1947 - HUAC Hearings - Walt Disney, 24Oct47
Printer ride throughout.
Walt Disney testifying. Tells of selling 3 LITTLE PIGS to USSR, and others turned back or rejected. Talks about union coming in--that Disney refused to sign w/ Herbert K. Sorrell. Disney called an election but Sorrell called a strike. He said he’d make a “dust bowl” out of his plant.
09:12:25 Disney says he thinks he was a Communist. Commie-front organizations: League of Women Voters, People’s World, Daily Worker, PM Magazine in New York, Commie periodicals in South America, etc. 09:14:09 “I don’t believe its a political party; I believe its an un-American thing.” Disney resents that they 'take over the unions.'
09:16:13 People leaving.
Anti-Communism; Hollywood Hearings; National Labor Board; Hollywood Investigations;
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1947 - HUAC Hearings - Walt Disney, 24Oct47 Printer ride throughout. Walt Disney testifying. Tells of selling 3 LITTLE PIGS to USSR, and others turned back or rejected. Talks about union coming in--that Disney refused to sign w/ Herbert K. Sorrell. Disney called an election but Sorrell called a strike. He said he’d make a “dust bowl” out of his plant. 09:12:25 Disney says he thinks he was a Communist. Commie-front organizations: League of Women Voters, People’s World, Daily Worker, PM Magazine in New York, Commie periodicals in South America, etc. 09:14:09 “I don’t believe its a political party; I believe its an un-American thing.” Disney resents that they 'take over the unions.' 09:16:13 People leaving. Anti-Communism; Hollywood Hearings; National Labor Board; Hollywood Investigations;