A Study in Reds is a 1932 polished amateur film by Miriam Bennett which spoofs women's clubs and the Soviet menace in the 1930s. While listening to a tedious lecture on the Soviet threat, Wisconsin Dells’ Tuesday Club members fall asleep and find themselves laboring in an all-women collective in Russia under the unflinching eye of the Soviet special police.Mining the home movie: excavations in histories and memories By Karen L. Ishizuka, Patricia Rodden Zimmermann
In 2009, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant."Thriller and 24 Other Films Named to National Film Registry", Associated Press via Yahoo News (December 30, 2009)
References
External links A Study in Reds essay by Patricia R. Zimmermann at National Film Registry A Study in Reds essay by Daniel Eagan In America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010: A Viewer's Guide To The 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry In 2009–10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2011, pages 40–43
, including a digital viewing copy