eric Johnston Testimony, R1 of 2. 27Oct47 Card 1 of 3 Johnston to stand w/ counsel Paul V. McNutt. Chairman Parnell Thomas, off camera, swears Johnston in. 11:21:18 Johnston SOF: “He may need to hold my hand Mr. Stripling (laughter). 11:21:26 Johnston reads statement: “I'm not here to try to whitewash Hollywood & I'm not here to help sling a tar brush at it, either. I want to stick to the facts as I see them. There are several points I'd like to make to this committee. The first one is this: A damaging impression of Hollywood has spread all over the country as a result of last week's hearings. You have a lot of sensational testimony about Hollywood. From some of it the public will get the idea that Hollywood is running over w/ Communists & communism. I believe the impression which has gone out is the sort of scare-head stuff which is grossly unfair to a great American industry.” (edit) 11:22:07 MCU SOF: “own efforts. It has rejected sub-sidies & Government assistance. It wants no handouts from Government. All it asks is a fair shake & a chance to live & to grow & to serve its country w/o being unfairly condemned & crucified. I wind up my first point w/ a request of this committee. The damaging impression about Hollywood should be corrected. I urge your committee to do so in these public hearings.There is another damaging impression which should be corrected” (edit) 11:22:43 CU SOF: “years which contained Communist propaganda. Your committee has not made this list public. Until the list is made public the industry stands condemned by unsupported generalizations, and we are denied the opportunity to refute these charges publicly. Again, I remind the committee that we have offered to put on a special showing of any or all of the pictures which stand accused so that you can see for yourselves what's in them. The contents of the pictures constitute the only proof.” (edit) 11:23:20 MS SOF: “I've been advised by some persons to lay off of it. I've been told that if I mentioned it I'd be playing into the hands of Communists. But nobody has a monopoly on the issue of free speech in this country. I'm not afraid of being right, even if that puts me in the wrong company. I've been for free speech ever since I first read the lives of great men in the past who fought & died for this principle & that was in the grade school. There is nothing I can add” (edit) 11:23:54 CU SOF: “speech in connection w/ this hearing, I mean just this: You don't need to pass a law to choke off freedom or free speech or seriously curtail it. Intimidation or coercion will do it just as well. You can't make good & honest motion pictures in an atmosphere of fear. I intend to use every influence at my command to keep the screen free. I don't propose that Government shall tell the motion-picture industry, directly or by coercion, what kind of pictures it ought to make. I am as whole-souledly against that as I would be against dictating to the press or the radio, to the book publishers or to the magazines. One of the most” (edit) 11:24:42 MS SOF: “than the American motion picture industry. To sum up this point: We insist on our right to decide what will or what will not go into our pictures. We are deeply conscious of the responsibility this freedom involves, and we have no intention to violate this trust by permitting subversive propaganda in our films.” (edit) Continued on card 2 of 2. Cold War; Hollywood 10; Screen Writers Guild; Patriotism; Red Scare; MPAA; Motion Picture Association of America; Communists; Anti-Communists; communism; Witch Hunt; Congressional Committee; Testimony; House Committee on Un-American Activities; 1940s; NOTE: Upon request will provide portion or entire of 11:21:04 - 11:29:37 (3 cards) at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk