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Interview

Buddy Baker

In his two-hour interview, Buddy Baker (1918-2002) discusses his early music influences and performances as a child and teenager. He talks of his early radio work for Bob Hope and...
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Interview

Paul Henning

In his four-and-a-half-hour interview, Paul Henning (1911-2005) describes working as a writer in radio -- for Fibber McGee and Molly and for The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. He...
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Interview

George Balzer

In his nearly two-hour interview, George Balzer (1915-2006) recalls his start in comedy writing, first for Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall radio program, and then on the radio show Burns...
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Interview

Richard L. Bare

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Richard L. Bare (1913-2015) talks about his early interests in photography and amateur movie-making. He briefly describes his work in a combat photography unit during World...
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Interview

Erik Barnouw

In his three-hour interview, Erik Barnouw (1908-2001) talks about his early years and attending Princeton University. He describes working for an advertising agency and dealing with the sponsorship of many...
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Interview

Joseph Behar

In his three-hour interview, Joseph Behar (1926-2021) discusses his early experiences as a director. He talks about directing several of Ernie Kovacs' local Philadelphia series, including Ernie in Kovacsland and...
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Interview

Bob Banner

In his four-hour interview, Bob Banner (1921-2011) speaks at length about his first experiences in the new medium of television at WBKB, and later WMAQ in Chicago. He speaks about...
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Interview

William Bell

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview, William Bell (1927-2005) fondly recalls his first soap opera writing job at Guiding Light. He discusses his working relationship with creator and friend Irna Phillips, and...
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Interview

Earl Bellamy

In his three-and-a-half-hour interview Earl Bellamy (1917-2003) talks about his early years in the business working in films as an assistant director to George Cukor. He discusses making the transition...
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Interview

Cliff Barrows

In his one-and-a-half-hour interview, Cliff Barrows (1923-2016) discusses dedicating his life to Christian service when he was in high school and studying radio broadcasting at Bob Jones College. He describes...
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Interview

Donald P. Bellisario

In his three-hour interview, Donald P. Bellisario talks about his service in the Marines and his early years in advertising. He recalls his transition to film and television and describes...
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Tom Bettag

In his two-hour interview, Tom Bettag talks about his educational background in journalism and the influence of Fred Friendly, who Bettag studied under at Columbia University. He chronicles his career...
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Interview

Ted Bergmann

In his five-hour interview, Ted Bergmann (1920-2014) talks about his early years breaking into the business at NBC radio, working as a page before World War II, then as an...
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Interview

Rick Berman

In his three-hour-plus interview, Rick Berman talks about his early years in television, where he worked as a producer on documentary series and specials including The Big Blue Marble. He...
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Interview

Barbara Billingsley

In her three-hour interview, Barbara Billingsley (1915-2010) discusses her early film career at MGM. She then talks about her eventual television roles on Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Four Star Playhouse...
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Interview

Wade Bingham

In his nearly six-hour interview, Wade Bingham discusses his 43-year association with CBS News as a cameraman. He talks in detail about his work with Telenews which provided footage for...
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Interview

Ken Burns

In his two-hour interview, Ken Burns talks about his modest upbringing and his early interest in filmmaking. He describes creating his own company in the 1970s, Florentine Films, and the...
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Interview

Ret Turner

In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Ret Turner (1929-2016) describes his two-decade-long association with NBC that began in the mid-1950s. He talks about several of the shows he worked on in the...
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Interview

Harvey Bullock

In his two-hour interview, Harvey Bullock (1921-2006) talks about his early love of writing and breaking into the business in radio and, with partner Ray Allen, early television. Bullock describes...
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Interview

John Frankenheimer

In his six-hour interview, John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) describes his early television work as an assistant director on You Are There, Danger, and Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person. He speaks...
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