Reminiscences of Jay Leyda, 1980
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- Name
- Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988 (Interviewee)
- Hogenson, Barbara (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Jay Leyda, 1980
- Abstract
- Family and artistic background, Dayton, Ohio; assistant to Ralph Steimer, New York, N.Y., 1930; photographs in ARTS WEEKLY, 1930-31; Moscow correspondent, THEATRE ARTS MONTHLY, 1934-36; student and apprentice director under Sergei Eisenstein, editor for Eisenstein's essays and studies; assistant curator, department of film, Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., 1936-40: film-acquiring trips abroad , development of Soviet film collection; cameraman, Workers Film and Photo League; film editor, Frontier Films, 1937: NATIVE LAND, MISSION TO MOSCOW, others; translator, THE FILM SENSE, 1941; editor, THE MOUSSORGSKY READER, 1947, books on Herman Melville, THE YEARS AND HOURS OF EMILY DICKINSON, 1960; catalogued Chinese Film Archive, Peking, 1959-64; work at Staatliches Filmarchiv in Berlin, Germany, 1964-69; professor of Cinema Studies, New York University, from 1974; history of film; reminiscences of many filmmakers and others in the industry
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Educators; Motion picture producers and directors; Authors; Documentary films; Motion pictures--Soviet Union; Motion pictures--China; Motion pictures--Germany; Leyda, Jay, 1910-1988; Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); New York University
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1980
- Note (Biographical)
- Filmmaker, author; interviewee d.1988
- Note
- Interviewed by Barbara Hogenson
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15308533
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-bqp5-vp89
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.