Injured soldiers being treated in Hanoi, French Indochina during the Indochina War. A medical team of soldiers outside aircraft. A nurse helps an injured soldier to get off a bed in the aircraft. The injured soldiers are carried on stretchers into a medical van. The nurse treats the injured soldiers. The soldiers are taken in the medical van. The medical team stands. Officers greet each other and talk.
Hollywood stars (members of the newly formed, Committee for the First Amendment) visit Washington D.C. to express their objections to the actions of the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC). Opening scene shows movie stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall on a sidewalk at Indendence Avenue in Washington, DC, Southeast of the Capitol building which is seen behind them. A police car is parked at the curb and an officer is standing in the street. Next, they are seen posing with Hollywood personalities, including Danny Kaye and June Havoc, among others. Views of the group from different angles, and from behind a group of photographers taking pictures. Then they begin to walk towards the location of the HUAC hearings, with Bogart and Bacall in the lead. They proceed up the steps of the building. Scene shifts to the hearing room inside, where Screen writer, John Howard Lawson, is being sworn in. He begins to testify. During his testimony, the Chairman, Representative John Parnell Thomas, of New Jersey, finds it neccessary to gavel for order and appears to berate the witness. Lawson leaves the witness chair and departs. Another view of the hearing room.
House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation (HUAC) on communist activities in the United States. Hollywood Director Samuel Grosvenor Wood at House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Upon questioning he denies any link with communists.
Film Producer Louis B. Mayer at hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the United States. Producer Mayer takes his seat and testifies against communism. The Producer further states that communism advocates destruction of system of free enterprise under which Hollywood has achieved popularity.
Film Producer Louis B. Mayer at hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the United States. Producer Mayer seated as he testifies against communism at hearing. Representatives of the committee discuss about communist infiltration of Motion Picture Industry.
Owner of Walt Disney Studios Walt Elias Disney at hearings of House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in the United States. Walt Disney Studios owner Walt Elias Disney answers upon being questioned about having any conversations with organizer Herbert Sorrell relating to communism and states that Mr. Sorrell mentioned about the funding of 1937 strikes against major studios. Walt Disney gives his personal opinion about infiltration of labor unions by Communists, and about the Communist Party, and says he does not believe it is a political party. He also expresses his views about the bills pending before the committee to outlaw Communist Party and further states that American labor unions should be kept clean and should not be affected by communism.
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