Hollywood begins the Red Scare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKSykTPzA4&feature=player_embedded

This video is an interesting preface to the modern-day Salem--Hollywood during the Red Scare. When you just listen to this video it makes it sound like this is a tame search for a few Communists based on evidence, not the witch-hunt it became. And the bit from the producer too makes it seem like this will be peaceful. The producer makes it sound like Communism is not a problem and is not tolerated, which directly debates the amount of people that actually were charged, guilty or not. The website I checked said that about 350 people from Hollywood were punished, either jail time for contempt of Congress or told not to work for the entertainment industry. Whether they were actually Communists or not (a few probably were) that is a huge number for the amount of real evidence.
 I really get a kick out of how tame and well-meaning this video talks about or implies the search will be and that the guilds actually claimed also to be anti-Communist and willing to do their part. How quickly things changed.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAhuac.htm