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

Subjects

• Executives--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Internal security investigations.
• Interviews.
• Johnston, Eric A. (Eric Allen), 1895-1963.
• Motion picture industry.
• Motion pictures--Censorship.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)