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31. Interview of Karl Struss

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
7.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Photographer and cinematographer.

32. Interview of Daniel Mandell

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Film editor and winner of Academy Award for The Pride of the Yankees, The Best Years of Our Lives, and The Apartment.

33. Interview of Harry Oliver

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Film director and artist known for set design. Creator of the “Desert Rat Scrapbook.”

34. Interview of Ray Rennahan

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Cinematographer and winner of Academy Award winner for Gone with the Wind and Blood and Sand.

35. Interview of George Cukor (1969)

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
1 hr.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Film director.

36. Interview of Abby Mann

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
1.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Screenwriter and producer. Known for writing the script for Judgment at Nuremberg.

37. Interview of King Vidor

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Film director, screenwriter, and producer.

38. Interview of Lee Garmes

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with prominent individuals in the motion picture industry were completed under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Film Institute to the UCLA Department of Theater Arts. The project was directed by Howard Suber, UCLA Department of Theater Arts....
Biographical Note:
Cinematographer.

39. Interview of Lupita Tovar Kohner

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Mexican-American actress in the 1931 Spanish-language film Dracula and the 1932 film Santa, one of Mexico’s first narrative sound films.

40. Interview of Edmund Hall North

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
3.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Screenwriter known for writing Patton and The Day the Earth Stood Still.