Oral history interview with King Wallis Vidor, 1958
Oral history interview with King Wallis Vidor, 1958
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- Name
- Vidor, King, 1894-1982 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with King Wallis Vidor, 1958
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of King Wallis Vidor, 1958
- Abstract
- Earliest experiences with motion pictures, experiments with makeshift equipment; Vitagraph; career as director at First National, Metro, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; description of making various films including "The Big Parade" and "Street Scene"; advent of sound; responsibility of the director; impressions of D.W. Griffith, John Gilbert, Lillian Gish. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the We stinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Motion picture actors and actresses; Silent films; Vidor, King, 1894-1982
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1958
- Note (Biographical)
- Moving-picture director
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 14841447
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-fg9b-cd32
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.