Waldo Pressman Salt - American film-maker

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Waldo Pressman Salt (October 18, 1914 - March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted during the era of McCarthyism.
Salt said, "We are all born with human needs. The conflict between those needs and what we do to meet those needs is the drama of life."
An idealist, at 24 Salt joined the American Communist Party (1938). The Communist party became the family Salt never had.
Like many other blacklisted writers, while he was unable to work in Hollywood Salt wrote pseudonymously for, "The Adventures of Robin Hood".
As a Communist Salt was sure that he understood the road map to a better future, and so he was basically optimistic.
In 1956, he heard Nikita Khrushchev explain the atrocities that occurred in Russia under Stalin. Everything he believed in seemed to collapse.
He wrote "To search for truth you must first have lost it."
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Salt began to keep a journal. Much of it was filled with drawings, storyboard's for film ideas.
Salt said that he used the journal to keep his mind working visually during the blacklisting.
After the collapse of the blacklist (1962), Salt struggled to get working again. In the next 3 years he wrote Don Quixote, a script that was never produced.
Salt won Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Coming Home (1978), and a nomination for his work on Serpico (1973).

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