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Daniel Schorr— longtime CBS & NPR news correspondent— has died at age 93

 Fri, 07/23/2010 Daniel Schorr was a newsman for CBS from the 1950s to the 1970s, and famously found himself on live TV reading— to his surprise— his own name on President Nixon's "enemies list" while reporting during the Watergate era. Schorr was among the initial hires at CNN and was a Senior News Analyst at NPR in his later career. Daniel Schorr was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on May 22, 2001. Interview description: Daniel Schorr was interviewed for two-and-a-half hours in Washington, D...

John Bartley Interview Now Online— "X-Files" and "Lost" Director of Photography

 Mon, 07/12/2010 “I like the camera to be moving. I’ve gone to work on a couple of shows part time, and they get a little surprised when you say, ‘let’s lay down some track’… ‘Well, we don’t usually do that.’ ‘Well, let’s lay some track today.’” Click here to access John Bartley's newly posted Archive of American Television Interview. Interview Description: On his approach to The X-Files , John Bartley says: “They thought it was crazy to go that dark, to get things down that far. Sometimes it's a little nail-...

62nd Primetime Emmy Noms Announced Today

 Thu, 07/08/2010 With the 62nd Primetime Emmy Nominations, the Archive of American Television congratulates all of the nominees, including our interviewees: Paris Barclay (comedy series direction, Glee ) Ken Burns (producer nonfiction series, National Parks: America's Best Idea ) Kevin Clash (producer children's nonfiction program, When Families Grieve ) Robert A. Dickinson (lighting direction, 82nd Annual Academy Awards ) Dick Ebersol (exec producer special class programs, Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony...

Jerry Mathers— "Beaver Cleaver" of "Leave it to Beaver" is Now Online

 Fri, 07/02/2010 With the release of Leave it to Beaver : The Complete Series this week, the Archive is posting Jerry Mathers' entire Archive interview. Jerry Mathers was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on June 20, 2006; click here to watch his entire four hour interview. Interview description: Jerry Mathers talked about his start as a child model from the age of two, which led to his acting career in “live” television in the early 1950s. He described such appearances as a western sketch on...

Korean War 60th Anniversary-- First US War on TV

 Mon, 06/28/2010 The Vietnam War is known as the "first televised war" due to the graphic nature of the images seen by American viewers. Chronologically, however, the Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, was the first war of the TV era, when the medium was still in its infancy. Just as the television networks were entertaining viewers with the likes of Milton Berle and "Marty" in the early days of TV, they also strove to fulfill the medium's potential for news. One of the most preeminent newsmen in...

Anne Beatts' Archive Interview Now Online— Original "Saturday Night Live" Writer and Creator of "Square Pegs"

 Thu, 06/24/2010 “I remember once at Saturday Night Live having spent the night in my office. There was a heavy snowfall overnight, and I looked out the window onto 5th Avenue and I saw that the entire street was covered with pristine fresh snow. I just felt very joyful and I thought the eight-year-old me always wanted to stay in the city— when you would be going to FAO Schwarz and the Museum of Natural History— and I was always like, ‘someday I’m not going to leave.’ I thought if someone had said to that eight...

Florence Henderson on "Coke Time with Eddie Fisher" in 1954

 Mon, 06/21/2010 One of future "Mrs. Brady" Florence Henderson's earliest TV appearances was on Eddie Fisher's popular 15-minute music show Coke Time (sponsored by Coca-Cola). Appearing on Broadway at the time in "Fanny," she sang songs from that show. Watch Florence Henderson on the show (from the internet archive) and hear her talk about her appearance (in her Archive interview) on the Archive's new show page for Coke Time with Eddie Fisher . Also, find the answer to this trivia question: What currently...

"Bewitched" Creator Sol Saks' Interview Now Online

 Tue, 06/15/2010 “Writer’s block is when you think your ideas aren’t good and you get stumped. And I figured out… that you write it the way you would write badly, the way you wouldn’t turn it in. And as soon as you start, your writing becomes better. Because you‘ve tackled the subject.” Sol Saks was interviewed by the Archive of American Television on May 21, 2009, click here to watch his entire interview. Interview description: Sol Saks learned early that “…with writing. When it ‘works’ you’re anonymous. When...

Here's Lucy: Season Three on DVD

 Mon, 06/14/2010 The complete season three of Here's Lucy comes out on DVD tomorrow. This season featured some of the show's most well-known episodes, including "Lucy the Skydiver," "Lucy Cuts Vincent's Price," and "Lucy Goes Hawaiian, Parts One and Two." The third season opener, "Lucy Meets the Burtons" featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton was certainly the show's most famous— it was also the series' highest-rated episode. Variety called this episode "a fine example of situation comedy played to the...