Oral history interview with Adolph Zukor, 1958
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- Name
- Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Adolph Zukor, 1958
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Adolph Zukor, 1958
- Abstract
- Early life, arrrival in America; the fur business, penny arcades, nickelodeons; Famous Players and making the first feature picture; merger of Lasky and Famous Players to become Paramount Pictures, 1916; competition; evolution of the motion picture industry, including the star system, block booking, the independent producer. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasti ng Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Executives; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Motion pictures--Distribution; Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1958
- Note (Biographical)
- Film producer, executive
- Note
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 12914189
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-mvtq-dv58
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.