Finding Aid for the Arthur B. Friedman Turning Point Interviews LSC.0173

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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.

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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

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Preferred Citation

[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.

Processing Information

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Processed by Saundra Taylor, additions processed by Lorain Wang and Catherine Lee, February 2002.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 1470449 

Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:
  1. Original reels of taped interviews (Boxes 1-4, and 6-19).
  2. Typed transcripts of some interviews (Box 5).
  3. Preservation master reels of taped interviews (Boxes 19-24).
  4. 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

box 1-4 and 6-24

[Original Reel-to-Reel Tapes and Preservation Copies]

General note

[Unavailable for use].
box 25

Ackerman, Harry

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Ackerman, Irving

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Anderson, Bronco Billy

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Atkinson, Brooks

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Baker, Dorothy

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Barr, Ida

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Barthelmess, Richard

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1 of 2).
box 25

Barton, James

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1 of 2).
box 25

Calvin, Wyn

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Capra, Frank

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (3).
box 25

Cerf, Bennett

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Conklin, Chester

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25

Connelly, Marc

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 25, box 26

Cranston, Edward

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 26

Danvers, Billy

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 26

Demarest, William

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 26

Dowling, Eddie

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 26

Elliot, G.H.

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 26

Elton, Arthur, Sir

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 26

Freedley, George

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 26

Freedly, Vinton

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 26

Garmes, Lee

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 26

Gaxton, William

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 26

Gielgud, John

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 26

Gish, Dorothy

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 26

Gish, Lillian

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 27

Gleason, James

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 27

Hail Variety

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 27

Henlere, Hershel

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 5

Hodkinson, W.W.

General Physical Description note: Transcripts (2).
box 5

Keaton, Buster

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 27

Keaton, Buster

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 27

Lane, Alfred W.

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 5

Laurel, Stan

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 27

Laurel, Stan

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 27

Lawrence & Lee

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 27

Lewin, Albert

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 27

Lloyd, Harold

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 27

Lord, Del

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 27

Lupino, Barry

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (3).
box 5

Macgowan, Kenneth

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 27, box 28

Macgowan, Kenneth

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 28

Mantz, Paul

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 28

Marsh, Mae

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 28

Mayer, Arthur

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 5

McGiveney, Owen

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 28

McGiveney, Owen

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 28

Metropolitan Music Hall

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 28

Miller, Max

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (3).
box 5

Moore, Victor

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 28

Moore, Victor

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 28

Parsons, Louella

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 28, box 29

Pickford, Mary

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (4).
box 29

Poultney, George

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 29

Preston, Robert

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 29

Quigley, Martin

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 29

Reicher, Frank

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 29

Ritchard, Cyril

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 29

Roach, Hal

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 29

Rodgers, Richard

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 29

Rotha, Paul

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 5

Schary, Dore

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 29

Schary, Dore

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 29

Schildkraut, Joseph

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 29

Scott, Arthur

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 29

Seitz, John

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 29

Sennett, Mack

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 5

Sennett, Mack

General Physical Description note: Transcript (1).
box 30

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 30

Smith, Albert

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (5).
box 30

Sutton, Randolph

General Physical Description note: Cassette tape (1).
box 30

Trinde, Tommy

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 30

Wood, Wee Georgie

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 30

Zukor, Adolph

General Physical Description note: Cassette tapes (2).
box 30, case 1

Adolph Zukor yrlsc_0173_030_001a 1958 February 28

Physical Description: 1 Sound Recordings(1 audiocassette; Duration: 0:31:41)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are available for access. All requests to access digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Scope and Contents

Part of the Turning Point program as part of the UCLA Oral History Project. Transcribed from container: "Adolph Zukor Reels 1 and 2 02/28/58. Cassette copy recorded on A and B"
box 30, case 1

Adolph Zukor yrlsc_0173_030_001b 1958 February 28

Physical Description: 1 Sound Recordings(1 audiocassette; Duration: 0:32:40)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are available for access. All requests to access digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Scope and Contents

Part of the Turning Point program as part of the UCLA Oral History Project. Transcribed from container: "Adolph Zukor Reels 1 and 2 02/28/58. Cassette copy recorded on A and B"
box 30, case 2

