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Talking Film

Year: 1978
Seasons: 1
Type: TV Series
Genre: Documentary

Overview

Movie expert Elwy Yost interviews industry people on both sides of the camera, encouraging them to talk about themselves, the state of their art, and its history. The series features many famous film personalities who, along with producers, directors, designers, screenwriters, and critics, offer candid insights into the making of motion pictures.

Episodes

EP 1
EP 1 The Producer (1)
EP 2
EP 2 The Director
EP 3
EP 3 The Screenwriter
EP 4
EP 4 Acting in the Cinema
EP 5
EP 5 Cinematography
EP 6
EP 6 Designing Movies
EP 7
EP 7 The Making of a Motion Picture (1)
EP 8
EP 8 Sex and Violence in the Cinema
EP 9
EP 9 How Movies Are Sold
EP 10
EP 10 A Portrait of John Ford (1)
EP 11
EP 11 Zanuck
EP 12
EP 12 The Hollywood Ten: An Interview with Writer Ring Lardner Jr.
EP 13
EP 13 The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (1)
EP 14
EP 14 The Western
EP 15
EP 15 Hooray for Hollywood
EP 16
EP 16 A Portrait of George Stevens (1)
EP 17
EP 17 The Critic
EP 18
EP 18 More Special Effects
EP 19
EP 19 The Nightmare People: Horror in the Cinema
EP 20
EP 20 The Animators
EP 21
EP 21 The Cinema of John Huston
EP 22
EP 22 The Cinema of Frank Capra (1)
EP 23
EP 23 More Film Criticism
EP 24
EP 24 Powell and Pressburger
EP 25
EP 25 Thirty Years of British Cinema
EP 26
EP 26 David Lean and Sir Carol Reed
EP 27
EP 27 Women in the Cinema
EP 28
EP 28 The Serial
EP 29
EP 29 The Cinema of Henry Hathaway
EP 30
EP 30 The Business of Directing
EP 31
EP 31 The Making of a Motion Picture (2)
EP 32
EP 32 The Making of a Motion Picture (3)
EP 33
EP 33 A Conversation with Pauline Kael
EP 34
EP 34 Gods and Goddesses of the Cinema
EP 35
EP 35 The Cinema of Elia Kazan
EP 36
EP 36 Anatomy of Suspense
EP 37
EP 37 The Making of a Motion Picture (4)
EP 38
EP 38 The Big Studios: Twentieth Century-Fox
EP 39
EP 39 A Conversation with Otto Preminger
EP 40
EP 40 A Portrait of George Stevens (2)
EP 41
EP 41 A Portrait of John Ford (2)
EP 42
EP 42 A Conversation with Joseph L. Mankiewicz
EP 43
EP 43 The Producer (3)
EP 44
EP 44 Two Film Critics
EP 45
EP 45 An Interview with Samuel Fuller
EP 46
EP 46 Women in the Cinema: The Writer
EP 47
EP 47 Stars of the Cinema: Stewart Granger
EP 48
EP 48 The Cinema of King Vidor
EP 49
EP 49 The Making of a Musical
EP 50
EP 50 The Western Revisited
EP 51
EP 51 Music in the Cinema
EP 52
EP 52 The Screenwriter (2)
EP 53
EP 53 Cinematography (2)
EP 54
EP 54 Special Effects
EP 55
EP 55 The Cinema of Henry King
EP 56
EP 56 The Documentary: An Interview with Pare Lorentz (2)
EP 57
EP 57 Stars of the Cinema: Richard Widmark
EP 58
EP 58 The Cinema of Frank Capra (2)
EP 59
EP 59 The Classic Western
EP 60
EP 60 An Afternoon with Jack Lemmon
EP 61
EP 61 Two Tragic Stars: Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift
EP 62
EP 62 The Marx Brothers and Their Writers
EP 63
EP 63 The Cinematic Genius of Rouben Mamoulian
EP 64
EP 64 All Singing, All Dancing
EP 65
EP 65 The Music Men
EP 66
EP 66 The Screenwriter (3)
EP 67
EP 67 Lotusland
EP 68
EP 68 Hollywood Portraits: David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock
EP 69
EP 69 The Producer (2)
EP 70
EP 70 Stars on Stars
EP 71
EP 71 Mystery Film and the Detective on Screen
EP 72
EP 72 Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy
EP 73
EP 73 Superstars: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope
EP 74
EP 74 An Interview with Greer Garson
EP 75
EP 75 The Preston Sturges Story (1)
EP 76
EP 76 The Preston Sturges Story (2)
EP 77
EP 77 Two Film Directors: Ronald Neame and Richard Fleischer
EP 78
EP 78 A Portrait of Billy Wilder
EP 79
EP 79 Two Film Critics: Richard Schickel and David Robinson
EP 80
EP 80 Hollywood Portraits: Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky

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