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THE ORIGINAL HOLLY​WOOD TEN
In 1947, an investigation into the Hollywood Motion Picture Industry, started by the House of Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC. Fourty-one people were interviewed all of them who worked in Hollywood. These were people who voluntarily wanted to be interviewed. Mostly known as the friendly witnesses. During the interviews, nineteen people were noted as having **left-wing** views. Ten of those nineteen refused to respond to any of the questions during their interviews, and so becoming The Hollywood Ten. The ten men claimed that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution gave them every right to not respond to any of the questions asked of them and their beliefs. HUAC already disagreed on that fact, and so did the courts. All ten men were found guilty of contempt of congress. All of them were sentenced to six to twelve months in prison.

THE BLACKLISTED
In June 1950, a phamplet listing one hundred and fifty-one names of writers, directors, and performers. Known as the //Red Channels//, was published by three former FBI agents and a **right-wing** television producer, Vincent Harnett. The one hundred and fifty-one people were claimed of being members of **subversive** organizations before the second World War, though none were blacklisted yet. The names were collected from FBI files and from an analysis of the Daily Worker, a newspaper published by the American Communist Party. Employers in the entertainment business were sent free copies of //Red Channels.// All the people in the phamplet were blacklisted until they appeared in front of the HUAC. Convincing the HUAC that their radical pasts were no more.

EDWARD DMYTRYK
On April 25th, 1951 Dmytryk went before the HUAC to get his name removed form the blacklist. He answered all the questions, even naming the twenty-six former members of **left-wing** groups. He told about how John Howard Lawson, Adrian Scott, and Albert Maltz had put him under pressure to make his films express the views of the Communist party. Putting these details out there, made it damaging to those of the original Hollywood Ten because they were in court cases at the time with their previous employers. Even though they still refused to name names, their own names were added to blacklist that were drawn up by the Hollywood film studios.


 * Definition:** **Left-wing**
 * Members of a liberal or radical party, or those favoring extensive political reform.
 * Such a party or a group of such parties.
 * The part of a political or social organization advocating a liberal or radical position.


 * Definition: Right-wing**
 * Members of a conservative or reactionary political party, or those apposting extensive political reform.
 * Such a political party or a group of such parties.
 * That part of a political or social organization advocating a conservative or reactionary position.


 * Definition: Subversive**
 * Adj - tending to subvert or advocating subversion, esp. in an attempt to overthrow or cause the destruction of an established or legally constituted government.
 * Noun - a person who adopts subversive principles or policies.

[|Alvah Bessie]media type="youtube" key="P3MlaFIzCw8" height="405" width="500" align="right" [|Herbert Biberman] [|Lester Cole] [|Edward Dmytryk] Ring Lardner Jr. John Howard Lawson Albert Maltz Samuel Ornitz Adrian Scott Dalton Trumbo
 * The Hollywood Ten:**

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