Adolph Zukor yrlsc_0173_030_002 1958 February 28

Physical Description: 1 Sound Recordings(1 audiocassette; Duration: 0:32:40)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials are available for access. All requests to access digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Scope and Contents

Part of the Turning Point program as part of the UCLA Oral History Project. Transcribed from container: "Adolph Zukor Reel 3 02/28/58. Cassette copy recorded on A only"
 

[Summaries of Select Recordings]

 

Barthelmess, Richard

General Physical Description note: (2 Cassette tapes, total time: 1 hour, 17 minutes)
box 25

Richard Barthelmess.

Scope and Contents note

Reel no.1
  • 0.00 Introduction
  • 1.45 The way Mr. Barthelmess began his career
  • 8.00 His first film experience
  • 9.30 The Clair Kimball Young Film Corporation and Louis J. Selznick, Hal Brennan, and Miss Immova, War Brides (film)
  • 15.15 Margurite Clark, Florence Reed The Eternal Sin (film)
  • 16.30 The names of some of the pictures he did
  • 17.15 Hal Brennan as a director
  • 18,30 His opinion of and experience with D.W. Griffith
  • 20.00 Broken Blossoms (film - 1919)and Hearts of the World (film)
  • 28.14 End of Reel no.1
Reel no.2
  • 0.00 Broken Blossoms admission price and the way Mr. Griffith taught Mr. Barthelmess to study a part
  • 4.50 Scarlet Days (film - July 1919)
  • 6.00 The Love Flower and The Idle Dancer (films)
  • 7.15 Way Down East (film)
  • 10.15 Joseph Fergeshammer and Tol'able David (film)
  • 11.30 Experience (film)
  • 15.45 Inspiration Studios and Tol'able David directed by Henry King (film - 1921)
  • 19.15 The names of studios then in New York and the reason they moved to California (1926)
  • 21.30 The reason Mr. Barthelmess should have stayed with Inspiration Studios
  • 25.45 The Patent Leather Kid and The Enchanted Cottage (film)
  • 27.12 End of Reel no.2
Reel no.3
  • 0.00 Dawn Patrol (film-1930) and what sound pictures did at Warner Brothers Studios
  • 2.15 Weary River (film) his first talking picture
  • 5.25 Dawn Patrol and Son of the Gods (films) and how Douglas Fairbanks Jr. became a success
  • 7.35 Mr. Barthelamess' more recent pictures
  • 8.15 His George Eastman House Award
  • 18.21 End of Interview
 

Freedly, Vinton

General Physical Description note: (1 Cassette tape, total time: 28 minutes)
box 26

Vinton Freedley.

  • 0.00 How he got started in show business
  • 6.45 The role of the producer in the early 20's
  • 10.50 Why he worked so much with musical comedy
  • 11.20 In what ways the role of the producer has changed in the last 30 years
  • 12.20 He discusses how a show was financed in the 20's and how it is done now
  • 13.45 He talks about what has happened to musical comedy in the last few years and of the people he has worked with
  • 22.45 What has happened to Browdway and the audiences
  • 25.55 How his years in the theatre can be summed up
  • 26.50 His plans for the future
 

Keaton, Buster

General Physical Description note: (1 Cassette tape, total time: 44 minutes)

General note

[Transcript in Box 5]
box 27

Buster Keaton.

General note

Directed by Arthur B. Friedman, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre Arts, UCLA.

