This is my favorite of all the clips. Jim placing the desk lamp on his face both as a microphone and an old fashioned instrument of police interrogation,and sometimes hurling humorous insinuations back at the committee.
@Street Deacon we didn't win but we will. As for 'calling them out', I always find it amusing that liberals will lock up people for their political beliefs, destroy their careers, make it impossible for them to find work, and call it 'protecting free speech and liberty'. Just one of the many inherent contradictions of Capital that make it fundamentally unsustainable...
The Alpha History site only has a short excerpt. The document I linked below has a transcript of the testimony this video is loosely depicting. Zero's "interview" starts on page 11 of the file. Page 2489 per the source document. archive.org/details/investigationofc558unit/mode/2up
It certainly is in the same spirit, and in some cases almost literally, what was said in the testimony. You can read a full transcript here archive.org/stream/investigationofc558unit/investigationofc558unit_djvu.txt
you have the gall to assume you can impersonate Zero Mostel? and to what end? Your own pockets lined by people who think your being socially direct by rehashing this small bit of history of a great life.
Not only I have the gall and lined my pockets with money. I also lined my bookcase with the Drama Desk Award, the Helen Hayes Award, the Ovation Award and standing ovations from Mostel's sons who thought the show and my performance was SENSATIONAL!
These interrogations may have been a small part of his life, but they had a profound effect on the rest of his life. He was questioned, placed under surveillance, had his career derailed, had almost an entire country rabidly convinced that he was an evil Judeo-Bolshevik plotting death and destruction, all because he believed in justice, liberty, fraternity and equality, and because he criticised the US government and powerful US companies when he saw them not upholding those same principles that they claimed to uphold. Truly one of the greatest, bravest performances of an incredibly brave and talented man. And of course, it's not just important for the memory of the people attacked by the government and HUAC, it's vital to all of us who believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, wherever we are, that we never let ourselves, our friends, our children forget that there *are* people who will seek to wield state power and economic power to crush their opposition, and that we must recognise their tactics, their justifications, and their slogans and resolve to fight back. Because if we don't, we WILL lose those freedoms that people like Zero Mostel and countless others, Jewish and gentile, black and white, male and female, before and since, sacrificed so much to win and maintain and pass on to us. Long live Zero Mostel.
Which one? I'm guessing you mean Obama, which is weird because Obama is neither of those things, and never has been. The man is a Christian (which is fine) and a liberal (which is not.) Oh, and when I say liberal, I don't mean the bizarre American definition, I mean the definition everyone else uses, including political scientists. Someone who supports capitalism and liberal democracy and will countenance any amount of bloodshed, torture, degradation and misery visited upon the working class, especially in the countries beholden to the might of the US Empire (what are generally known as the 3rd World), in order to protect the ill-gotten gains of the richest 0.1%-1% of people in the world. In other words, a bastard. (edit: oh, and so is every other president in US history, including Trump. Trump just sprinkles a fair amount of fascist rhetoric in, and adopts some fascistic policies, but is largely just following a centuries-long liberal tradition of vitriolic xenophobia and racism. Of course, by doing so he also exposes the fact that liberalism will always, and has always, done everything it can to enable fascism right up until it harms the profits of capitalists to do so, as long as the alternative is moving even the tiniest little bit towards social democracy or, dare I say it, socialism.)
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Bravo! Oh that we had a Zero Mostel around these sad, silent days!
This is my favorite of all the clips. Jim placing the desk lamp on his face both as a microphone and an old fashioned instrument of police interrogation,and sometimes hurling humorous insinuations back at the committee.
Jim is great as Zero...he would have made the real man proud.
Zero Mostel is the perfect example of a "Mensch"!
Ask his son Josh about that one.
Great portrayal.
Bravo.
Anyone find it ironic that the sound of the House Un-American Activities Committee sounds like what it was? A load of HUAC!
@Street Deacon we didn't win but we will.
As for 'calling them out', I always find it amusing that liberals will lock up people for their political beliefs, destroy their careers, make it impossible for them to find work, and call it 'protecting free speech and liberty'. Just one of the many inherent contradictions of Capital that make it fundamentally unsustainable...
@@ulture What?
@@Baibakov88 what?
