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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 Glenda Wina

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
10.25 hrs.
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...
Biographical Note:
Journalist, anchorwoman, publicist, and producer.

3. 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).

4. Interview of Pat Tobin

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
10.75 hrs.
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...
Biographical Note:
Publicist and press officer. Founder and president of public relations firm, Tobin & Associates, Inc.

5. Interview of Stephanie Waxman

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with several members of the Los Angeles Newsreel Collective, a group active between 1968 and 1971 that was modeled on the Workers’ Film and Photo League. The group's aim was to exhibit films with a radical leftist point of view to a wide range of audiences.

6. Interview of Dennis R. Hicks

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with several members of the Los Angeles Newsreel Collective, a group active between 1968 and 1971 that was modeled on the Workers’ Film and Photo League. The group's aim was to exhibit films with a radical leftist point of view to a wide range of audiences.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Interview of W. W. Hodkinson

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
President of Paramount Pictures and founder of the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation. Founder of the airplane manufacturing businesses Hodkinson Aviation Corporation and Central American Aviation Corporation/Companía Nacional de Aviación.

11. Interview of Edmond DePatie

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Vice president and general manager of Warner Bros. President of the Motion Picture Relief Fund.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Interview of James Wong Howe

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
9.5 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:
Cinematographer and director.

15. 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...

16. Interview of Robert R. Gitt

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Film and Television
UCLA Librarians
Length:
6.85 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Film preservation officer for the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

17. Interview of Richard Huemer

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
10 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:
Animator for Walt Disney Studios.

18. Interview of Michael Gordon

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
24.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Play, film, and television director. UCLA professor of theater.

19. Interview of Alfred Lewis Levitt

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
10.65 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
Biographical Note:
Screenwriter who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.

20. Interview of Vance Gerry

Topic:
Film and Television
Books and Fine Printing
Length:
6.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Animator for Walt Disney Studios and owner of Weather Bird Press, a printing company.