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University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Conversation, 1970-1972
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Conversation is a series of videotape interviews with prominent Americans produced by the UWM Instructional Media Laboratory from 1970 to 1972. The series, consisting of half-hour programs, was sup...
Conversation is a series of videotape interviews with prominent Americans produced by the UWM Instructional Media Laboratory from 1970 to 1972. The series, consisting of half-hour programs, was supported through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Interviewees were selected from a broad range of fields and disciplines, including the visual and performing arts, literature, journalism, theology, business, philosophy, education, sports and entertainment, and economics. Guests included the internationally renowned composer Aaron Copeland; broadcast journalist Barbara Walters; chair of the board of S.C. Johnson & Son, S.C. Johnson; NASA administrator and astronaut, James Lovell; photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt; baseball player Jackie Robinson; comedian Arte Johnson; jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie; and economist John Kenneth Galbraith, among others. Each guest was interviewed by a person or persons thoroughly knowledgeable in the guest's field, resulting in lively and informative interviews.
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- Mixed Materials
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- English
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- 31 U-matic videocassettes
- 31 digital video files (225 GB)
- OCLC
- ocn825067539
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- Finding aid available in the Archives
- Researchers must use digital access copies available in the Archives' reading room. There are no other access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law.
- Electronic reproduction. Covington, KY: Scene Savers, 2012.
Subjects
- Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990 -- Interviews.
- Sukenick, Ronald -- Interviews.
- Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022 -- Interviews.
- Pelikav, Jaroslav -- Interviews.
- Perry, Walter -- Interviews.
- Stone, W. Clement, 1902-2002 -- Interviews.
- Tobias, Shelia -- Interviews.
- Johnson, S. C. -- Interviews.
- Lovell, Jim -- Interviews.
- Eisenstaedt, Alfred -- Interviews.
- Greco, José -- Interviews.
- Groppi, James, 1930-1985 -- Interviews.
- Abrahams, Roger -- Interviews.
- Novack, Michael -- Interviews.
- Tobins, Julius -- Interviews.
- Robertson, Oscar, 1938- -- Interviews.
- Davis, Ossie -- Interviews.
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Interviews.
- McGee, Frank, 1921-1974 -- Interviews.
- Johnson, Arte, 1929-2019 -- Interviews.
- Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020 -- Interviews.
- Spidel, George -- Interviews.
- Fox, Charles Philip, 1913-2003 -- Interviews.
- Johnson, Dudley -- Interviews.
- Theobold, Robert -- Interviews.
- Janeway, Elizabeth -- Interviews.
- Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 -- Interviews.
- Vanderbeek, Stan -- Interviews.
- Frankfort, Ellen -- Interviews.
- Klein, William -- Interviews.
- Revel, Jean-François -- Interviews.
- University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Instructional Media Laboratory.