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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Arthur B. Friedman
Turning Point interviews
Creator:
Friedman, Arthur B.
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0173
Physical Description:
25.5 Linear Feet
(23 boxes and 7 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1957-1962
Abstract: Arthur B. Friedman (1919-2001) taught acting and radio in the UCLA Theater Arts Department, acted in films, television, and
plays, developed sports broadcasting training program at UCLA, and conducted over 100 interviews with pioneers of entertainment
in the program,
Turning Point, as part of the UCLA Oral History Project. Friedman was also the founding curator of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/UCLA
Television Archives, which became the UCLA Film Archives. The collection consists of 53 reels of 22 taped interviews, some
with typed transcripts, of theater and film representatives conducted by Friedman.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed audiovisual materials. Audiovisual
materials are not currently available for access, unless otherwise noted in a Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed digital materials must be made in advance using the request
button located on this page.
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Collection may not be copied.
[Identification of item], Arthur B. Friedman
Turning Point interviews (Collection 173). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California,
Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Arthur B. Friedman, 1970.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Processed by Saundra Taylor, additions processed by Lorain Wang and Catherine Lee, February 2002.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
1470449
Friedman was born in 1919 in Gary, Indiana; attended University of Wisconsin; earned a BA at UCLA (1941), where he majored
in Sociology and Economics and acted in 18 plays; wrote and produced documentary programs for the Armed Forces Radio Service
during World War II; MA, University of Southern California; became instructor in acting and radio in the UCLA Theater Arts
Dept.; Ph.D, University of Southern California, 1955; acted in films, television, and plays; developed sports broadcasting
training program at UCLA; with his students, produced series of documentary films on the California prison system; conducted
over 100 interviews with pioneers of entertainment in the program,
Turning Point, as part of the UCLA Oral History Project; was founding curator of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/UCLA Television
Archives, which became the UCLA Film Archives; he retired in 1990. Friedman passed away in 2001.
Collection consists of 53 reels of 22 taped interviews, some with typed transcripts, of theater and film representatives conducted
by UCLA Theater Arts professor Arthur B. Friedman. Interviewees include: William Demarest, Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Preston,
Edward G. Robinson, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Victor Moore, and Mack Sennett.
Arranged in the following series:
- Original reels of taped interviews (Boxes 1-4, and 6-19).
- Typed transcripts of some interviews (Box 5).
- Preservation master reels of taped interviews (Boxes 19-24).
- Cassette tape copies of taped interviews (Boxes 25-30).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Audiotapes.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Interviews.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Archives.
Friedman, Arthur B.--Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Theater Arts--Faculty -- Archives