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Discusses the Congressional investigation of the political parties of various people involved in the filmmaking industry that lead to the blacklisting of some people by some movie studios. Political self-consciousness in Hollywood, California; Political rumors spreading in the filmmaking industry; Effect of the political investigations on the kinds of movies made; Presence of publicity man to studio visitors.

Discusses about the Hollywood blacklist during the 1950s which has become an occasion for annual celebration by the survivors and the sympathizers of that period of turmoil in old Hollywood. Frank Tarloff as the one who lead the First Amendment-Blacklist Project which is funding public art related to the period; `Red Hollywood' a month-long series of the films of blacklisted artists; `Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist' as the most important book about the period.