Walt Disney Named Herbert Sorrell A Communist Before Congress In 1947
He told the panel Sorrell threatened to turn his plant into a dust bowl, then named Hilberman the real organizer.
- Sorrell organized the 1941 strike of Disney's animators under the Screen Cartoonists Guild.
- Disney testified about Sorrell: 'If he isn't a Communist, he sure should be one.'
- He called David Hilberman, trained at Moscow's Art Theatre, the strike's 'real brains.'
Why it matters: No infiltration is abstract: it always has a name, and Disney gave Congress two.
House Committee on Un-American Activities, Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry (80th Congress), Walter E. Disney testimony, Oct. 24, 1947 ↗ · Sep 7, 20269/7/26