Oral history interview with Arthur C. Clarke, 1975
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- Name
- Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 (Interviewee)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Arthur C. Clarke, 1975
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Arthur C. Clarke, 1975
- Abstract
- The interview addresses the following topics: Clarke's permanent move to Sri Lanka; the novel Imperial Earth; speech before Congressional committee in July of 1975; TV broadcasting in Sri Lanka and India; the future of science fiction; early life; an accident in 1962; diving; the film "2001: A Space Odyssey; British Interplanetary Society; George Bernard Shaw; technology and speculation on the futu re
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Authors, English--20th century; Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit
- Interviewed by Deborah Crawford on September 24, and October, 1975
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 6880614
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/btc5-p914
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.