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21. Interview of Roy Christopher

Topic:
Film and Television
Length:
2.75 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:
Art director and production designer. Known for Frasier, Wings, Murphy Brown, and Academy Awards, among many other productions.

22. 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.

23. Interview of Ann Harris Hayes

Topic:
Film and Television
COVID-19 Pandemic
Length:
3 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:
Set designer, art director and fine arts painter who has worked on We Bought a Zoo, Six Feet Under, and many other productions.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Interview of John Bright

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
1.9 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 and co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.