"Season of Fear" is a semiautobiographical script by a blacklisted writer and director, Abe Polonsky.

What got Mr. Bernstein through the difficult times, he says, was his friendship with other blacklisted writers and artists.

In 1997, the WGA restored full writing credits to blacklisted writers whose names were left out of films they worked on.

Since 1980, the guild has restored credits to blacklisted writers who worked on nine films, either as writers or co-writers.

Another demonstrator, Bob Lees, 86, also a formerly blacklisted writer, said: "Kazan could have worked.

To their discredit, the blacklisted writers ignored the fact that under Stalin millions were being enslaved and liquidated.

Unlike other blacklisted writers and producers, the Scotts could not seek work in Europe or Mexico.

Abraham Polonsky, a blacklisted writer, said today: "The issue for me is, if he apologized, nothing would take place.

He also felt one of the reasons it was never shown on television, even as late as 1962, was because he had been a blacklisted writer.

This opened the floodgates for producers to employ blacklisted writers during the McCarthy Era without having to credit them.