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sop

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5. Director Frank Capra was a prime target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 1950s
Sat Dec 21, 2024, 08:51 AM
Dec 21

HUAC believed his movies' themes were part of a communist plot, and questioned many of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters with whom he was associated.

sop

(12,592 posts)
9. 'When 'It's a Wonderful Life' Was Accused of Being Communist Propaganda'
Sat Dec 21, 2024, 03:46 PM
Dec 21

(First posted at Bill​Moy​ers​.com in 2014) "When the movie first came out, it fell under suspicion from the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)...Among the group who produced the analytical tools that were used by the FBI in its analysis of ​‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was Ayn Rand.”

"Rand’s group told the FBI:"

“The purpose of the Communists in Hollywood is not the production of political movies openly advocating Communism. Their purpose is to corrupt non-political movies?—?by introducing small, casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories and to make people absorb the basic principles of Collectivism by indirection and implication. Few people would take Communism straight, but a constant stream of hints, lines, touches and suggestions battering the public from the screen will act like drops of water that split a rock if continued long enough. The rock that they are trying to split is Americanism.”

https://inthesetimes.com/article/its-a-wonderful-life-communist

appalachiablue

(43,413 posts)
11. Tx for the info. Wacked Ayn Rand, really working to push her paranoid, libertarian ideology.
Sat Dec 21, 2024, 07:27 PM
Dec 21

I need to read more about the activities of this period.

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