Scope and Contents note

Reel no.1
  • 0.00 Introduction
  • 0.40 Mr. Friedman's Introduction
  • 1.25 When Mr. Keaton got started

    a. Hoodini and Keaton

    b. Mother and father act at age 4 in Vaudeville
  • 4.15 Child Welfare Agency trouble
  • 5.00 Keaton's schooling
  • 6.30 Hammerstein's Theater
  • 6.45 Brothers and sisters of Keaton
  • 7.15 How Keaton developed his comics
  • 8.15 How Keaton got the names stone-face and Buster
  • 8.40 How Keaton got into the movies

    a. Fattie Arbuckle
  • 10.15 Where Keaton got his plots (material)

    a. How they made up plots
  • 12.15 How comedy styles differ in silent and talking motion pictures
  • 13.15 What kind of studios Keaton had

    a. How his movie company worked
  • 15.00 What the differences are between today's movie comedy and movie comedy yesterday
  • 16.45 What worked well for Keaton by accident
Reel no.2
  • 0.00 The Navigator (film)

    a. How it came to being

    b. Story
  • 8.30 The Boat (film)
  • 10.00 Television for Keaton
  • 11.00 Fairbanks Show
  • 11.40 Recent movies of Keaton's
  • 12.20 Eastman Award
  • 13.20 The Happiest Moments of Keaton's Career
  • 14.15 Children and grandchildren of Keaton
  • 15.00 Keaton's words of wisdom
 

Laurel, Stan

General Physical Description note: (2 Cassette tapes, total time: 1 Hours, 14 minutes 25 seconds)

General note

[Transcript in Box 5]
box 27

Stan Laurel.

Scope and Contents note

Reel no.1
  • 0.00 Introduction to Turning Point
  • 0.20 Dr. Friedman introduces Stan Laurel
  • 1.10 The death and funeral of Oliver Hardy
  • 2.15 Mention of the teams in comedy
  • 2.35 Discussion of the split between Hardy and Laurel
  • 3.25 Mr. Laurel discusses his long time association with Hardy
  • 3.55 Mr. Laurel explains how they stayed together for so long
  • 5.40 Mr. Laurel's reason for working with partners
  • 6.20 Discussion of Mr. Laurel's experience in films
  • 8.20 Why he was a gag man and a director
  • 8.50 His experience as a director of the old stars
  • 9.20 Babe comes into stock
  • 9.40 Leg of lamb connection
  • 10.15 Mr. Laurel begins to write self in movies while director
  • 11.30 The beginning of the Laurel and Hardy team
  • 11.45 His beginnings in a juvenile pantomime company
  • 12.15 Works in his father's dramatic theatres as a utility man
  • 12.55 Follow in father's footsteps in becoming a comic
  • 13.25 Tells of his sneak appearances in vaudeville
  • 14.00 Givers his reasons for becoming a comic
  • 15.15 His golywogg experiences in juvenile companies
  • 17.05 After a well-rounded theatrical education decides to become a boy comedian
  • 17.55 Joins Fred Carno and understudies for Chaplin
  • 18.40 Takes Chaplin's part for awhile in Jimmie the Fearless
  • 20.10 Comes to states with the company
  • 23.00 After awhile returns to England and forms Barto Brothers
  • 23.15 Known as Stanley Jefferson
  • 24.35 Suffers a bad trip with the troupe to Holland
  • 26.05 Penniless joins brother in London
  • 27.00 With promised raise rejoins Carno and comes back to the states
  • 27.45 Has no parental interference
  • 28.05 Tells of his two brothers and one sister
Reel no.2
  • 0.00 Decides to stay in the states and teams up with the Herrly's [?]
  • 1.45 Gets break and opens in Jersey City
  • 2.10 Changes name of company to Keystone Trio and becomes as success using the Chaplin mannerisms
  • 3.50 Partners' jealousy breaks up company
  • 4.50 Forms new company and drops the Chaplin mannerisms
  • 5.10 Talks about his material
  • 6.00 Forms the Stan Jefferson Trio
  • 6.20 Discusses costume with Hardy using boys' derby and later makes own
  • 7.35 Tells of the conditions of the lower theatre circuits
  • 8.40 Tells how he became connected with Hal Roach
  • 9.35 Changes name to get a bigger billing
  • 10.55 Replaces Toto in finishing out his series
  • 11.30 Never plays on Chaplin's name to get ahead
  • 11.45 Tells of Chaplin's sure fireness
  • 12.25 Why he was anxious to get into pictures
  • 13.05 Let out after finishing the Toto series
  • 13.50 Makes no attempt to create a special character
  • 14.25 Does bits with Larry Seaman
  • 14.35 Returns to the red
  • 15.00 Goes with Bronco Billy
  • 15.15 Returns again to the road comes back for a few pictures
  • 15.45 How he became a gag writer and a director
  • 16.55 Laurel and Hardy by a series of accidents
  • 17.30 Explains how he got his short hair
  • 18.20 Anything for a laugh
  • 18.30 Talks about Hardy's bangs
  • 19.00 Explains their method of shooting their pictures and why
  • 19.45 The slower we went
  • 20.10 Mr. Laurel tells of the relationship of the two characters
  • 20.50 The talking pictures come in
  • 21.15 Making their pictures as long as they happened to last
  • 21.45 Being able to make the last of the successful two reelers
  • 22.00 Sticks to silent reel methods
Reel no.3
  • 0.00 Their first talkie Unaccustomed As We Are in 1929
  • 0.20 Their first full length talkie Pardon Us and how it came about
  • 3.00 Tells of the fan letters he receives
  • 4.30 The Command Performance of Laurel and Hardy
  • 5.20 Doesn't know why he is still popular in foreign countries
  • 6.30 The universal language of silent films
  • 7.30 Where the story gags came from
  • 8.20 Off the cuff shooting technique
  • 9.20 Talks about his best pictures
  • 9.40 His return to be vaudeville stage in Europe with Hardy and why
  • 11.10 His last film in Europe and why it flopped
  • 12.25 What Mr. Laurel is currently doing
  • 13.00 His hobbies
  • 13.45 His bad health
  • 13.55 Comments on his retirement
  • 14.10 Discussion of letters of condolence
  • 15.40 Dr. Friedman reads a typical letter
  • 18.20 Thanks
  • 18.45 Cap
 

