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Be part of me, Maggie Mae Fish (she/her), as I discover the historical past of labor in Hollywood and the Home Un-American Actions Committee that led to blacklists. It’s all sadly related! From “woke” panic to “cultural marxism,” it’s all the identical because the far-right groups up with literal gangsters to crush the working class.
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5:50 Hollywood vs The Individuals
11:32 Home Un-American Actions Committee
13:58 The Hollywood Blacklist
20:49 These Dang “Woke” Communists
35:39 Lasting Results on Hollywood
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Sources:
Hollywood on Trial (1976) dir. David Helpern
Hollywood on Trial: The Story of the ten Who Had been Indicted by Gordon Kahn, 1948, Boni & Gaer, Inc
Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987) dir. Judy Chaikin
The primary televised Oscars, 1953, by way of Oscars on YouTube
The Hollywood Ten (1950) dir. John Berry
Hearings Concerning the Communist Infiltration of the Movement Image Trade, Eightieth Congress of the US, October 20-30, 1947
“The Hollywood Reporter, After 65 Years, Addresses Position in Blacklist” by Gary Baum and Daniel Miller, The Hollywood Reporter, November 19, 2012
“The Crew Strike That Shut Down Hollywood In 1945” by Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, September 28, 2021
“How The Bloody Hollywood Strike Of 1945 Eternally Modified The Movie Enterprise” by Hadley Meares, LAist, November 23, 2021
The Celluloid Closet (1995) dir. Rob Epstein
“All That Zaz: With Warner Bros. Discovery Merger, David Zaslav Is Angling to Change into America’s King of Content material” by Joe Pompeo, Self-importance Truthful, October 13, 2021
“Heroes and Misfits” by David A Gerber, American Quarterly, Vol 46, No 4, December 1994, Johns Hopkins College Press
Repression and Restoration by Cary Nelson, 1989, College of Wisconsin Press
“The Nineteen Fifties Hollywood Blacklist Was an Assault on Free Expression” by Larry Ceplair, Jacobin, Might 18, 2023
“The Struggle for Warner Brothers” by way of IATSE728.org https://www.iatse728.org/about-us/historical past/the-war-for-warner-brothers
“Hollywood’s Labor Drive Has All the time Needed to Struggle for Employees’ Rights” by Kim Kelly, Teen Vogue, April 23, 2019
To the Better of My Skill Podcast Collection, Season 2, Episode 5 (part that includes Dr Kirsten Burton), The Nationwide WWII Museum, New Orleans
Wanderer by Sterling Hayden, 1963, Knopf
Sterling Hayden on Tomorrow Coast to Coast, sequence of interviews by Tom Snyder, (c. 1977-1981), NBC
Pink Channels, 1950, American Enterprise Consultants
Harmful Dossiers: Exposing the Secret Struggle In opposition to America’s Best Authors by Herbert Mitgang, 1988, Donald I. Tremendous, Inc
Selection points from 1948 by way of archive.org
DeSantis footage by way of Forbes Breaking Information
Tim Pool by way of Tim Pool on YouTube
“All of the world’s a stage” quote from As You Like It by Shakespeare
Extra Movies Referenced:
They Received’t Overlook (1937) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Wild Boys of the Highway (1933) dir. William A Wellman
Casablanca (1943) dir. Michael Curtiz
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) dir. William A Wellman
Going My Method (1944) dir. Leo McCarey
Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins
Greenbook (2018) dir. Peter Farrelly
Captain Marvel (2019)
A Night time on the Backyard (2017)
Robotic Rooster (S02E15)
The New Spirit (1942) dir. Wilfred Jackson and Ben Sharpsteen
The Irishman (2019)
Trendy Instances (1936)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Lodge Terminus (1988)
Bambi (1942)
The Track of the South (1946)
Cinderella (1950)
Crossfire (1947) dir. Edward Dmytryk
Of Mice and Males (1939) dir. Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Entrance (1930) dir. Lewis Milestone
Virginia (1941) dir. Edward H Griffith
The Killing (1956) dir. Stanley Kubrick
Dr Strangelove (1964) dir. Stanley Kubrick
The Lengthy Goodbye (1973) dir. Robert Altman
The Greatest Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler
Clue (1985)
The Donna Reed Present (1958-66)
Advise & Consent (1962)
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Numerous images by way of UCLA Charles E Younger Analysis Library Division of Particular Collections and Regents of the College of California
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I miss the old Maggie before she was killed and replaced by mAIggie
We need more tv and movies about Salem witch trials and the red scare. Perhaps even projects drawing links between the two. Anybody know of works dealing with either or both of them?