Mostel's best movie was A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM. I never knew he was in Hollywood back in the golden age of it.
The movie he made with Gene Kelly back before he was blacklisted
Nonsense!
Better movies of his include:
The Producers
Waiting for Godot
Gianni Schicchi
Marvelous
Is there a transcript of the real testimony? I was never able to find it.
alphahistory.com/coldwar/zero-mostel-testifies-huac-1955/
The Alpha History site only has a short excerpt. The document I linked below has a transcript of the testimony this video is loosely depicting.
Zero's "interview" starts on page 11 of the file.
Page 2489 per the source document.
archive.org/details/investigationofc558unit/mode/2up
@@AgentAlmost Thanks very much!
I wonder what Josh Mostel thinks of Jim's performance.
He loved it. In Toronto, he was first to his feet.
@jvarela965 No, The Producers.
Can anyone testify that this is remotely what Zero Mostel ever said or did?
It certainly is in the same spirit, and in some cases almost literally, what was said in the testimony. You can read a full transcript here archive.org/stream/investigationofc558unit/investigationofc558unit_djvu.txt
Lomedae Your a hard worker. You'll make your grandkids rich.
Here is a link to his testimony: archive.org/stream/investigationofc558unit/investigationofc558unit_djvu.txt
This was all taken directly from the record of his appearance (which was over four hours) boiled down to four minutes.
@diddymuck why so angry? ;)
Revive The Smith Act!!
Click bait, no Zero
you have the gall to assume you can impersonate Zero Mostel? and to what end? Your own pockets lined by people who think your being socially direct by rehashing this small bit of history of a great life.
Not only I have the gall and lined my pockets with money. I also lined my bookcase with the Drama Desk Award, the Helen Hayes Award, the Ovation Award and standing ovations from Mostel's sons who thought the show and my performance was SENSATIONAL!
what do you think......a play is?
These interrogations may have been a small part of his life, but they had a profound effect on the rest of his life. He was questioned, placed under surveillance, had his career derailed, had almost an entire country rabidly convinced that he was an evil Judeo-Bolshevik plotting death and destruction, all because he believed in justice, liberty, fraternity and equality, and because he criticised the US government and powerful US companies when he saw them not upholding those same principles that they claimed to uphold. Truly one of the greatest, bravest performances of an incredibly brave and talented man.
And of course, it's not just important for the memory of the people attacked by the government and HUAC, it's vital to all of us who believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, wherever we are, that we never let ourselves, our friends, our children forget that there *are* people who will seek to wield state power and economic power to crush their opposition, and that we must recognise their tactics, their justifications, and their slogans and resolve to fight back. Because if we don't, we WILL lose those freedoms that people like Zero Mostel and countless others, Jewish and gentile, black and white, male and female, before and since, sacrificed so much to win and maintain and pass on to us.
Long live Zero Mostel.
@@Jimbrochu your performance is excellent. Loved Zero and his work.
@@Jimbrochu, Zero Mostel was a family friend and one of the delights of my childhood summers. You honored him with your performance.
We'll change that as soon as we get that socialist Muslim out of the White House.
And that isn't happening until January, 2017. Deal with it, Patriot.
Which one? I'm guessing you mean Obama, which is weird because Obama is neither of those things, and never has been. The man is a Christian (which is fine) and a liberal (which is not.) Oh, and when I say liberal, I don't mean the bizarre American definition, I mean the definition everyone else uses, including political scientists. Someone who supports capitalism and liberal democracy and will countenance any amount of bloodshed, torture, degradation and misery visited upon the working class, especially in the countries beholden to the might of the US Empire (what are generally known as the 3rd World), in order to protect the ill-gotten gains of the richest 0.1%-1% of people in the world.
In other words, a bastard.
(edit: oh, and so is every other president in US history, including Trump. Trump just sprinkles a fair amount of fascist rhetoric in, and adopts some fascistic policies, but is largely just following a centuries-long liberal tradition of vitriolic xenophobia and racism. Of course, by doing so he also exposes the fact that liberalism will always, and has always, done everything it can to enable fascism right up until it harms the profits of capitalists to do so, as long as the alternative is moving even the tiniest little bit towards social democracy or, dare I say it, socialism.)