Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program in conjunction with similar efforts at the University of California, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office; Claremont Graduate School Oral History Program; California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; and...
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...
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Scenic artist at CBS Television City for over forty years; past president of Local 816, Scenic, Title, and Graphic Artists.
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:
Scenic artist known for work at Warner Bros. and J.C. Backings and for extensive work as a mural painter.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Animator, director, and filmmaker. Co-founder of Format Films. Founding director and chair of the Department of Animation and Experimental Film at the California Institute of the Arts.
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:
Scenic artist and fine arts painter. Member of Scenic, Title, and Graphic Artists Council at the Art Directors Guild, as well as of the Art Directors Guild Board of Directors.
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...
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Motion picture scenic artist and fine artist who worked at J.C. Backings for many years. Worked on One From the Heart, Rocky II, and Chaplin.
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...
This series of interviews documents the work of costumers in the film and television industries in Los Angeles. The interviews preserve a dimension of Hollywood history and Los Angeles history that has been under-documented to date.
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Costume director for San Francisco Opera and L.A. Opera. Shop manager for Star Wars: Episode VI, Return of the Jedi.
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:
Set designer, art director and fine arts painter who has worked on We Bought a Zoo, Six Feet Under, and many other productions.