... who was considered a communist was "blacklisted". However, no studio executives ever "admitted {that} there was a blacklist. It just wasn't done." Although in the 1950s it was much sensible to produce films that had no political message at all, studios still produced anti-communist movies in a sense to prove that they were not communist. "Studios were under intense pressure to demonstrate their ... anti-communist beliefs. Countless amount of jobs were loss over speculation of ones political beliefs, which exemplifies the fear of communism that the cold war brought to Americans. Commonly...

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... figures, teachers, college professors, and entertainers. The main effect it had on Americans was that off fear. Many Americans were afraid of a communist take-over and all the violence that followed it. Most of these fears were portrayed in science-fiction movies, like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Thing, Invaders from Mars, and The Blob. These ... films all presented traits similar to either the communists or the stereotypical description of communists. In The Blob, the blob shows how the communism is spreading slowly, but effectively over everything. ... ...

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