THE H.U.A.C & McCARTHYISM PT1

THE H.U.A.C & McCARTHYISM PT1

October 20, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)  was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities in the USA by individuals or organizations suspected of having Communist ties. The threat of Communism, labelled as ‘The Red Scare’ drove a wedge between society and the US Government. As investigations […]

‘THE RED SCARE’ 1947-54

‘THE RED SCARE’ 1947-54

March 22, 2022 Alan Royle 10

  ‘THE RED SCARE’ 1947-54                      Much has been written about the paranoia that evolved in America, due to the excesses of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the forties and fifties, and their impact on the movie industry in that country. I thought it might be time to post […]

HOLLYWOOD & THE ‘COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY’.

HOLLYWOOD & THE ‘COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY’.

February 14, 2020 Alan Royle 6

                        To understand how the US Government came to investigate possible links between Hollywood and the Communist Party, we need to go back as far as 1938, when the Moscow show trials preceded the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939, […]