capitalism is a ponzi scheme. the rich are your enemy
I was born under a communist dictatorship. If you're not going to take our warnings that communism is anti-human ideological gibberish at face with evidence, then nothing will save you.
You’re the baddie, Maggie. You’re the villain. But you’re too pretty for kinetics.
I’ve used my “typewriter” to express my displeasure with your fight club analysis and got one of your sycophants replying shortly before I got shadowbanned.
What should I use after my typewriter?
Great history lesson
Communism, like socialism, is about using a government to control individuals. It's always the socialists/communists who spend over ten minutes explaining these terrible and failed ideas.
The reality is you are just a communist. Which is just another form of controlling people.
The problem is now when you post your next video you'll ruin the 69…
Anti-communist are not anti-labor nor they militate because of that, communism by itself carries a bunch of ideas that many are against them.
Very surprised you don’t agree that the woke movement is communist. Maybe they don’t realise that but that’s what they are pushing when people are stopped from talking in universities by being shouted down that’s exactly what the communists used to do.
You're right about this and EXTORTION with Slavery took over the Working Class of the US !!!
Labor is #1 anti-labor force out there. It takes very little to manipulate anti-labor sentiments and the status anxiety of labor. A good chunk of labor views itself as temporarily embarrassed millionaires waiting for an upward mobility bus. Labor firmly believes that lower less deserving forms of labor must suffer.
You forgot one of the most important facts…..The Department of Defense (DoD) essentially reviews all hollywood films before they hit market. That should tell you everything you need to know.
It was definitely surreal to hear some Republican lunatic grilling a man from Singapore in congress recently.
He straight up kept using the McCarthy line on him and the man kept saying "I'm from Singapore not China."
The hearing was about TikTok or something. Straight up John Birch level shit.
As an american Gen z socialist… learning socialism sense February last year… It opened my eyes, and capitalism won't save us from climate change or the free market… our lives will get worse before they better
Has anyone explored the Mob's role as anti-labor enforcement?
Or at least as a parasite on the labor movement. that is encouraged by the conservative establishment.
Just because Rick is played by a guy named HumpFree doesn't make Casablanca a bi-curious or implicitly bi film.
Does it? Or is it sulking bottom boy Sam that makes you say this?
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Greed and selfishness should get more is wrong, but so is expecting people to work for no reward. Life is complicated and full of compromise.
Anti-Communism is a brain disease. ☭
May I ask who was it that started the Cold War? Notice how the Cold War didn't really begin until the Soviets got their atomic bomb and started the Korean War? One of the results of the Korean War is a regime known as North Korea, one of the most oppressive Communist dictatorships there ever was, there are three generations of Kims who oppressed their people, all in the name of the worker! Basically the people of North Korea are slaves, and how does the show MASH treat North Korea? As a joke!
There is not much difference between fascists and communists, they both use force and violence to get their way. The Soviet Union was just as fascist as Nazi Germany. Some people like their different flavors of dictatorship, some like the "strawberry Nazis", while others like their "chocolate Communists" I dislike them both, and what Putin is doing discredits both political movements, he is simply a straight out and out imperialist, that is all he is, before such imperialism went under the heading of spreading the Communist revolution, but without the jawboning, Putin is just doing what the Soviet Union used to do, but he no longer justifies it under the name of communism, he is not claiming to fight imperialism while being imperialist himself, he is just an imperialist, very similar to Adolf Hitler in many ways, he started a war just like Adolf did, and for many of the same reasons regarding his country as Adolf did as well!
