Oral history interview with Eric A. Johnston, 1959

Biographical Note

Motion picture executive

Scope and Contents

Recollections of movies as a youth; Russia in the 1940s; president of Motion Picture Association, 1945: settling strikes, participation in Un-American Affairs Committee hearings, motion picture code and censorship; changes in the industry: studio control, production techniques, economy of industry, tendency towards greater reality in films. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Executives--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Internal security investigations.
• Interviews.
• Johnston, Eric A. (Eric Allen), 1895-1963--Interviews.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)