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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Interview of James D. Bissell

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
Biographical Note:
Production designer with credits that include Suburbicon; Good Night, and Good Luck; 300; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Jumanji; The Falcon and the Snowman; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; and Palmerstown, U.S.A.

4. Interview of David Lipton

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:
Advertising and publicity director for Universal Studios.

5. Interview of William J. Fadiman

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
1.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Story editor and producer.

6. Interview of Peter Belsito

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
2.5 hrs.
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 Marina Goldovskaya

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
7.5 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:
Russian American director, writer, and cinematographer of documentary film. Professor Emerita, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

8. Interview of Larry McCormick

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
21 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:
Television and music news reporter, news anchor, and actor. Anchor for Los Angeles local news station, KTLA.

9. Interview of Fayard Nicholas

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
60 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:
Choreographer, dancer, and actor. Member, with younger brother Harold Nicholas, of the Nicolas Brothers jazz tap dance duo.

10. Interview of Robert Guillaume

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...

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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).

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Interview of Jeff Corey

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
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:
Actor and acting teacher who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.

21. Interview of Helen Slote Levitt

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
7.30 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.

22. Interview of Cheri Gaulke

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
3.75 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:
Visual and performance artist. Trained at the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles. Co-founder of Feminist Art Workers, and Sisters of Survival.

23. Interview of Johanna Demetrakas

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
8 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:
Documentary filmmaker and editor, known in part for Womanhouse (1974) and Right Out of History: The Making of Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party (1980).

24. 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.

26. 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...

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. 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.

31. Interview of Dave C. Fleischer

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
5.25 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 and co-owner of Fleischer Studios. Known for the Popeye the Sailor and Betty Boop cartoon series.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. Interview of Mary Davenport

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
2.25 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:
Wife of screenwriter Waldo Salt, who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.

39. Interview of Susan Mogul

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
10 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:
Video artist partially trained at the Feminist Studio Workshop at CalArts and at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, working closely with Judy Chicago.

40. Interview of Friz Freleng

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:
Animator for Warner Bros. Known for development of Looney Tunes characters and the Pink Panther.

41. Interview of Tex Avery

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:
Animator for Warner Bros. and MGM.

45. Interview of Sheila O'Brien

Topic:
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Costume designer and seamstress for Paramount Pictures and MGM.

47. Interview of Donald Gordon

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
1.5 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:
Story editor who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.

48. Interview of C. E. Carle

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
6.5 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:
Public relations executive affiliated with Paramount, MGM, and Twentieth Century-Fox.

49. Interview of Raymond A. Klune

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
6 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:
Production manager for Selznick International Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox. Vice president of RKO and general manager at MGM.

50. 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.