Moore, Victor

General Physical Description note: (2 Cassette tapes, total time: 1 hour, 22 minutes)

General note

[Transcript in Box 5]
box 28

Victor Moore.

Scope and Contents note

Reel no.1
  • 0.00 Introduction
  • 2.38 How Mr. Moore got started
  • 5.30 Shows that he saw as a child
  • 6.15 His first shows: Hugget Hell and Crowford's Claim
  • 16.00 Change Your Act or Go Back to the Woods (vaudeville act)
  • 18.30 Early Life (vaudeville act)
  • 21.20 With John Dru in Rosemary
  • 25.00 Spiritualist (a play)
  • 27.00 Julius Caesar (a play)
  • 27.45 About his association with Mr. Erlanger
  • 29.20 End of Reel no.1
Reel no.2
  • 0.00 Mr. Moore's first variety act
  • 0.50 His description of stock company work in 1899
  • 3.45 Change Your Act or Go Back to the Woods
  • 5.30 His marriage to Emma Littlefield and his sister's death and about his mother
  • 9.14 Forty-five minutes From Broadway and Kit Burns
  • 14.40 His first motion picture, Snobs also about Jesse Lasky and C.B. DeMille
  • 16.45 The Clown and Thomas Meanne
  • 21.45 Jimmy Fadden and Jimmy Fadden Out West (two moving pictures)
  • 23.00 How they make Klever Kommedies (motion pictures)
  • 24.45 Okay, Funny Face, Of Thee I Sing, Anything Goes
  • 27.00 Gertrude Lawrence
  • 29.00 End Of Reel no.2
Reel no.3
  • 0.00 Alley Oop (play)
  • 1.00 Funny Face with Fred and Adelle Astaire
  • 1.40 Of Thee I Sing and Let `em Eat Cake
  • 7.15 How much did he lend to his roles?
  • 9.25 Louisiana Purchase (musical)
  • 12.15 His Turning Point
  • 14.00 At Hammersteins
  • 16.00 At the Palace Theatre
  • 18.30 Plans for the future
  • 19.30 How he met his wife
  • 24.00 End of Interview
 

Robinson, Edward G.

General Physical Description note: (2 Cassette tapes, total time: 2 hours, 52 minutes 18 seconds)
box n/a

Edward G. Robinson.

