113: The Hollywood Blacklist

<p>We’re doing something a little bit different this week, because why not?!</p><p>A few months ago in a Patreon bonus episode we rambled our way into talking about McCarthyism and the Red Scare in the USA during the Cold War as well as the Hollywood Blacklist and since we spoke about early Hollywood a bit a few months ago, we figured we should devote a whole episode to the Hollywood Blacklist. So this is that episode!</p><p>Listen in as as talk about the state of the film industry in the 1940s and 50s, communism (or lack thereof), and the infamous Hollywood Blacklist.</p><p>FURTHER READING:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hollywood blacklist - Wikipedia</a></p><p><a href="http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2016/06/21/blacklistarchive" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Blacklist Archive — You Must Remember This</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House Un-American Activities Committee - Wikipedia</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dalton Trumbo - Wikipedia</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#Red_Channels_list" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hollywood blacklist - Red Channels List</a></p><p><a href="https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/984/blacklists" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Blacklists | The First Amendment Encyclopedia</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_Statement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Waldorf Statement in full</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKIfTXRUYwE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elon's Version of the First Amendment (Leeja Miller. Youtube)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First Amendment to the