Oral history interview with Leo Calvin Rosten, 1959
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- Name
- Rosten, Leo, 1908-1997 (Interviewee)
- Franklin, Joan (Interviewer)
- Franklin, Robert (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Leo Calvin Rosten, 1959
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Leo Calvin Rosten, 1959
- Abstract
- Hollywood in the late 1930s: how movies are made, what influences their content, what kinds of people make movies, specifics about the movie making process; political climate in Hollywood; influence of pressure groups; anti-semitism and racism; employment practices; recollections of Harry and Jack Warner; comparison of major studios. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse B roadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"
- Collection Name
- Popular arts project
- Subjects
- Authors; Screenwriters; Motion pictures; Politics in motion pictures; Motion pictures--Production and direction; Pressure groups; United States Social life and customs; Rosten, Leo, 1908-1997
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Author, movie script writer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Joan and Robert Franklin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7091904
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-egcj-7t77
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.