Scope and Contents note

Reel no.1
  • 0.00 Introduction to Turning Point
  • 0.20 Introduction to Robinson
  • 1.00 Reason for residing across from the Museum of Modern Art
  • 2.30 Birthplace and early schooling
  • 3.20 University education
  • 3.58 Interest in languages, literature, drama, philosophy and his reason for
  • 4.20 His parents aspirations for his career
  • 5.05 Idea of being an actor and his amateur experience
  • 5.20 Realization of the scope of acting
  • 6.20 Reason for amateur experience
  • 7.00 Experience in university settlement house amateur group
  • 7.50 Realization of his limitations of size and appearance
  • 8.25 His feeling of having something to say
  • 9.14 The responsibility of an actor in portraying another person
  • 9.25 The actor's job of creation and not interpretation
  • 10.30 What the actor brings to the stage
  • 10.50 The value of his experience in all types of education
  • 12.00 His connection with playwriting; The Bells of Conscience and his part on Kibitzer
  • 14.30 His association with he American Academy of Dramatic Arts and the value of knowing what you want to do early in life
  • 15.05 His various ambitions: rabbi, lawyer, teacher, actor
  • 18.50 The value of his experience with the Academy
  • 20.30 Feelings on the Actor Studio and schools in general
  • 22.35 Advice to those who aspire to be actors
  • 24.05 His Theatre Guild experience
  • 24.40 His planned program and purpose in becoming an actor
  • 26.35 His amendments to his planned program and why
  • 27.50 Advice to build slowly from small parts to starring roles
  • 28.30 Example of his rise and sound pictures; from feature to star
Reel no.2
  • 0.00 Danger and temptation of rushing acting careers
  • 0.40 The result of rushing
  • 1.00 First silent film in Cuba 1923 for Richard Barthemous
  • 2.35 Illegitimacy of silent picture acting
  • 3.15 Divorcement of theatre when talking pictures came in and first film Little Caesar
  • 4.10 The attraction of Hollywood and reasons for coming to Hollywood
  • 5.20 Motion pictures made possible art collection
  • 6.00 His comments on his motion pictures
  • 6.25 After 26 years his return to Broadway in Darkness at Noon in the road company
  • 7.40 His comments on stage fright and stage preparation
  • 10.00 Paddy Chayefsky's Middle of the Night and why he took the part in it
  • 11.40 His comments on captive audiences
  • 12.50 His future plans
  • 13.40 No particular Turning Point and comment on
  • 14.45 What he would have done differently and why
  • 16.10 The value of motion picture action and its influence on his stage acting
  • 17.50 Big Town radio experience and idea of radio acting
  • 18.50 His comment on his most rewarding roles
  • 19.20 What he gets from art and the value it has had for him
  • 20.40 Dr. Friedman's thanks and invitation to visit campus
 

Sennett, Mack

General Physical Description note: (1 Cassette tape, total time: 30 minutes)

General note

[Transcript in Box 5]
box 29

Mack Sennett.

  • 0.00 Introduction to Turning Point
  • 0.20 Introduction of Mack Sennett
  • 1.10 Discussion of his theory of comic motion
  • 2.07 The difference between comic motion and pantomime
  • 2.55 Schematic reasoning to his films
  • 3.25 Comparison of his films to ballet
  • 3.55 Keystone Cops origin
  • 4.35 Use of crowd scenes
  • 7.20 Fall of dignity theory
  • 7.45 Pie throwing origination with Mable Norman
  • 8.20 Keep the camera rolling theory
  • 10.25 Bathing beauty origin (skirt to knees)
  • 13.45 Discovery of many great talents
  • 14.55 Those talents that slipped through
  • 17.20 Work best from bath-tub theory
  • 18.20 Farmer gag, Mike Foy's [?] gag
  • 19.10 This is a handy tool
  • 19.45 Development of dramatic talent
  • 20.10 no man in ladies dressing room rule
  • 22.05 Arthur Riply incident
  • 24.15 Begin the same thing! theory
  • 24.30 Trouble of keeping the laugh going
  • 25.30 No big boss-studio techniques
  • 26.30 Gateman firing incident
  • 27.20 Mother didn't discourage his dreams
  • 28.15 His turning point
  • 29.50 Cap