Who was Lech Walesa? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lech_Wa%C5%82%C4%99sa
Was he an anti-labor lie? He was an anti-Communist and also the leader of the Solidarity Trade Union that had a lot to do with Poland breaking free of the Warsaw Pact and Communism. So who was Lech Walesa?
https://youtu.be/07bwL0fiM1A?t=1474
Such a wonderful statement, and they hide it from the record by claiming it's 'irrelevant'. Fuck the right, the 'anti-woke' and all oppressors.
There's nut jobs on both side of the isle, corporate democrats aren't any better than corporate republicans.
10 minutes in and zero facts that suppot the thesis in the title….
today we see that artists were inherently subversive and trying to push communism and sexual deviancy, clearly studio censorship was a good thing…..and what is with your cringe sense of humor pushing the most childish nonsense?
Im very impressed with the video's you produce i find them very insightful.
You could be a filmmaker just don't cast Clint Eastwood 😊
why so many downvotes?
WHO downvotes a video like this?
fascists?
It's disturbing how much the 'feelings' of bigoted white old men have slowed progress of humanity.
For what it's worth, you look much better in the checkered shirt than in what your AI version is wearing.
You could pay union dues on these videos I hope
25:30 That whole speech…that needs to be given again today, and at the end say who wrote it, when, and why. Most anti-communist and pro-capitalist peole today have no clue about history.
The whole thing is great.
The 52nd Congress made Communism illegal.
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Step on me, m.A.I.g.g.i.e.
no that doesn't work, either
The more things change, the more they stay the same, sadly.
If you haven't already, please consider reviewing the themes of General Electric Theater's industrialist propaganda series.
"We devalue the arts, so we can devalue the labor."
THIS. THIS is the reason that AI has been pushed so hard into the realm of recreating art/music/etc… It's solely to preserve capitalism. If you push automation towards the physical realm, it eventually forces capitalism to crumble since it would afford people the time to learn and pursue their creative/other passions. They wouldn't need to work to live. If you make it incredibly difficult for humans to compete with machines in the creative realm, it forces many into exhausting physical labor jobs, draining them of their energy and ability to organize, to learn, to push back against any systems that would take advantage of them. Same reason colleges are now so villified. People are given plenty of time to LEARN, and most often, when you learn more about the world, about other people, and the systems that make the world run, you are more easily able to see the flaws in it (something those in power KNOW and PREVENT since they BENEFIT from those flaws).
2024 rinse and repeat 🔁
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No if thats what you think you know nothing about communism, there are no labour unions in communist countries
Try telling that to the over 100 million men, women and children that communist regimes have murdered 😳 over the last century alone!
Communism IS a wholly evil ideology!
Great video illustrating how it was the giant movie corporations' agenda to break strong unions which created the Hollywood communist scare. Opinions, rather than any actual seditious acts acts, were criminalized in this country through repressive legislation.
The real front person of the HUAC was Ayn Rand, who wrote "Screen Guide for Americans," a booklet I obtained a copy of, solely so I can show it to naive libertarians who have bought the myth that she was for freedom of the individual.
The "Now Hear This" screen guide, which she distributed just after speaking to the FIB (letters transposed intentionally) to tell them "The Best Years of Our Lives" and "It's a Wonderful Life" among other works had communist themes, set rigid specifics of what you will and will not put in your movies — lest you have your career ruined.
Anti communism is fascism
This is wonderful! Thank you for this work!
Paul Robeson's testimony before the HUAC is something every conscientious citizen should listen to.
Businesses will try anything other than higher wages won't they?