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1. 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.

2. Interview of Stephanie Rothman

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
8.3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series were conducted with filmmakers and artists in the area of feminist media and art of the seventies in Los Angeles.
Biographical Note:
Feminist film director known for The Student Nurses(1970) and The Velvet Vampire(1971) for New World Pictures. Co-founder of Dimension Pictures , making Group Marriage (1973), Terminal Island (1973), The Working Girls (1974).

3. Interview of Chick Strand

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series were conducted with filmmakers and artists in the area of feminist media and art of the seventies in Los Angeles.
Biographical Note:
Innovator of a documentary form combining subjectivity, ethnography and expressionism, working frequently in Mexico. Founder of Canyon CinemaNews. Professor of film at Occidental college.

4. Interview of Reuben Cannon

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African Americans in Entertainment and Media are designed to document African Americans in television, radio, theater and film and aims to better understand how they overcame bias and discrimination and were trailblazers who opened doors for other African Americans in...

5. Interview of Nunnally Johnson

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
23 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, producer, and director.

6. Interview of Edward Anhalt

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
3.5 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, producer, and documentary filmmaker. Winner of Academy Award for Panic in the Streets.

8. Interview of Michael Wilson

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Screenwriter and member of the Communist Party. Blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) for communist affiliations.

9. Interview of Pat O'Neill

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Experimental filmmaker. California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) founding faculty member and associate dean.

10. Interview of Henry Blanke

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
4.5 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:
Film producer at Warner Brothers Studios.