"Don't Smear Industrialists" | Ayn Rand's Screenwriting Advice
"Don't glorify depravity"
“The influence of Communists in Hollywood is due, not to their own power, but to the unthinking carelessness of those who profess to oppose them.”
So began Ayn Rand’s 12-page pamphlet “Screen Guide for Americans,” distributed to Hollywood producers in 1947 to help them keep unintentional communist propaganda off the screen.1
These were the early days of t…