00:30The six or seven major studios in a meeting held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel early in December in 1947 made this announcement that ten persons who had refused to divulge before the committee their political affiliation would no longer be employed in the Hollywood motion picture industry, as we call it.
00:53I hate to call it an industry. Did you find then that you were entirely out of work or did you have some method of circumventing this restriction?
01:04Well, I had methods of circumventing it so that I was never entirely out of work.
01:12However, the persons who were in a position to gamble for my services, that is to gamble that my relationship with the picture would not be revealed,
01:23to the picture's ultimate damage, were doing less expensive pictures, and hence I earned much less money.
01:32I might assume you did this, you worked for them, but your identity wasn't revealed. You worked under pseudonyms.
01:39Oh yes, always under pseudonyms. And there would be times when, if I thought of an original story idea for the screen, or of a screenplay,
01:50I would submit it so that no one knew my identity and it would be sold. In that way, the producer himself would not know that he had purchased it from me.
02:00Mr. Trumbo, what is your attitude to a community that takes such a sanction against an individual?
02:07Well, it is really not this community that took the sanction. The sanction, the community itself opposed the idea.
02:19The heads of the studios at the Waldorf Astoria conference opposed it. However, the owners, the financiers in charge of the studios insisted upon it.
02:29The sanction itself grew, as you know, in 1947 and 1948 out of a great world crisis, in which I think this particular community was no more guilty than many other communities in America,
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